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2021-05-09 20:00:00 Life & Arts Should You Go Back to the Office? It can be a complicated choice for those lucky enough to have a job, with mental health, physical fitness and professional prospects to consider
2021-05-09 19:00:00 Deals Plant-Tech Firm Benson Hill Going Public in $2 Billion SPAC Merger Deal’s expected cash proceeds of roughly $625 million will accelerate Benson Hill’s bid to bring down plant-based food costs, CEO says
2021-05-09 17:50:00 Opinion Department of National Child Care The Biden plan would cause costs to explode for little benefit.
2021-05-09 17:49:00 Opinion Times Square as ‘the O.K. Corral’ Cuomo’s analogy turns out to be apt, albeit for the wrong reason.
2021-05-09 17:48:00 Opinion Lockdowns Didn’t Stop Covid A new study finds more virus spread inside homes than work places.
2021-05-09 17:09:00 Business U.S. Pipeline Shutdown Exposes Cyber Threat to Energy Sector For years, security officials and experts have warned about the energy infrastructure’s susceptibility to cybercrime
2021-05-09 16:13:00 Opinion The Trade Two-Step as Part of Biden’s Diplomatic Dance The president can’t afford to ignore trade, lest friends in Asia conclude they should work with China.
2021-05-09 16:12:00 Opinion Biden May Make a Big Missed Steak The war on meat is no figment of the right-wing imagination.
2021-05-09 16:12:00 Opinion Patent Busting Won’t Help Vaccinate the World Faster The solution is to ease restrictions on exporting shots and build more production capacity.
2021-05-09 16:05:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: Lockdown Liberal Loners ‘When vaccinated adults refuse to see friends indoors, they’re working through the trauma of the past year.’
2021-05-09 16:02:00 Books ‘Metabolical’ Review: Is It Something I Ate? Doctors rarely urge lifestyle changes on their patients, especially changes in eating habits. Not all calories are the same.
2021-05-09 15:00:00 Markets The Venture-Capital Trends to Watch Those in the industry hope to sustain last year’s growth. But there are problems under the surface.
2021-05-09 15:00:00 Economy Economy Week Ahead: Inflation, Retail Sales, Industrial Production Look out for Chinese factory-gate prices, U.K. GDP, U.S. consumer prices
2021-05-09 14:58:00 Politics Biden Administration to Name Thea Lee to Top Labor Department Post Former AFL-CIO trade official will oversee the department’s international affairs division
2021-05-09 14:39:00 Economy Policy Makers Can’t Agree on Causes of Shortage of Workers Republicans say enhanced unemployment benefits keep workers on sidelines, Democrats point to child-care and chip shortages.
2021-05-09 13:56:00 World Some Countries Shift Guidance on AstraZeneca Vaccine Health officials say calculations around the benefits of receiving the vaccine keep changing
2021-05-09 13:27:00 Opinion The New Scientific Method: Identity Politics The National Academy of Sciences fights bias by explicitly introducing more of it.
2021-05-09 13:19:00 World Israeli Court Delays Ruling on Possible East Jerusalem Evictions Protests erupt over potential removal of Palestinian families, and police brace for more clashes
2021-05-09 12:55:00 World Chinese Rocket Returns to Earth Over Indian Ocean Re-entry eases days of anxiety that pieces would fall on densely populated areas
2021-05-09 12:36:00 Life & Arts Kentucky Derby Winner Medina Spirit Fails Drug Test The Derby champ faces disqualification if the test is confirmed. Trainer Bob Baffert denied wrongdoing and said he would enter the horse in the Preakness.
2021-05-09 12:33:00 Politics Infrastructure Talks Could Set Course of Biden Spending Plans President is hosting top lawmakers at the White House this week to discuss multitrillion-dollar proposals
2021-05-09 12:09:00 Opinion Is Liz Cheney the Republican Party’s Future? Liz Cheney should be lauded for her honesty, integrity and principled leadership.
2021-05-09 12:08:00 Opinion Republicans Must Attract More Young Voters As long as the Republican Party emphasizes social matters that many of the younger generation do not believe in, they will get fewer and fewer votes.
2021-05-09 12:02:00 Opinion Threat to the Courts Is From the Democrats While dark money may bankroll briefs from amici who generally have little sway with the court, the briefs from members of Congress trying to intimidate the court are much more problematic.
2021-05-09 12:00:00 Markets New SEC Chairman Sets Sights on Citadel Securities and Virtu Regulator questions payment for order flow, in which firms pay brokers such as Robinhood for opportunity to execute investors’ orders
2021-05-09 11:54:00 World Afghanistan Bomb Attack on Girls Highlights Threat to Women’s Education Kabul residents on Sunday buried dozens of schoolgirls killed by explosions outside a school
2021-05-09 11:47:00 Life & Arts Tokyo Tests Olympic Stadium With Little Time to Spare Nine athletes who live outside Japan were granted an exception and permitted to enter the country as organizers prepare for this summer’s Olympics.
2021-05-09 11:11:00 Life & Arts Extremely Wealthy Person Hosts Live Television Show Elon Musk appears on ‘Saturday Night Live,’ causing a surreal buzz on TV and in the crypto world
2021-05-09 11:03:00 Markets Yield-Starved Investors Snap Up Muni Bonds Investors have put $39 billion into municipal-debt funds so far this year, the most over that period since 2008
2021-05-09 10:35:00 Pro Cyber News How Can Companies Cope with Ransomware? A cyberattack on a U.S. pipeline operator has raised the profile of a form of malware in which computer systems are seized and attackers demand payment in return for unlocking the assets
2021-05-09 10:00:00 Politics Trump 2020 Election Lawsuits Lead to Requests to Discipline Lawyers Courts, licensing bodies consider whether attorneys abused the legal system in challenging vote results
2021-05-09 10:00:00 Economy Economists Disagree Over How Much Covid-19 ‘Herd Immunity’ Needed for Recovery Some say world’s economies could return to normal before such a critical mass of population is vaccinated or otherwise immune
2021-05-09 09:57:00 Tech ‘Fortnite’ Maker Targets Apple’s ‘Walled Garden’ in Courtroom Fight Over App Store Epic Games has raised questions about the safety of the App Store; one witness said it’s like ‘bringing a plastic butter knife to a gun fight’
2021-05-09 09:12:00 Markets The Future for Private-Equity Stocks Doesn’t Rest on Taxes Tax policies have often been a major driver for the industry. But the state of affairs today isn’t the same.
2021-05-09 09:00:00 Tech Apple AirTags vs. Tile: The Best Tool for Finding Your Lost Stuff Apple’s $29 tracker helps you find your lost stuff better than the competition does—but it makes it even harder to find your way out of Apple’s ecosystem
2021-05-09 09:00:00 Business Behind a Wharton School Program’s Collapse: Lawsuits and Unpaid Bills Elite business school sued U.S. affiliate of India-based education company, accusing it of misleading students, keeping tuition fees and violating its trademark
2021-05-09 08:59:00 Life & Arts Should Business-School Hopefuls Skip the GMATs? Some of Their Power May Be a Myth Some top companies have de-emphasized test scores—but not everyone got the message
2021-05-09 08:00:00 Life & Arts Summer Jobs for Teens Make a Comeback—But Not All Types It’s easy to find a gig as a lifeguard. Demand is high for work in child care and food service, too. But teens and young adults are finding more competition for paid internships.
2021-05-09 08:00:00 Tech Some Startups Went From Rescue PPP Loans to SPAC Windfalls Turnabout prompts disagreement among investors, executives over whether government loans should be repaid
2021-05-09 07:07:00 World As Covid-19 Surged, Indian Teachers Died After Working Elections Hundreds of thousands of government employees worked at polls in Uttar Pradesh after unions tried to have vote postponed
2021-05-09 05:33:00 Markets The Mortgage Boom Is Fading A decline in demand is fueling price wars across the mortgage industry, pushing down profits
2021-05-09 05:30:00 Business Higher Prices Leave Consumers Feeling the Pinch Rising costs for everything from fresh fruit to freezers are shaping purchase decisions
2021-05-09 02:56:00 Business Elon Musk on ‘SNL’ Says He Has Asperger’s, Jokes About Dogecoin Cryptocurrency was trading lower after the Tesla CEO called it ‘a hustle’ in a sketch
2021-05-08 22:42:00 Politics Bo, the Obama Family Dog Who Roamed White House, Dies The Portuguese water dog was a gift from Ted Kennedy
2021-05-08 19:26:00 World Scotland’s Independence Parties Gain Upper Hand as Pressure Builds on U.K. SNP’s Nicola Sturgeon pushes referendum plan with Green Party allies as Boris Johnson gains ground in England
2021-05-08 19:22:00 U.S. Shooting in Times Square Leaves Two Women and a Child Injured Saturday afternoon shooting in New York City adds to concerns about rising crime
2021-05-08 18:32:00 World Jerusalem Clashes Between Palestinians and Police Leave Dozens Injured Tensions are high ahead of a court ruling that could force the eviction of four Palestinian families
2021-05-08 17:03:00 Business Elon Musk, ‘SNL,’ Dogecoin, and Mother’s Day: The Making of a Comic Cocktail The Tesla chief has been cracking wise for years, often at the expense of rivals, short sellers and regulators. Sometimes, his jokes have backfired.
2021-05-08 15:35:00 World Afghanistan Bomb Attack Targeting Schoolgirls Kills at Least 30 People The attack on Shiite area amplifies concerns that Afghanistan will slip into sectarian violence as U.S. withdraws
2021-05-08 14:00:00 Real Estate Cosmetic Surgeons Are Building L.A. Megamansions, and the Results are Over-the-Top Celebrity dermatologist Dr. Alex Khadavi is listing his 21,000-square-foot Bel-Air property, which includes space to show off your NFT artwork, as well as a DJ booth, an outdoor tequila bar and a car museum
2021-05-08 13:32:00 World EU Tepid on Biden Call to Waive Intellectual Property Rights for Covid-19 Vaccines Bloc says exporting more doses would aid struggling nations faster
2021-05-08 12:01:00 Murders Are Rising the Most in a Few Isolated Precincts of Major Cities A handful of neighborhoods with histories of violence are the primary source of a recent surge in killings in Chicago, New York and elsewhere
2021-05-08 12:00:00 Markets What Happens to Stocks and Cryptocurrencies When the Fed Stops Raining Money? An unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimulus led by the Federal Reserve is fueling a new investor euphoria. Is this a new bubble? And when could it burst?
2021-05-08 12:00:00 Business The NFT Origin Story, Starring Digital Cats A few years ago, it could be difficult to find someone to accept a free NFT; today, the same digital tchotchke might fetch tens of thousands
2021-05-08 12:00:00 Life & Arts A Real Vacation a Few Neighborhoods Away Her wings clipped during the pandemic, a New Yorker finds a sweetly ‘madcap’ seaside destination just a ferry (or bike) ride from home
2021-05-08 11:06:00 Markets What Is a ‘Market Breakout?’ It means that an asset has hit a level unseen for some time. One could be coming for crude-oil futures.
2021-05-08 11:00:00 Tech Epic Games vs. Apple Trial, Week One: Everything You Need to Know Lawyers for the ‘Fortnite’ game creator laid the groundwork for its antitrust claims against the iPhone maker, alleging uneven treatment of app submissions and updates
2021-05-08 10:00:00 U.S. New York City Government Workers Offered Travel Buddies Municipal employees who feel unsafe taking the subway to their offices can sign up for a commuting partner under a new program
2021-05-08 09:26:00 Business Cyberattack Forces Closure of Largest U.S. Refined-Fuel Pipeline Operator of the Colonial Pipeline, the leading fuel conduit to the East Coast, said it had temporarily halted operations after discovering the threat Friday
2021-05-08 09:00:00 Tech How to Protect Kids’ Ears From Headphone-Related Hearing Loss With children listening on devices for longer hours, there are steps parents can take to lower the volume and safeguard hearing health
2021-05-08 09:00:00 Arts Sotheby’s, Christie’s Expect to Sell $1 Billion in Art at Spring Auctions Auctions will test collectors’ appetites for art trophies; Sotheby’s will start letting some people bid in person.
2021-05-08 09:00:00 Markets Want to Invest in Space? Try These ETFs As the options expand, investors can choose from an array of approaches
2021-05-08 08:00:00 Life & Arts Were the Glory Days of Airport Style Then—Or Now? Celebrities from Elizabeth Taylor in the 1950s to Lisa of Blackpink and BTS in 2020 have brought high fashion to the airport. Though the pandemic paused that peacocking, it shows signs of returning.
2021-05-08 07:00:00 Art Review American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Enlarging the Canon, Without Polemics The institution’s new Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Galleries recount a complicated, often difficult history, while keeping the art front and center.
2021-05-08 07:00:00 Markets Many Women of Color Use Social Media, Peers for Investment Advice As financial advice becomes popular on social-media platforms, some women say they don’t need an adviser
2021-05-08 06:03:00 Business Diaper Prices Are Still Getting a Bump From Texas Freeze Acrylic acid, the liquid that makes diapers absorbent, remains in short supply after February storm
2021-05-08 06:00:00 Life & Arts A Full-Body Workout to Shake Up Your Exercise Routine at Home Did your fitness regimen fall into a winter rut? A Mayo Clinic expert offers spring fitness ideas for the upper body, lower body, core and cardio.
2021-05-08 05:30:00 Business Cannabis Goes Corporate: Lobbyists, Unions Seek to Shape Marijuana Industry Lobbying on federal marijuana policy picked up in the first quarter of 2021, as banks and tobacco and alcohol companies begin to weigh in
2021-05-08 05:30:00 Markets Should Banks Look for Customers in Schools? Some Say No Australian states want to end programs that reward students for opening accounts and saving money
2021-05-08 05:30:00 Business Why DoorDash and Uber Eats Delivery Is Costing You More Apps are shifting some costs to customers; restaurants are raising prices on apps and offering cheaper direct orders
2021-05-07 18:49:00 CIO Journal JPMorgan Names Two CIOs James Reid, tech chief for the bank’s new employee experience unit, is the company’s first Black CIO
2021-05-07 18:47:00 U.S. Justice Department Proposes Rule to Curb Spread of ‘Ghost Guns’ Agency says it recovered more than 23,000 unmarked firearms from potential crime scenes from 2016 to 2020
2021-05-07 18:44:00 Markets Moderna, Peloton, Microsoft: Stocks That Defined the Week Here are seven major companies whose stocks moved on the week’s news
2021-05-07 18:27:00 Opinion The Supply-Side Jobs Slowdown When you pay people not to work, guess what? Many people don’t.
2021-05-07 18:25:00 Opinion Southlake Says No to Woke Education A parent revolt against critical-race theory in the K-12 classroom.
2021-05-07 18:20:00 Opinion Facebook’s Book-Banning Blueprint The company throttles a Journal review on climate science.
2021-05-07 18:17:00 Opinion Britain’s Political Realignment The Tories continue to gain in the former Labour heartland.
2021-05-07 18:01:00 Business AstraZeneca Weighs Seeking Full U.S. Approval for Covid Shot, Skipping Emergency-Use Application British drugmaker faces challenges gathering data; may wait to apply for full approval by the FDA, which takes longer
2021-05-07 17:54:00 Politics Police-Overhaul Bill Draws Bipartisan Agreement on Key Issues Congressional aides reach compromise on military equipment, no-knock warrants and chokeholds; differences remain on prosecution and liability of individual police officers
2021-05-07 17:46:00 Opinion The Courage of the Apolitical CEO A small software firm shows leadership when many execs (whatever their PR says) act from fear.
2021-05-07 17:46:00 Opinion Family Policy Shouldn’t Penalize Married and Stay-at-Home Parents To leave behind a plan that lasts, Biden needs to reach across the aisle.
2021-05-07 17:45:00 Opinion Washington Has No Authority to Dictate State Taxes Ohio and 20 others are suing to challenge an unconstitutional poison pill in the Covid relief law.
2021-05-07 17:42:00 Art Review At the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Frank Gehry’s Renovation Goes Beneath the Surface The institution had no choice but to expand downward in an impressive $233 million project.
2021-05-07 17:34:00 U.S. European Allies Ask U.S. to Slow Afghan Withdrawal, Officials Say Turkey says it may leave job of security at Kabul airport, adding to difficulties
2021-05-07 17:21:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Bombardier Says U.S. DOJ Has Requested Information on Indonesian Jet Deals The transactions, which took place around a decade ago, were already under investigation by U.K. authorities for alleged bribery and corruption
2021-05-07 17:10:00 Business Unemployment Benefits Become Target Amid Hiring Difficulty Some states, business leaders call for cuts in supplement aid; Yellen says benefits aren’t factor in economic picture
2021-05-07 17:06:00 CIO Journal ServiceNow CIO Looks to Retain Lockdown Lessons in Hybrid Work Plans Certain cultural changes brought on by the pandemic need to be kept in the new hybrid mode, says Chris Bedi
2021-05-07 17:05:00 Pro Bankruptcy Hedge-Fund Founder Kamensky Gets Prison Sentence for Fraud Tied to Neiman Bankruptcy Marble Ridge Capital founder Dan Kamensky had asked for probation and community service instead of prison time
2021-05-07 16:50:00 World Mexico Protests U.S. Funding of Civic Group Ahead of Meeting With Vice President Harris In diplomatic note, Mexico says the funding interferes in domestic affairs
2021-05-07 16:43:00 Life & Arts What We’ve Lost in Rejecting the Sabbath Setting aside one day a week for rest and prayer used to be an American tradition. In an age of constant activity, we need it more than ever.
2021-05-07 16:39:00 Opinion China, Fauci and the Origins of Covid Did the virus come from a Chinese lab funded by the celebrated doctor’s U.S. government institute?
2021-05-07 16:37:00 Opinion Comparing Covid With Asian Flu of the ’50s Niall Ferguson’s case for seeing the mid-20th century American response as wiser rests on an apples-versus-oranges assertion that the human cost this time was only 40% worse in years of life lost.
2021-05-07 16:36:00 Opinion Jeopardy! Hysteria Shows Growing Disunity What would the progressives accuse a deaf person of when he or she is merely using American Sign Language to sign the number “nine.”
2021-05-07 16:35:00 Opinion Manage Farming Incentives More Effectively Congress should make major reforms to agriculture and climate policy.
2021-05-07 16:31:00 Books ‘Finding the Mother Tree’ Review: Seeing the Forest Trees share resources through fungi networks, support seedlings and are generous even in death.
2021-05-07 16:27:00 Markets If Crypto Crashes Tomorrow, It’s No Big Deal. In Five Years, It Might Be. Bitcoin, dogecoin, ether and other cryptocurrencies are now worth about $2 trillion. But the world of crypto is still small, and stands apart from the rest of the economy.
2021-05-07 16:08:00 Masterpiece Defending the Beauty of Numbers G.H. Hardy’s ‘A Mathematician’s Apology’ has been called ‘the best account of what it is like to be a creative artist.’
2021-05-07 15:56:00 U.S. Federal Grand Jury Indicts Former Minneapolis Police Officers in George Floyd Killing Derek Chauvin and three other ex-officers are charged with violating Floyd’s constitutional rights
2021-05-07 15:54:00 Markets Treasury Yields Rebound After Early Drop Labor Department says economy added 266,000 jobs in April, well short of what economists had anticipated
2021-05-07 15:52:00 Books What to Read This Week The secrets of the forest, a double agent’s last confession, Paul Theroux’s surfing tale, a friendly pack of dog stories and more.
2021-05-07 15:49:00 Books Politics: Stories vs. Résumés Memoirs from Tim Scott, Carl Levin and Mazie K. Hirono offer facts—and filler.
2021-05-07 15:04:00 Business U.S. Support for Patent Waiver Unlikely to Cost Covid-19 Vaccine Makers in Short Term Biden administration’s move doesn’t affect vaccine makers’ deals to supply billions of dollars in doses, but could have longer-term consequences
2021-05-07 15:02:00 Business Grocers, Restaurants to Suppliers: Hurry Up, Make More Walmart, Sysco and others implement penalties for late or incomplete orders, adding pressure to food makers dealing with labor and ingredient shortages
2021-05-07 14:47:00 World Indian States Impose Curbs on Work, Travel to Help Slow Covid-19 Surge National lockdown ‘not on the cards,’ as government fears further damage to an already ailing economy
2021-05-07 14:39:00 World WHO Endorses China’s Covid-19 Vaccine Sinopharm International health body says it will ‘rapidly accelerate Covid-19 vaccine access for countries’ in the developing world
2021-05-07 14:34:00 Opinion A Black Life Lost in Seattle’s No-Cop Zone Horace Lorenzo Anderson Jr. was gunned down in the ‘occupied’ area. His parents now seek justice.
2021-05-07 14:33:00 Opinion The Rhodes Scholarship Turns Against Its Legacy of Excellence It rejects its civilizing mission as ‘obsolete’ and favors the trendy notion of ‘radical inclusion.’
2021-05-07 13:47:00 Markets Square’s Edge Still Comes from Sellers The Cash App business may be getting a lot of the attention right now, but linking up the app with a growing seller business is a big opportunity
2021-05-07 13:46:00 Politics Global Order in Jeopardy, Blinken Tells U.N., Citing Nationalism, Repression Russian and Chinese officials fire back, blaming the U.S. and the West during virtual gathering
2021-05-07 13:44:00 Business DraftKings Reports Higher Revenue, Costs as It Bets on Growth Sports-betting platform posts big year-over-year gains in revenue and user base, benefiting from rollout in more states
2021-05-07 13:17:00 U.S. Voting-Rules Bill Passes Texas House Legislation, pushed by GOP, bars public officials from distributing applications for mail-in ballots, empowers partisan poll watchers
2021-05-07 12:28:00 CFO Journal Accounting Rules for Energy Tax Credits Divide Utilities, Solar Producers Some utilities, including Duke Energy Corp., say changing normalization rules could spur more investments in clean energy
2021-05-07 11:59:00 Life & Arts Democracy’s Digital Defenses New tools, many developed by the private sector, have the potential to thwart surveillance and disinformation by authoritarian governments.
2021-05-07 11:45:00 Life & Arts How to Get the Best Local Produce Delivered to Your Door: A Tech-Savvy Shopper’s Guide Want your heirloom carrots, grass-fed beef and artisan cheese straight from the farm—minus the schlep to the market? The technology is finally there.
2021-05-07 11:42:00 Markets Don’t Freak Out (Yet) About Jobs There are many moving parts and explanations for the surprisingly weak employment report; persistent weakness could be cause for real concern
2021-05-07 11:31:00 Books ‘The House of Fragile Things’ Review: Forever Outsiders Neither their wealth, prominence nor philanthropy could save these French Jews from harm.
2021-05-07 11:28:00 Markets Yale Names Alexander Banker as Interim Endowment Head Longtime endowment chief David Swensen died on Wednesday
2021-05-07 11:06:00 Markets Want to Get Rich Quick? Who Can Stop You? A good financial adviser can keep you from getting caught up in the moment. A bad one may be hooked by the excitement, too.
2021-05-07 11:00:00 Tech Amazon and Apple Built Vast Wireless Networks Using Your Devices. Here’s How They Work. Apple’s iPhone-powered Find My network and Amazon’s Sidewalk network—coming soon to all newer Echo devices—are platforms in their own right, capable of supporting billions of connected devices
2021-05-07 10:40:00 U.S. Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Won’t Seek Re-election Second Black female mayor of Atlanta was among Biden’s earliest endorsers
2021-05-07 10:22:00 Books ‘Spies, Lies and Exile’ Review: Memories of a Mole George Blake’s revelations to the Soviets were more damaging than any of the Cambridge Five.
2021-05-07 10:20:00 Business Cinemark, Studios Reach Deals on How Movies Are Shown as Theaters Reopen Agreements with top Hollywood studios outline how long releases play exclusively on big screens before hitting streaming platforms
2021-05-07 09:57:00 Books ‘Gallery of Clouds’ Review: Afloat in a Book The pastoral mode recognizes that reading is like wandering, because it takes us to a place we’ve never been.
2021-05-07 09:47:00 Books Children’s Books: Doggy Delights Loyal, inquisitive furry friends star in these books.
2021-05-07 09:38:00 Markets NYSE to Delist Chinese Telecoms Carriers After Rejecting Appeals Delistings to follow Trump-era investment ban and Biden-era review
2021-05-07 09:28:00 Markets Dogecoin and Other Cryptocurrencies Have Investors Wondering Whether It’s Too Late to Buy While online excitement can fuel price gains, many industry professionals say meme coins can be even more speculative than traditional crypto assets
2021-05-07 09:05:00 Life & Arts My ‘Octopus Teacher’ Is Not an Octopus An odd film about a man and a cephalopod wins an Oscar, and offers a helpful message about the need to live in the moment
2021-05-07 09:00:00 Life & Arts The New York Mets’ $341 Million Slump Francisco Lindor signed a 10-year extension to be the face of the team. Instead, he’s having the worst hitting stretch of his career.
2021-05-07 09:00:00 Politics Can the GOP Win in the Suburbs Again? Virginia Offers Early Test Republicans will pick a candidate for governor Saturday who they hope can reverse the party’s fortunes in the state
2021-05-07 08:31:00 World ‘Scared or Prepared?’: Inside Sweden’s Effort to Steel Its Citizens Against Threats From Russia Scandinavian country is reviving its Cold War-era ‘Total Defense’ plans to prepare for crises from cyberattacks to war
2021-05-07 08:24:00 Markets California’s Program for Those With No Retirement Plan Defeats Court Challenge Ruling seen weakening opposition to further adoption of state-run savings plans, which 13 states and two cities have approved
2021-05-07 08:00:00 World Pandemic Tarnishes China’s North, Strengthens Southern Swing for Jobs The country’s north-south divide in jobs and housing is sharpening
2021-05-07 08:00:00 Real Estate The 7 Most Impractical But Popular Pieces of Furniture We asked interior designers to name sought after—or even famous—pieces of furniture that are nevertheless really hard to live with
2021-05-07 07:31:00 World Chinese Consumers Are Opening Their Wallets Again The country’s exports and imports also rose in April from a year earlier
2021-05-07 07:03:00 Markets A Bill Is Coming Due for Greener Offices Energy-inefficient buildings will need to be upgraded if countries are to meet net-zero commitments. Signs that landlords can claw back the cost are mixed.
2021-05-07 07:00:00 Politics Biden Tax Plan Takes Aim at Trump-Era Investment Incentive Administration aims to repeal a tax break tied to foreign sales by U.S. companies
2021-05-07 06:51:00 Markets Bets on Economic Rebound Push Copper Prices to Record High Industrial-metal prices have marched higher for over a year, one reason why some investors are girding for higher inflation
2021-05-07 06:04:00 Real Estate Your Mirror Should Be Doing More Want to add instant energy to your selfies and your décor? Hang one of the latest wave of wriggly framed mirrors designers are pitching to clients, inspired by the Ultrafragola mirror of the 1970s.
2021-05-07 06:00:00 Markets The Global House Price Boom Could Haunt the Recovery From Covid-19 House prices around the world have rallied through the economic turmoil. Growing leverage and decreasing affordability raise both financial and political risks.
2021-05-07 06:00:00 CMO Today Spring TV Ad-Sales Season Expected to Show Rebound From 2020, More Spending on Streaming Ad-supported streaming services are set to attract more advertising dollars as marketers face limited supply of commercials on broadcast and cable channels
2021-05-07 05:33:00 Markets Grab’s Huge SPAC Merger Heralds Asia’s Next Tech Boom The Southeast Asian ride-hailing and delivery app is going public in the U.S. at a $40 billion valuation and others look likely to follow suit
2021-05-07 05:33:00 Elon Musk’s Starbase Mission Meets Resistance in Texas Border Town
2021-05-07 05:30:00 Markets From Dutch Tulips to Internet Stocks, Bubbles Often Burst Long before SPACs and NFTs, investors clamored for everything from exotic bulbs to Pets.com. What history shows is that an inventive corner of the financial world can turn into a mania that attracts swindlers and wipes out investors.
2021-05-07 05:30:00 Central Banks Commentary Derby’s Take: Firm Measurements of Fed’s Bond Buying Success Prove Elusive
2021-05-07 05:30:00 State Data Privacy Bills Stumble Bills in Florida and Washington stalled in part over consumers’ ability to sue companies
2021-05-07 05:30:00 U.S. D.C. Statehood: What the Constitution Says Admissions clause has few stipulations for any area that wants to become a state
2021-05-07 05:30:00 Business Covid-19 Vaccines Are Wasted as Special Syringes Run Short States and vaccinators say they have too few ‘low-dead-space’ syringes to extract all Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech doses from vials
2021-05-07 05:30:00 Economy Strong Expected Job Growth in April Set to Propel Economy Economists forecast that a million jobs were created last month following 6.4% growth in first quarter
2021-05-07 05:30:00 Politics TSA Overhaul Poses a Labor Test for Biden, Democrats Legislation to alter compensation and labor rights at TSA is likely to be part of the House version of Biden’s infrastructure package
2021-05-07 05:30:00 Markets ‘Where Is My Tax Refund?’ Millions of Americans Are Waiting for the IRS to Pay Up The IRS is grappling with unprecedented delays caused by the pandemic and late changes to the law. ‘This has been a challenging year.’
2021-05-07 05:08:00 U.S. Texas Lawmakers Pass Election Bill as Florida Governor Signs Its Own Into Law Republicans say proposed legislation would enhance election security, while Democrats say it would restrict voting access
2021-05-07 05:01:00 Markets U.S. Stock Futures Pause Ahead of Jobs Data Dow Jones Industrial Average futures hold steady after the blue-chips index notched a closing record on Thursday
2021-05-07 04:10:00 Markets Barclays Activist Investor Edward Bramson Sells Entire Stake Bramson unsuccessfully pushed Chief Executive Jes Staley to scale back Barclays’s investment banking operations
2021-05-06 23:39:00 Politics FEC Decides Not to Review Trump’s Role in Stormy Daniels’s Payments The Federal Election Commission didn’t have enough votes to break a tie between Republicans and Democrats
2021-05-06 20:32:00 Business Roku Reports 79% Jump in Revenue in Latest Quarter Streaming-media company releases better-than-expected outlook for current quarter
2021-05-06 20:23:00 Business News Corp Revenue Rises on Real Estate and Publishing Growth HarperCollins book unit boosted by ‘Bridgerton’ sales; The Wall Street Journal adds about 170,000 digital subscribers
2021-05-06 20:06:00 Business Walmart Deal Shows Expansion in Telehealth, New Front With Amazon Retail giant’s move into virtual health follows Amazon’s healthcare expansion
2021-05-06 20:01:00 World David Swensen, Yale Endowment Chief Who Changed the Course of Institutional Investing, Dies at 67 Through an embrace of diversification, Swensen grew university’s endowment from $1 billion in 1985 to $31.2 billion in 2020
2021-05-06 19:33:00 Markets Cash App Is King at Square The digital wallet’s gross profit more than doubled in the first quarter, besting Square’s seller business
2021-05-06 19:11:00 Opinion Liz Cheney Confronts a House of Cowards House Republicans are about to demonstrate they can’t handle the truth about 2020 and Jan. 6.
2021-05-06 18:55:00 Business Peloton Cuts Forecast Due to Treadmill Recall Sales more than doubled and wait times fell, but the company expects to take a $165 million hit in the fourth quarter
2021-05-06 18:54:00 Opinion Biden’s Vaccine IP Debacle His patent heist is a blow to the Covid fight and U.S. biotech.
2021-05-06 18:52:00 Opinion The Capital-Gains Revenue Illusion House Democrats are already asking for death-tax exceptions.
2021-05-06 18:51:00 CFO Journal PayPal Wants More Customers to Pay Using Crypto Assets But the company doesn’t plan to invest its corporate cash into these assets yet, the CFO says
2021-05-06 18:50:00 Opinion Another Judge Evicts the CDC Health bureaucrats can’t lawfully ban evictions, but do politicians care?
2021-05-06 18:47:00 Opinion Europe Starts to Come Around on China Putting business first and alienating the U.S. has backfired.
2021-05-06 18:46:00 Markets Peloton Is No Nike Connected-fitness company’s shares have traded on a fantasy that might not stand the test of time
2021-05-06 18:40:00 U.S. Elizabeth Holmes Fights to Shield Wealth From Jury Theranos founder’s lawyers argue with prosecutors over relevance of her lifestyle in upcoming criminal fraud trial
2021-05-06 18:35:00 Business Energy Transfer Reaps $2.4 Billion Windfall From Texas Freeze Pipeline operator benefited from surging natural gas prices during the February storm
2021-05-06 18:35:00 Opinion End Mask Mandates to Spur Vaccination It’s your responsibility to protect yourself by getting your shots.
2021-05-06 18:34:00 Opinion In Praise of Maternal Guilt It’s a ‘signal feeling,’ which you should heed, not suppress.
2021-05-06 18:34:00 Opinion FTC Imperils a Cancer Breakthrough Illumina spun off Grail to develop a test for 50 forms of the disease. Regulators seek to block our reunion.
2021-05-06 18:33:00 Opinion President Joe Sanders The vaccine patent decision is the latest example of Biden’s far-left governance.
2021-05-06 18:32:00 Books ‘Seed to Dust’ Review: Shadows in the Garden The author of ‘How to Catch a Mole’ returns with autumnal meditations on aging, change and a life lived with fingers in the soil.
2021-05-06 18:32:00 Opinion Religious Freedom and Sacred Land A copper-mining plan threatens an Apache site—and the liberty of all Americans.
2021-05-06 18:30:00 Markets SEC to Explore Rules for Apps That ‘Gamify’ Trading, New Chairman Says Regulator studying potential changes after GameStop frenzy, Gensler tells lawmakers
2021-05-06 18:22:00 Life & Arts ‘Care Package’: Aid in a Box, From Wartime to Summer Camp It’s the 75th anniversary of a U.S. program to help postwar Europe, but now the packages are more likely to be goodies from attentive parents
2021-05-06 18:13:00 Television Review ‘The Crime of the Century’ Review: Manufacturing the Opioid Epidemic Alex Gibney’s documentary on HBO offers new insights into Purdue Pharma and the country’s opioid crisis.
2021-05-06 17:33:00 Texas Lawmakers Debate Legislation to Cover Energy Crisis Costs Some advocates say a broad financial rescue bill is needed to keep more power retailers from failing, while others urge more limited legislation
2021-05-06 17:21:00 Life & Arts The Winning Ways of Moving the Troops Since the siege of Troy, getting armed forces into battle zones quickly and efficiently has made a decisive difference in warfare
2021-05-06 17:21:00 Economy Fed Says Covid Is Major Financial Risk, Asset Prices Vulnerable to ‘Significant Declines’ Central bank’s financial stability report says banks remain well capitalized and leverage is low among broker-dealers
2021-05-06 17:20:00 Film Review ‘The Boy From Medellín’ Review: Coming Home and Growing Up As he prepares for a solo concert in his hometown, reggaeton star J. Balvin faces pressure to use his voice to influence Colombian politics in Matthew Heineman’s documentary.
2021-05-06 17:14:00 Television Review ‘Uncle Vanya’ Review: A Chekhov Classic Now Full of Surprises On PBS’s ‘Great Performances,’ Richard Armitage and Toby Jones lead the cast in a riveting West End production adapted by Conor McPherson.
2021-05-06 17:12:00 Film Review ‘Here Today’ Review: What’s So Funny? Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish star as a TV comedy writer with dementia and his unlikely guardian angel.
2021-05-06 17:03:00 Business AMC Controls More of Movie-Theater Market as U.S. Reopens, CEO Says Nearly 40% of North American theaters remain closed, suggesting many American cinemas might have shut down permanently
2021-05-06 16:55:00 Markets Stocks Stage Late Rally; Dow Hits Record Nasdaq Composite snaps four-session losing streak as tech shares rebound
2021-05-06 16:43:00 World Covid-19 Vaccine Patent Waivers Could Take Months to Benefit Developing Nations Lengthy international negotiations and technological challenges mean countries wouldn’t immediately get relief
2021-05-06 16:34:00 CMO Today Consumers Are More Likely to Use or Drop Brands Based on Racial Justice Response, Survey Finds CEOs and employers are seen as leading more than marketers and brands in making change on racial issues, a new survey suggests
2021-05-06 16:19:00 Business AIG’s Profit Rises on Premium Growth, Investment Gains Results mark turnaround for insurer’s property-and-casualty unit
2021-05-06 16:03:00 Life & Arts 2021 Ford Bronco Sport: A Compact SUV That Looks a Lot Like the Big Bronco The small SUV is built on the same platform as the Escape but has a look that evokes the legendary Bronco, which Ford is reintroducing this summer
2021-05-06 16:01:00 Books Bestselling Books Week Ended May 1 With data from NPD BookScan
2021-05-06 15:47:00 World U.K. Navy Ships Sent to Island of Jersey in Standoff With French Fishermen French boats gathered in protest in latest sign of post-Brexit tensions
2021-05-06 15:39:00 Fed’s Kaplan Ready to Talk About Paring Back Bond Buying The Dallas Fed president says the economy is rebounding faster than he expected
2021-05-06 15:38:00 Politics Elise Stefanik Embraces GOP’s Pro-Trump Wing in Leadership Campaign New York congresswoman is seeking to succeed Liz Cheney, who has criticized former president
2021-05-06 15:14:00 Markets How to Gauge the Financial Health of an Assisted-Living Facility You don’t want to move into a retirement home that’s about to go bankrupt
2021-05-06 15:12:00 Life & Arts Skinny Jeans, Move Over: Overalls Are Here (Again) As the desire for comfort is buckling denim dungarees back into style, we examine the garment’s layered all-American past
2021-05-06 14:32:00 Life & Arts Should You Wear Socks With Loafers? Some men insist going sockless results in sweaty, sickening feet. Others contend that socks are bulky and uncool. With the help of a podiatrist, we argue both sides of this decades-old debate.
2021-05-06 14:10:00 Politics Biden Outlines Plan to Preserve More Wilderness President’s plan would emphasize local, private conservation efforts
2021-05-06 14:04:00 Opinion What ‘Right to Repair’ Limits Are Prudent? Independent servicers are very often used by the manufacturers who handle multimodality servicing programs for hospitals.
2021-05-06 14:03:00 Opinion Use the China Lens to View Woke Companies The most salient feature distinguishing market capitalism from communism is that market capitalism depends on the predictable rule of law.
2021-05-06 14:02:00 Opinion On Reviving Religion for Non-Orthodox Jews Most American Jews operate by personal choice and need to be given a reason to choose Judaism.
2021-05-06 13:48:00 Real Estate Your Grandma’s Plates Are in Demand Among grandmillennials and other creative thinkers, a mix-and-match aesthetic is giving heirloom-quality porcelain—a bargain secondhand—buzzy new appeal
2021-05-06 13:47:00 U.S. FCC’s Net-Neutrality Proposal Marred by Millions of Fake Comments More than 80% of the 22 million comments weren’t real, New York attorney general’s report finds
2021-05-06 13:37:00 Markets With Wayfair, Look Past the Lockdown Boom Wayfair had an easy first quarter but some wobbliness can be expected going forward
2021-05-06 13:10:00 Politics Farm-District Democrats Raise Caution Flag on Capital-Gains Tax Plan Lawmakers in closely divided House seek assurances that protections for farm families will be included in final legislation
2021-05-06 12:55:00 Experience Report Your Call May Be Recorded (and Analyzed by a Bot) Companies try tools that detect callers’ emotions, write scripts in real-time and pair customers with a suitable agent
2021-05-06 12:40:00 Opinion Worst Worker Shortage Ever The latest NFIB employment report shows firms hiring but few people willing to be hired.
2021-05-06 12:38:00 World India’s Diaspora Aids Families Caught in Covid-19 ‘Medical War Zone’ Americans of Indian heritage search for supplies for loved ones back home as Indian hospitals lack beds, oxygen and medicine
2021-05-06 12:29:00 Life & Arts These Cute, Comfortable Shoes Are Spring’s Sneaker Alternative Transition from quarantine slippers and trainers to fancier footwear with these chic, elasticized ballet flats
2021-05-06 12:26:00 Opinion The Corporate Tax and American Sovereignty European states have long ceded authority to a transnational technocratic elite. The U.S. knew better.
2021-05-06 12:25:00 Opinion Biden’s $6 Trillion Plan for Permanent Culture War Perpetual public largess corrupts politics, focusing it on who’s a good enough citizen to deserve the dole.
2021-05-06 12:16:00 Business NBCUniversal Explores Streaming Its Sports Channels or Selling Them Off Company scrapped plans to stream NBC Sports Philadelphia on Peacock over fears of complicating broader streaming strategy
2021-05-06 12:14:00 Media & Marketing The Athletic Halts Merger Talks With Axios, Eyes New York Times Sports-media outlet’s discussions with Axios are no longer active but New York Times Co. seen as leading contender for tie-up
2021-05-06 11:56:00 Economy U.S. Unemployment Claims Reach New Covid-19 Pandemic Low New filings fell below 500,000 last week for first time since pandemic took hold as layoffs ease and hiring accelerates
2021-05-06 11:15:00 Tech Trump Is Still Banned on YouTube. Now the Clock Is Ticking. The video-sharing giant says it is continuing to monitor threat of violence in wake of Jan. 6 Capitol riot
2021-05-06 11:08:00 Markets It Isn’t a New Era for Productivity Yet Productivity gains have more to do with the early stages of economic recovery than your work-from-home setup
2021-05-06 11:05:00 Real Estate Kauai Real Estate Is So Hot Right Now, Buyers Are Snapping Up Homes Sight Unseen The Hawaiian island has become a major destination for primary and secondary homeowners during the coronavirus pandemic
2021-05-06 11:05:00 Economy Millions Are Unemployed. Why Can’t Companies Find Workers? Among the reasons potential workers are holding back: fear of getting Covid, lack of child care and enhanced unemployment benefits
2021-05-06 10:21:00 Real Estate Biden Plan Would Limit Longstanding Tax Break Used by Farmers Curb on provision allowing landowners to defer payment of capital-gains levies is seen as another burden on agriculture
2021-05-06 10:13:00 Business Bud Brewer Taps U.S. Chief as New CEO AB InBev says Michel Doukeris will replace longtime CEO Carlos Brito as the beer giant seeks to reinvigorate U.S. sales
2021-05-06 09:09:00 Markets Biden’s Vaccine Patent Move: Watch Out for Side Effects Temporary patent waiver backed by Biden administration won’t impact short-term profits, but Wall Street should be paying close attention
2021-05-06 09:00:00 Markets BlackRock at Odds With Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Over Disclosures Shareholder proposals highlight tensions between asset managers promoting ESG disclosures and executives who are pushing back
2021-05-06 08:00:00 World German Catholic Priests Defy Pope Francis With Public Blessings of Gay Couples Planned protest ceremonies escalate struggle between German progressives and the Vatican
2021-05-06 08:00:00 Business Chicken Shortage Sends Prices Soaring, and Restaurants Can’t Keep Up Spicy sandwiches, hot wings and a labor crunch push poultry prices to records
2021-05-06 08:00:00 Companies Get Creative in Hunt for AI Talent Businesses are sponsoring AI award programs, holding ‘datathons’ and scouting software development contests
2021-05-06 08:00:00 Politics With Trump Decision, Facebook’s Problems Don’t Get Any Easier Our executive Washington editor and tech columnist discuss news that the ban of the former president would be upheld—but would require further explanation
2021-05-06 06:03:00 Markets Pandemic Payment Habits Are Looking Sticky PayPal is so far seeing little to suggest that consumers’ digital-spending ways will change once economies and stores reopen further
2021-05-06 06:00:00 Deals KKR to Invest in Charter Next Generation, Joining Leonard Green Deal values specialty-films maker at more than $4 billion; private-equity firms will be equal owners
2021-05-06 05:30:00 Pro Bankruptcy Financial Advisers Turn From the Business of Restructuring as Bankruptcies Fall Investment banks and financial advisers are looking to acquisitions and SPACs to make up for a drop-off in restructuring work
2021-05-06 05:30:00 U.S. Covid-19 Vaccines vs. Infections Vaccination rates in some states have reached levels that appear to be a factor in tamping down the virus
2021-05-06 05:30:00 Markets Ant Looks to Revamp a Controversial Business Without Sparking an Outcry Company needs to turn its ‘mutual-aid’ service, a type of crowdfunded medical coverage with nearly 91 million members, into a regulated business
2021-05-06 05:30:00 Data Scraping in EU Regulators’ Sights As Spain Orders Equifax to Delete Information Collecting personal data from public sources without individuals’ consent violates privacy law, regulator says
2021-05-06 05:30:00 Markets Investors Bet on Dollar’s Slow Downward Drift Hedge funds, asset managers scoop up derivatives that pay off when the dollar declines slowly or stays in a narrow range
2021-05-06 05:29:00 Markets Dogecoin’s 12,000% Rally Spurs Hunt for Next Crypto Winner Individual investors are betting that cheaper alternatives to bitcoin and dogecoin will skyrocket in price and make them money
2021-05-06 03:17:00 Markets A Global Operation Warp Speed Is Needed to Unlock World-Wide Vaccine Production Abandoning intellectual-property protections for Covid-19 vaccines is a statement of intent, but far more international collaboration is required to accelerate production globally
2021-05-05 20:46:00 Risk & Compliance Journal How Adobe’s Ethics Committee Helps Manage AI Bias A diverse selection of voices can help companies spot potential problems
2021-05-05 20:24:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Zoom Beefed Up Compliance Team During Pandemic The videoconferencing company formalized risk and ethics functions with the hiring of its first chief compliance officer last year
2021-05-05 20:00:00 Audax Collects $1.85 Billion for New Debt Fund The mezzanine-focused fund is more than 50% larger than its predecessor
2021-05-05 19:46:00 Opinion Biden’s Vaccine Patent Theft Who will invest in future therapies when the White House helps other governments steal?
2021-05-05 19:43:00 Markets Uber’s Speed Could Limit Lyft Ride-hailing companies’ recovery is stalling in some places, but Uber appears to be pulling ahead
2021-05-05 19:37:00 CFO Journal GoDaddy Taps Big Four Partner for CFO Job Mark McCaffrey most recently ran PwC’s U.S. technology, media and telecom sector
2021-05-05 19:28:00 Politics McConnell Says ‘100%’ of His Focus Is on Blocking Biden Agenda Senate GOP leader’s remarks come as Democrats and Republicans have focused on possible infrastructure deal but see few prospects elsewhere
2021-05-05 19:19:00 Business SpaceX Starship Lands on Fifth Attempt Elon Musk’s venture wants to prepare vehicles for eventual missions to Mars
2021-05-05 19:12:00 Pro Bankruptcy Beyond Bankruptcy Toys ‘R’ Us Creditors Call for Jury Trial on Executive Stay Pay A rare proposed jury trial spotlights bonuses paid out by nearly bankrupt companies, a practice that boomed in popularity during the pandemic
2021-05-05 19:03:00 Opinion Facebook Keeps Banning Trump But its oversight board offers Zuckerberg an opening to fix it.
2021-05-05 18:59:00 Art Review Frieze Review: The Art Fair Is Back Frieze, the first major fair in the U.S. since the Covid-19 pandemic started, is a gratifying step toward the new normal.
2021-05-05 18:59:00 Opinion America’s Growing Baby Bust The U.S. will need more legal immigration to offset the birth dearth.
2021-05-05 18:54:00 Opinion Madrid Votes for Freedom A win for the Spanish right on an anti-lockdown platform.
2021-05-05 18:48:00 Markets MetLife, Allstate Post Strong Gains in Adjusted Earnings Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on insurance industry hasn’t been as bad as feared
2021-05-05 18:34:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Privacy Chiefs Say Patchwork Data Laws Mean Lawyers Must Work Alongside Engineers Having specialist staff involved from the start of projects eases compliance burden, executives say
2021-05-05 17:51:00 U.S. U.S. Reduces Migrant Children in Border Patrol Custody, but Emergency Shelters Pose New Concerns Amid surge in unaccompanied minors at the border, HHS shelters are opening in convention centers, army bases, camps for oil-field workers
2021-05-05 17:51:00 World Colombia Protests Turn Deadly Amid Covid-19 Hardships Major city sealed off by protesters, clashes claim 25 lives; government struggles to ease pandemic’s economic fallout and curb surge
2021-05-05 17:49:00 CFO Journal Puma Promotes Insider to CFO as Company Projects Growth German sportswear maker forecasts higher sales but expects uncertainty around Covid-19 and the economic recovery
2021-05-05 17:48:00 Opinion Democrats Are Killing the American Dream Joe Biden’s American Families Plan replaces individual striving with middle class entitlements.
2021-05-05 17:48:00 Opinion Voters Can Spot Radical Left-Wing Policy Texas’ special election shows Americans are savvy enough to not fall for the Biden spin.
2021-05-05 17:47:00 Opinion My Mom’s Christian Lesson: ‘Offer It Up’ Her purpose was to ensure that I never let suffering go to waste.
2021-05-05 17:46:00 Opinion ‘Stakeholder Capitalism’ Caused the Oxford Vaccine Debacle University scientists insisted nobody profit, and now AstraZeneca can’t meet its commitment.
2021-05-05 17:46:00 Books ‘The Nine’ Review: Band of Sisters Once they were free of the camp, their greatest threats were hunger and men. But they held fast to the belief that goodness had not disappeared.
2021-05-05 17:46:00 Opinion America’s Welfare State Is on Borrowed Time Biden has fully embraced the mad goal of giving 98% of the population lavish benefits at no cost.
2021-05-05 17:45:00 Opinion Rural America Gets Bad Vibrations From Big Wind Turbines are popular so long as no one has to see their giant blades or hear the awful noise they make.
2021-05-05 17:43:00 Business Fox to Acquire Clay Travis’s Outkick Media, a Sports and Culture News Site Deal announced as Fox reports a 6.5% drop in revenue for the March quarter
2021-05-05 17:40:00 Politics National Eviction Moratorium Thrown Out by Federal Judge Judge Dabney Friedrich says CDC exceeded its authority with ban on evictions for tenants behind on rent during Covid-19 pandemic
2021-05-05 17:39:00 Opera Review ‘The Road We Came’ and ‘Greenwood Overcomes’ Reviews: Commemorating Black History and Artistry Three virtual walking tours from On Site Opera explore Black music and history in New York; the Tulsa Opera pays tribute in song to the centennial of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
2021-05-05 17:29:00 Business Peloton Recalls All Treadmills as CEO Apologizes Home-fitness company offers customers refunds, halts sales of Tread+ machine
2021-05-05 17:16:00 Life & Arts Bill and Melinda Gates Divorce Highlights Rise of Older-Age Splits Divorce rates among couples over 50—sometimes called ‘gray divorce’— have risen despite an overall decline. Some counselors expect soul-searching during the pandemic to accelerate the trend.
2021-05-05 17:12:00 Politics GameStop Frenzy, Archegos Meltdown May Prompt New SEC Rules, Chairman Says Gary Gensler is set to testify Thursday before House Financial Services Committee
2021-05-05 16:42:00 Opinion Resisting Arrest Raises Chance of Problems Advocating for more compliance in communities that experience a majority of police encounters is cheaper than ensuring competent law enforcement.
2021-05-05 16:41:00 Opinion Government Should Help U.S. Chip Industry Leaders in Washington from across the political spectrum agree government must not simply turn its back on chips and hope for the best.
2021-05-05 16:40:00 Opinion States Should Think Twice Before a Boycott Why should Texas and the other 11 blacklisted states not agree among themselves to coordinate a response?
2021-05-05 16:39:00 Business U.S. Backs Waiver of Intellectual Property Protection for Covid-19 Vaccines Biden administration supports WTO proposal aimed at speeding up global vaccine production
2021-05-05 16:34:00 Deals Hellman & Friedman Nears Deal to Buy At Home Group Deal would value home-decor retailer in mid-$30s a share
2021-05-05 16:33:00 Markets Jessica Alba’s Honest Co. Jumps in Market Debut Shares of the consumer-goods company rise 44% to $23, valuing it at $2.68 billion
2021-05-05 16:27:00 Politics How Elise Stefanik Rose to Cusp of GOP Leadership New York lawmaker defended President Trump during his first impeachment and now has his backing to succeed Trump critic Liz Cheney as Republican Conference chairwoman
2021-05-05 16:14:00 Tech Uber’s First Quarter Shows Food Delivery’s Continuing Strength Uber Eats now accounts for nearly two-thirds of total bookings
2021-05-05 16:03:00 Life & Arts What We’re Not Supposed to Say When We Talk About Wine ‘Hate’ is a contentious word—and, our columnist maintains, occasionally the appropriate one to describe her reaction to a wine. Just how frank can we be when it comes to matters of taste?
2021-05-05 16:02:00 A Closer Look Selections from ‘If I Were a Dog’ by Joanna Cotler
2021-05-05 16:00:00 Opinion A Political Venture at the Fed A regional bank president puts his institution behind a controversial plan for schools.
2021-05-05 15:42:00 Tech Google Adopts Hybrid Workweek, With 20% of Its Employees to Work Remotely About 20% of staff will be able to work from home and 20% can shift offices
2021-05-05 15:11:00 Screen Time What to Watch: 12 Movies and Series to Stream This Week Peacock’s ‘Girls5Eva’ brings back the ‘90s; AppleTV+’s workplace comedy ‘Mythic Quest’ returns for a second season and ‘Star Wars’ latest animated installment arrives on Disney+
2021-05-05 14:54:00 Tech For Better Burgers, Try a Backyard Flat-Top Griddle If you want superior flavor faster, some patty professionals say skip the grill and reach for a flat expanse of ripping hot steel.
2021-05-05 14:49:00 Life & Arts Top Colleges in the Midwest for Diversity Six of the region’s top 10 schools in this category in the WSJ/THE College Rankings are in Chicago.
2021-05-05 14:06:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Carson Block Calls for Delisting of Many Chinese Firms in U.S. ‘We have…roughly 400 companies from China listed in the U.S. that are literally beyond the reach of investigation and enforcement,’ the short seller said
2021-05-05 13:57:00 World Israel’s Yair Lapid Handed Mandate to Form New Government After Netanyahu Fails Centrist politician has four weeks to form an administration, with prospect of another election looming
2021-05-05 13:23:00 World Canada Authorizes Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine for Children 12 to 15 Years Old The U.S. and Europe are considering requests to allow the shot to be administered to younger people
2021-05-05 13:13:00 Life & Arts Pigeon Peas and Rice With Roasted Okra and Tomato Vinaigrette The comforting combination of pigeon peas and rice gets a little crunch from roasted okra and a nice tangy twang from a bright tomato vinaigrette.
2021-05-05 13:10:00 Life & Arts A Lighter, Brighter Recipe for Beans and Rice The comforting combination of pigeon peas and rice gets a little crunch from roasted okra and a nice tangy twang from a bright tomato vinaigrette.
2021-05-05 12:54:00 Politics Trump Justice Department Obstruction Memo Must Be Released, Judge Orders Federal judge says agency improperly characterized as privileged a 2019 memo recommending against prosecuting Trump for obstruction of justice
2021-05-05 12:52:00 Business Some CEOs Suggest Dropping Degree Requirements in Hiring Merck CEO and former IBM CEO say removing conventional requirements for some jobs can diversify talent pools
2021-05-05 12:20:00 Logistics Report Maersk Posts Record Profit, Steps Up Buyback Program Danish container-shipping giant launched a new $5 billion share buyback program; ‘It’s been our best quarter ever,’ CEO says
2021-05-05 12:20:00 Markets GM Shows Up Ford The largest Detroit car maker seems to be cruising through the chip crisis without as many problems as its peers, but it is already an investor darling
2021-05-05 12:01:00 U.S. Births in U.S. Drop to Levels Not Seen Since 1979 Millennials fuel continued downward trend in fertility rates
2021-05-05 12:01:00 Markets Yellen’s Interest-Rate Comment Illustrates the Market’s Greatest Worry The possibility of a bond-market tantrum or higher inflation has supplanted pandemic-related concerns
2021-05-05 11:44:00 Life & Arts How to ‘Travel’ to Japan This Summer We can’t attend the Olympic Games in Tokyo, but with these book, food and film recommendations from locals, we can immerse ourselves in the city and the culture. Plus: an ‘intensely embarrassing’ reality dating show.
2021-05-05 11:10:00 Business Bill Gates’s Firm Transferred $1.8 Billion in Stock to Melinda Gates Amid Divorce AutoNation, Canadian National Railway shares changed hands this week
2021-05-05 10:49:00 Politics Trump Copes With Facebook, Twitter Ban by Relying on Email, Media Interviews Cut off from social media, the former president pursues other ways to get his message out
2021-05-05 10:24:00 Business New York Times Subscriber Gains Slow in First Post-Trump Quarter Publisher says revenue rose 6.6%, forecasts advertising rebound in second quarter
2021-05-05 10:06:00 World Russian Forces Near Ukraine Are Still a Threat, U.S. Says Secretary of State Antony Blinken to arrive in Ukraine in a show of support
2021-05-05 10:00:00 World English Journalist Couldnt Bear Abuse’s of the Apostrophe John Richards, who has died at age 97, founded a society to promote correct punctuation
2021-05-05 09:47:00 U.S. Donald Trump’s Facebook Ban is Upheld, But Panel Orders Review Oversight board says company must decide in coming months whether the former president is permanently locked out of the platform
2021-05-05 09:46:00 Business GM Affirms Profit Outlook Despite Chip-Shortage Woes The auto maker reports earnings of $3.02 billion, up from about $300 million a year earlier, when the coronavirus pandemic disrupted operations
2021-05-05 09:34:00 Markets Match Proves Absence Makes Hearts Grow Fonder Online dating company’s heat is growing in the new year. Will Bumble share the love?
2021-05-05 09:33:00 Fed’s Evans Sees Policy on Hold for Some Time Getting inflation persistently up to 2% may not be easy, the Chicago Fed leader said
2021-05-05 09:18:00 Politics Biden Blocks Trump-Era Gig-Worker Rule The decision removes an extra layer of assurance gig companies wanted to prevent workers from being classified as employees
2021-05-05 09:11:00 Politics Elise Stefanik Gains Momentum to Replace Liz Cheney as GOP No. 3 House GOP Whip Steve Scalise backed the New York lawmaker as GOP conference chairwoman after Cheney’s criticisms of Donald Trump
2021-05-05 08:59:00 Life & Arts Why Airline Rewards Programs Are Trying Harder to Keep You Loyal The major carriers are loosening their rules to ensure their most frequent fliers stay in the fold even when they haven’t been flying frequently
2021-05-05 08:53:00 Economy U.S. Treasury Evaluating Various Scenarios for Debt Limit Reinstatement Expects Congress will raise or suspend debt limit before current suspension expires Aug. 1
2021-05-05 08:36:00 World Covid-19 Hits Indian Delegation Attending London G-7 Meeting Meeting goes ahead after members of Indian delegation test positive
2021-05-05 08:00:00 World Michigan Wants to Close Oil Pipeline Under the Great Lakes. Canada Says No. Gov. Whitmer’s push to close Enbridge Line 5 corridor could choke off central Canada from gasoline and home-heating oil, Canadian officials say
2021-05-05 07:10:00 World India’s ‘Oxygen Express’ Races to Supply Hospitals, but Covid Patients Die as Stocks Run Out Country is using its railways and air force to speed it to hospitals, but crisis caught system unprepared, say medical and industry experts
2021-05-05 07:00:00 Markets Banks in Archegos Aftermath Tighten Credit Lines, Scrutinize Swaps Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley are among firms reviewing their businesses that offer financing to hedge funds and family offices
2021-05-05 07:00:00 Markets Higher Taxes Won’t Squash the Biden Boom A lot has yet to be worked out, but spending, tax and infrastructure plans are likely to boost economic growth
2021-05-05 06:58:00 Markets Galaxy Digital to Buy BitGo in Crypto Sector’s First $1 Billion Deal Purchase coincides with a nearly yearlong rally in the sector, whose market value has surged to $2 trillion
2021-05-05 06:51:00 Markets Vaccine Rollouts Are a Key Ingredient for Big Food Slow inoculations and surging Covid-19 infections in some developing countries will delay the global recovery. Among food companies, Nestlé and Unilever are more exposed than U.S. peers.
2021-05-05 06:50:00 Markets Lyft, Caesars, Zillow, Dogecoin: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today Technology shares were poised to recover some ground
2021-05-05 06:38:00 Markets Stock Futures Rise, Pointing to S&P 500 Rebounding Tech shares are poised to recover some ground
2021-05-05 06:18:00 World China Faces Tougher Rules on Its European Deals Spree New EU rules would help address concerns that Chinese businesses are competing unfairly around the world
2021-05-05 06:11:00 Markets Everything Screams Inflation Investors are woefully unprepared for what may be a once-in-a-generation shift in the market
2021-05-05 05:43:00 World U.S. Allies Diverge Over Labeling China’s Treatment of Uyghurs as Genocide New Zealand’s government says designation requires rigorous assessment on basis of international law
2021-05-05 05:30:00 Dubious Covid-19 Shots, Fake Vaccination Certificates Proliferate on Dark Web Scammers are exploiting growing European demand
2021-05-05 05:30:00 Shipping Matters U.S. Push for Carbon-Neutral Ships Expected to Reveal Industry Divisions The Biden administration is calling for drastic cuts in shipping emissions, but some developing nations may not be on board
2021-05-05 05:30:00 Markets Ant’s Halted IPO Takes the Shine off China’s STAR Market Route to a listing on Shanghai’s once-hot answer to Nasdaq has become harder, prompting some startups to favor offshore IPOs
2021-05-05 05:30:00 Markets Biden’s Capital-Gains Tax Increases Would Hit Few Americans, Study Says One proposed change could affect 62% of capital gains but fewer than 3% of taxpayers
2021-05-05 05:30:00 Economy Fed’s Williams Sees Need for Strong Monetary Policy Support to Ensure Recovery The central bank’s bond buying doesn’t appear to be creating imbalances in the financial sector, the New York Fed leader says
2021-05-05 05:01:00 Economy Resilient Services Sector Points to Global Economic Pickup, Despite Covid-19 Flare-Ups Activity in India’s services sector continued to grow in April, even as new infections hit record highs
2021-05-05 04:13:00 Business Chip Crisis Deepens at Jeep Maker Stellantis Car maker cut first-quarter production by about 190,000 vehicles as semiconductor shortage dragged on
2021-05-04 19:53:00 U.S. Derek Chauvin Seeks New Trial in George Floyd Case An attorney for the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murder said a change of venue should have been granted and alleged prosecutorial and jury misconduct
2021-05-04 19:36:00 U.S. Prosecutors Seek Outside Review of Materials Seized From Rudy Giuliani Attorney-client privilege concerns cited in letter to Manhattan federal judge
2021-05-04 19:34:00 Business Despite Divorce, Bill and Melinda Gates to Remain Co-Chairs, Trustees of Their Foundation The philanthropists plan to continue working together to steer charitable organization
2021-05-04 18:51:00 Opinion Joe Biden’s Hits and Misses After 100 Days Students discuss the president’s most noteworthy actions in office.
2021-05-04 18:49:00 Opinion The Centers for Politics and Unions American Federation of Teachers chief Randi Weingarten gets the CDC to change its school opening guidance.
2021-05-04 18:47:00 CFO Journal Ripple Names New CFO as Cryptocurrency Firm Faces SEC Lawsuit Kristina Campbell will serve as finance chief of the startup as it deals with a legal challenge from U.S. securities regulators
2021-05-04 18:47:00 Opinion Montana to Feds: No More No-Work Bonus The Treasure State will refuse extra federal jobless payments.
2021-05-04 18:44:00 Opinion Purging Liz Cheney GOP leaders shouldn’t have to lie about 2020 to keep their job.
2021-05-04 18:40:00 Opinion The FBI’s Dubious Briefing Did the bureau set up two GOP Senators at the behest of Democrats?
2021-05-04 18:36:00 Opinion Austin Loses Patience With Camping in the Streets Liberal voters rebuke leftist politicians for a policy that brought homeless encampments to the city’s public spaces.
2021-05-04 18:32:00 Opinion Biden Wants Higher Taxes Than China’s How can a communist country treat capital gains more favorably than the U.S. does?
2021-05-04 18:31:00 Opinion Teachers Unions’ Covid Cop-Outs Are a Winning Issue for GOP Republicans should campaign hard in 2022 on Democratic obeisance to the AFT and NEA.
2021-05-04 18:31:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: Yellen’s Fiscal-Flip Flop ‘The switch from chronic and growing deficits in the federal budget to surpluses has boosted national saving, cut interest rates, and spurred private investment.’
2021-05-04 18:26:00 Opinion The Left vs. the Biden Jobs Boom The economy may be golden for Democrats if they can keep their activists distracted.
2021-05-04 18:24:00 Opinion The Art of the Covid Vaccine Deal The inoculation project now moves to persuading the wary to get the shot.
2021-05-04 18:22:00 Books ‘Lincoln in Private’ Review: Confidential Ruminations In his private writings, Lincoln tested his arguments, and perfected their phrasing, before making them public.
2021-05-04 17:45:00 Business General Electric, AT&T Investors Reject CEO Pay Plans Majority of shareholder votes are cast against compensation plans for GE’s Larry Culp and AT&T’s John Stankey
2021-05-04 17:28:00 Risk & Compliance Journal MoneyGram’s Compliance Program Gets Thumbs-Up After Eight Years of Overhauls Move brings company one step closer to concluding settlement agreement reached in 2012 over anti-money-laundering failures
2021-05-04 17:28:00 Television Review ‘Queen of Meth’ Review: Lori Arnold’s Reign of Error A Discovery+ miniseries tells the story of actor Tom Arnold’s sister, who profited handsomely from introducing methamphetamines to Iowa.
2021-05-04 17:26:00 Politics Liz Cheney Draws More GOP Fire Over Anti-Trump Stance House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy questions whether the Wyoming lawmaker can carry out her job in leadership
2021-05-04 17:25:00 Television Review ‘Girls5eva’ Review: Getting the Band Back 2gether In a Peacock comedy produced by Tina Fey, Sara Bareilles and more play the now-middle-aged members of a ’90s girl group that reunites.
2021-05-04 17:22:00 U.S. Manhattan District Attorney Candidates Face Off in First Debate Crowded Democratic field arrives at potential turning point in race to succeed Cyrus Vance Jr.
2021-05-04 17:21:00 U.S. Elizabeth Holmes Makes First Courtroom Appearance in Over a Year Theranos founder’s criminal fraud trial has been delayed by pandemic, her pregnancy
2021-05-04 17:17:00 Business Even the CEO of Zoom Says He Has Zoom Fatigue JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon, other executives say the perils of remote work make a return to the office an imperative
2021-05-04 17:09:00 Arts & Entertainment Regional Theater Gets a National Audience The creation of the National Theatre Network, a streaming platform for small troupes, will be a boon for companies and viewers alike.
2021-05-04 17:06:00 Life & Arts Readers Share the One Thing That Got Them Through the Pandemic Year Wall Street Journal readers write about where they found solace during the past year
2021-05-04 16:39:00 Politics DHS to Suspend New Fingerprint Requirement for Spouses of H-1B Visa Holders Delays due to visa-processing change, compounded by pandemic, left many, mostly professional Indian women, out of work
2021-05-04 16:38:00 U.S. Sheldon Silver, Former New York State Assembly Speaker, Is Furloughed From Prison Democrat had been convicted on public-corruption charges
2021-05-04 16:36:00 Politics Biden’s China Policy Blends Obama’s and Trump’s, Top Aide Says National Security Council’s Kurt Campbell says the Biden administration is looking to cooperate and compete with China
2021-05-04 16:32:00 Economy Yellen Says She Isn’t Predicting Higher Interest Rates Treasury secretary says President Biden’s proposed spending programs are needed to make U.S. economy competitive
2021-05-04 16:24:00 Politics Biden Says He Hopes to Meet With Putin During Upcoming Europe Trip American president is scheduled to attend the Group of Seven summit in England and hold meetings in Brussels
2021-05-04 16:21:00 Politics Supreme Court Considers Leniency Bid for Crack-Cocaine Offense Justices examine relevance of First Step Act to an earlier conviction; Biden administration backs inmate, reversing Trump position
2021-05-04 16:18:00 Opinion Even Off-Duty, Navy Never Quits Good Samaritans dive into the choppy waters off San Diego to save drowning migrants.
2021-05-04 16:13:00 U.S. Biden Aims to Get 70% of Adults at Least One Covid-19 Vaccine Dose by July 4 Unordered shots to be reallocated to states in need as pharmacies directed to offer walk-in vaccinations
2021-05-04 16:09:00 Tech Lyft Says First-Quarter Ridership Improved Compared With Much of Last Year Ride-hailing company reported 13.5 million active riders in latest period
2021-05-04 15:45:00 World France Advances Climate Bill Backed by Macron Environmentalists say it will leave the nation short of meeting goals under the Paris climate accord
2021-05-04 15:15:00 Markets U.S. LNG Club Could Get More Exclusive Healthy demand growth should help U.S. LNG exporters such as Cheniere Energy, but supply additions will make it difficult for new projects to break through
2021-05-04 15:08:00 U.S. Suspect Shot by FBI Outside CIA Headquarters Dies The FBI said the armed man in Monday’s standoff died from his injuries
2021-05-04 15:00:00 Life & Arts Can the Pandemic Make Us Stronger? Endurance Athletes Tell Us How Adversity can make us braver and more resilient, in sports and in life. We got advice from an Iditarod racer, an open-water swimmer, a long-distance sailor and a runner.
2021-05-04 14:53:00 Real Estate How to Grow a Country Garden Without a Yard Lack a plot in which to nurture a dreamy profusion of plants and flowers? Dig into container gardening, no land required.
2021-05-04 14:49:00 Politics Merrick Garland Highlights Domestic Terrorism, Civil Rights in Budget Request Attorney general lays out shift in Justice Department’s priorities in appearance before House panel
2021-05-04 14:38:00 CIO Journal Bank of America Tech Executives See Promise in 5G, 3-D Printing The bank plans to spend $3.5 billion this year on new tech initiatives
2021-05-04 14:31:00 Opinion Inflation Is More of a Threat Than the Fed Says The velocity of money will increase significantly just as the 27% surge in M2 since the outbreak of the pandemic works its way through the economy.
2021-05-04 14:29:00 Opinion Our Overworked Navy Needs Real Attention Positioning a fleet between Taiwan and China invites an incident with limitless potential for escalation.
2021-05-04 14:28:00 Opinion Kennedy Was First Mover In Cuban Missile Crisis The placing of the Russian missiles in Cuba was a direct response to President Kennedy’s placement of missiles in Turkey.
2021-05-04 14:05:00 CMO Today As Decision on Trump Looms, Facebook Preps Its Advertisers The company has been reaching out to ad agencies to explain it has no sway on whether its oversight board will allow Donald Trump back on the platform
2021-05-04 13:24:00 Markets Ferrari Hits a Bump The sports-car maker cut its profit guidance Tuesday. The stock’s high valuation leaves no room for such surprises
2021-05-04 12:38:00 Opinion The Fed Board Agrees Never to Disagree During Yellen’s tenure and Powell’s, no governor has cast a dissenting vote on monetary policy.
2021-05-04 12:37:00 Opinion American Health Depends on Exporting Covid Vaccines Supply exceeds demand at home, and viral variants could eventually defeat the inoculations.
2021-05-04 12:35:00 Markets Avis Budget Is Anything but Cheap Investors are pricing the rental-car company like a long-term luxury
2021-05-04 12:26:00 Life & Arts Why Patagonia’s Baggies Shorts Are Selling Out—and 3 Styles to Buy Instead The nylon shorts, a brand mainstay since 1982, are growing increasingly popular with a younger generation. If you can’t wait for a restock, try these modern-day options.
2021-05-04 12:17:00 U.S. American Airlines, Unilever, Others Oppose Texas Voting Access Laws State legislature expected to vote on bill in coming days
2021-05-04 11:52:00 Markets Apollo Posts Profit as Investments Outpace Broader Market Firm’s private-equity portfolio climbed 22% during the first quarter
2021-05-04 11:42:00 World Europe’s Troubled Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout Turns the Corner After a slow start, immunizations begin to catch up with U.S., helped by bigger deliveries and less bureaucracy
2021-05-04 10:55:00 Politics U.K. Open to U.S. Proposals for Global Minimum Corporate-Tax Rate Treasury chief says proposal needs to go along with a fairer split of tax take from tech giants
2021-05-04 10:46:00 Markets Jamie Dimon on Booming Economy and Finally Getting Off Zoom JPMorgan Chase CEO speaks at The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council Summit
2021-05-04 10:07:00 Business BioNTech Founders Expect Covid-19 Pandemic to Last Until Mid-2022 Mixing and matching of different types of vaccines could be necessary to end pandemic, company’s chief medical officer says
2021-05-04 10:00:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Compliance Officers Play Growing Role in Corporate Sustainability Efforts Dell, Western Union and other companies are showcasing the work of their compliance departments to attract ESG-focused investors
2021-05-04 09:56:00 Business CVS Says Covid-19 Vaccinations Slow as U.S. Rollout Runs Into Hesitancy Drugstore chain says demand for shots has fallen by about 30% after administering more than 17 million doses in U.S.
2021-05-04 09:15:00 Markets What Is Dogecoin, How to Say It and Why It’s No Longer a Joke Cryptocurrency created for laughs is now worth more than Twitter after broker eToro added it to its trading platform
2021-05-04 09:08:00 Markets Dogecoin, Gartner, SmileDirectClub, Avis Budget: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today Technology shares were leading declines premarket
2021-05-04 09:00:00 Markets Should Young Adults Stretch Financially to Buy a Home? Yes, interest rates are still low. The counterargument: It’s a sellers’ housing market.
2021-05-04 08:53:00 World Israel’s Netanyahu Expected to Fall Short in Race to Form New Government Failure would boost rivals looking to oust the embattled prime minister
2021-05-04 08:48:00 Economy Consumer Demand Drove U.S. Imports to Record High in March Trade deficit widened to $74.4 billion as imports were up 6.3% and exports rose 6.6%
2021-05-04 08:43:00 World Europe Proved It Can Innovate During the Pandemic. Now It Has to Figure How to Benefit From It. Investors world-wide profit from Europe’s inventions, but local startups struggle to grow. Now Covid-19 threatens to widen that gap.
2021-05-04 08:30:00 WSJ. Magazine Mother’s Day Gift Ideas for the Mom Who Needs a Break The best gift ideas to give Mom a blissful sense of escape—even if she’s still stuck at home
2021-05-04 08:14:00 Business Pfizer’s Covid-19 Vaccine Lifts Quarterly Results The pharmaceutical company boosted its full-year guidance for sales from the vaccine to $26 billion from $15 billion
2021-05-04 08:11:00 Economy Who Would Pay Biden’s Corporate Tax Increase Is Key Question in Policy Debate Four years after 2017 tax law, lawmakers and economists still disagree over workers’ and shareholders’ relative burdens
2021-05-04 08:00:00 Real Estate U.S. Travelers Say ‘Aloha’ Again, Bringing Relief to Hawaiian Hotels Occupancy rates near 50%, lower than the U.S. average but a notable uptick from 12% a year earlier
2021-05-04 08:00:00 Life & Arts The NBA Star Who Fixed His Shot—and the Knicks Julius Randle was one of the league’s worst 3-point shooters. Now he’s one of the best. And you thought the Knicks being good was crazy.
2021-05-04 08:00:00 Real Estate Suburban Homes and Retail Are the Budding New Office Hotspot Startups and landlords are banking that even after the pandemic, people will want a place to work remotely beyond their living rooms
2021-05-04 07:34:00 Markets KKR Swings to a Profit Private-equity firm posts total quarterly revenue of $4.56 billion, compared with negative revenue a year earlier
2021-05-04 07:10:00 Markets Deluge of Debt Is Tied to Carbon Emissions and Diversity Critics say incentives and penalties embedded in ‘ratchet’ loans meant to spur environmental and social change are too small to matter
2021-05-04 07:03:00 Markets Consumer Lenders Face a New Challenge: Each Other Lenders awash in cheap funding face no credit issues for now, but that might not last
2021-05-04 07:03:00 Markets This Rail Merger Could Become Quite Expensive Canadian National’s higher bid for Kansas City Southern gives it upper hand, but exposes it to broad financial risk if approval falls through
2021-05-04 06:24:00 Markets Stock Futures Edge Lower With Tech Retreating S&P 500 is on course for tepid losses ahead of a string of earnings and trade deficit data
2021-05-04 05:35:00 Markets The Taiwanese Chip Champion Shaking Qualcomm’s Tree MediaTek has fared well during the chip shortage and its stock has skyrocketed
2021-05-04 05:30:00 CFO Journal Clorox’s Move to Provide Adjusted EPS Raises Concerns The non-GAAP metric will increase transparency, company CFO says
2021-05-04 05:30:00 Markets The Man With More SPACs Than Anyone After minting billions in the private equity arena, Alec Gores has become a serial SPAC backer
2021-05-04 05:30:00 Derby’s Take: Fed’s Williams Flags Potency of Mortgage Bond Buying
2021-05-04 05:30:00 European Authorities Scrutinize Data Flows to U.S. Regulators and courts are asking for proof of how companies protect data that leaves the EU
2021-05-04 05:30:00 Markets Cautious German Savers Brave the Stock Market Negative bank rates and booming U.S. stocks like Amazon, Tesla—even GameStop—embolden investors
2021-05-04 05:30:00 Real Estate That Vacated Sears Store May Reopen as a Public School Mall owners find charter schools make good tenants in many spaces left empty by departing big-box retailers
2021-05-04 03:25:00 World Mexico City Metro System Overpass Collapses, Killing at Least 20 People The accident happened on the metro system’s line 12
2021-05-03 23:48:00 Tech GOP Lawmakers Urge Probe of Amazon’s Pursuit of Pentagon Contract Sen. Mike Lee and Rep. Ken Buck say Amazon might have violated antitrust law in seeking JEDI cloud-computing deal ultimately won by Microsoft
2021-05-03 21:43:00 U.S. FBI Shoots and Wounds Man Carrying Weapon Outside CIA Headquarters The shooting ended hourslong standoff between the man and law enforcement
2021-05-03 20:24:00 Pro Bankruptcy Justice Department Bankruptcy Lawyer Says LaPierre Failed to Provide NRA Oversight A government lawyer said a monthlong trial established that NRA management should be removed or the group’s chapter 11 case thrown out
2021-05-03 19:11:00 Business Bill and Melinda Gates to End Marriage The Microsoft co-founder and his wife, who is co-chair of their philanthropic foundation, have been married 27 years
2021-05-03 19:06:00 Logistics Report Government Made Missteps in Extending Coronavirus Aid to Trucker, Report Says Congressional Oversight Commission report suggests inconsistencies in data used to designate Yellow Corp. as critical to national security
2021-05-03 18:40:00 Opinion Biden’s Stimulus for the IRS More auditors and audits won’t yield much new revenue.
2021-05-03 18:37:00 Opinion Basecamp and the Political Bullies The company wants an apolitical workplace. Cue the outrage.
2021-05-03 18:35:00 Life & Arts Mother’s Day 2021: The Best Gifts to Indulge Her Hobbies Cultivate the new interests Mom picked up in quarantine (or would have, if she’d had time) with these gifts, from art kits and books to tennis clothes and gardening gear
2021-05-03 18:33:00 Opinion What Was That About Voter Suppression? Census data show a lower black-white turnout disparity in Georgia than in New Jersey.
2021-05-03 18:26:00 Business SmileDirectClub Shares Fall After Company Reports Cybersecurity Incident Cyberattack last month disrupted operations and will hurt sales, company says
2021-05-03 18:19:00 CIO Journal Companies Extend Cloud to the Edge Firms world-wide on pace to spend $240.6 billion on edge computing through 2024
2021-05-03 18:13:00 Business Under Armour Paying $9 Million to Resolve SEC Accounting Probe Regulator claims sportswear brand failed to tell investors that it pulled forward orders to meet quarterly targets
2021-05-03 17:56:00 U.S. Hate Crimes in New York City Continue to Rise Asians were targeted in 80 hate crimes from Jan. 1 through April 4, up from 16 in the same period in 2020, NYPD figures show
2021-05-03 17:55:00 Opinion Youth Pay a High Price for Covid Protection Leaders’ greatest failure was not focusing on the elderly, who had lower costs and far greater benefits.
2021-05-03 17:54:00 Opinion I Grieve for My Native India Being an immigrant once meant leaving your country of birth behind. No longer.
2021-05-03 17:53:00 Opinion Biden’s Daycare Plan Is Bad for Families Young children are clearly happier and healthier when they spend the day at home with a parent.
2021-05-03 17:52:00 Opinion Who’s Afraid of Tim Scott? The GOP senator forced the president and vice president to respond to him.
2021-05-03 17:52:00 U.S. States Roll Back Restrictions as Covid-19 Cases Decline Health experts say Americans need to continue to follow public-health guidance and states need to push vaccinations
2021-05-03 17:51:00 Opinion Cheer Up About the Middle East Democracy hasn’t advanced, but the U.S. has bolstered its regional interests.
2021-05-03 17:50:00 Books ‘The Premonition’ Review: A Pandemic of Experts A band of healthcare elites saw that Covid-19 was more dangerous than U.S. leaders acknowledged. Would their advice have made a difference?
2021-05-03 17:49:00 Politics Michael Jackson Estate to Face Smaller Tax Bill After Court Ruling Late singer’s name and likeness was worth $4 million at his death, not $161 million IRS estimated, U.S. tax court rules
2021-05-03 17:47:00 World Brazil Defends Decision to Reject Russia’s Covid-19 Vaccine, Citing Safety and Efficacy Health authority says Russia lacks experience and was defensive in its responses to the agency
2021-05-03 17:34:00 Politics Biden Raises Refugee Admissions Cap to 62,500 President had previously faced blowback for backing away from that number
2021-05-03 17:15:00 Economy New York Fed’s John Williams Says Fed Far From Achieving Job, Inflation Goals Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s leader says Fed hasn’t seen ‘nearly enough’ good news to change policy stance
2021-05-03 17:15:00 Markets Berkshire Chooses Greg Abel as Warren Buffett’s Successor in CEO Role The choice of Mr. Abel to eventually lead Berkshire Hathaway answers question that had hovered over the firm for decades
2021-05-03 17:14:00 Politics Richard Cordray to Head Student-Loan Agency Former chief of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to manage $1.6 trillion borrowing program
2021-05-03 17:14:00 Opinion Is Texas Becoming More Republican? The GOP wins a 2021 blowout in a competitive 2020 district.
2021-05-03 17:12:00 Markets Ethereum Is Booming in the NFT Frenzy—So Is Network Congestion The gains in ether, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market value behind bitcoin, have accelerated even as bitcoin’s momentum slows
2021-05-03 17:03:00 Economy Powell Says Low-Income Lending Rules Should Apply to All Firms Offering Consumer Credit ‘Like activities should have like regulation,’ Fed chairman says
2021-05-03 16:56:00 U.S. Landmark Opioid Trial Opens in West Virginia Trial will be first test of argument that the nation’s three largest drug distributors fueled an epidemic of addiction
2021-05-03 16:51:00 Economy Treasury Expects to Borrow $1.3 Trillion Over Second Half of Fiscal 2021 Federal spending expected to pick up following the Covid-19 relief package enacted in March
2021-05-03 16:40:00 Music Review ‘Latest Record Project: Volume 1’ by Van Morrison Review: Songs in the Key of Conspiracy The singer follows up his anti-lockdown releases with a long album full of more grievances.
2021-05-03 16:05:00 A Closer Look Selections from ’Three’ by Stephen Michael King
2021-05-03 15:58:00 Markets Estee Lauder Stock Was Too Done Up Makeup sales at the global beauty giant are showing signs of recovery but its shares have priced that in and more
2021-05-03 15:18:00 Health Blue Health Insurers Drop Revenue Rule That Limited Competition Blue Cross Blue Shield Association implements key aspect of antitrust settlement the companies reached last year
2021-05-03 15:13:00 Business Action Network to Be Sold as Sports-Betting Deals Surge Denmark-based Better Collective to buy U.S. betting-analytics firm for $240 million, seeking more scale in dealings with gambling operators
2021-05-03 14:59:00 Life & Arts Devised for Diabetics, a Glucose Monitor Attracts the Famous and Well-Connected A continuous sensor points out often-neglected, sometimes dangerous blood-sugar spikes, but critics question its usefulness to the well
2021-05-03 14:39:00 Life & Arts The Consequences of Skipping Doctor Appointments During the Covid Pandemic A year of postponed checkups, mammograms, colonoscopies and other medical care could have serious health repercussions, researchers warn.
2021-05-03 14:37:00 Risk & Compliance Journal DNB to Be Fined $48.1 Million for Anti-Money-Laundering Inadequacies The lender acknowledged shortcomings related to customer due diligence and said it has since strengthened efforts to combat money-laundering
2021-05-03 13:45:00 Opinion ‘Woke’ CEOs: Risky Business or the Next Great Awakening? A debate on corporate leadership and political advocacy.
2021-05-03 13:17:00 Politics WSJ CEO Council Features Interviews With Janet Yellen, Jamie Dimon Heads of Zoom, Shell, BioNTech and Merck also set to speak at virtual summit
2021-05-03 13:03:00 Opinion Media Mistrust Won’t Inoculate You Against Misinformation The impressions we form about important events will still be driven by their unreliable reporting.
2021-05-03 13:00:00 Business Amazon to Get Exclusive NFL Rights a Year Earlier Than Expected Tech giant’s ‘Thursday Night Football’ deal will start in 2022-23, as Fox exits its pact early
2021-05-03 12:54:00 Opinion Can the USPS Deliver a Major Reformation? Fix the price structure first.
2021-05-03 12:53:00 Opinion U.S. Vets Rate the Afghanistan Withdrawal In a war that has lasted almost 20 years with no victory and none in sight, why do we think we need more time?
2021-05-03 12:52:00 Opinion A Federal Plan to End Our Environmental Plasticide Only 9% of plastic waste is ever recycled, and much of our plastic isn’t recyclable anyway.
2021-05-03 12:30:00 Economy Yellen to Appoint Senior Fed Official to Run Top Bank Regulator Michael Hsu is expected to become acting comptroller of the currency
2021-05-03 12:00:00 Life & Arts Teen Girls’ Poor Diets Are Worrying Doctors Many adolescent girls aren’t getting enough important nutrients, which could lead to poor school performance, future health issues
2021-05-03 11:53:00 Tech Decision on Donald Trump’s Facebook Ban Is Coming on Wednesday. Here’s How It Will Work. Company’s 20-person independent oversight board could help shape policy on content from public figures
2021-05-03 11:04:00 Life & Arts Pressure Intensifies on Manchester United Owners After Violent Protest Fan groups redoubled their efforts to force change within the club as police investigate Sunday’s events at Old Trafford
2021-05-03 10:32:00 Life & Arts Investment Crowdfunding: Is Buying $100 in Equity in Your Favorite Shoe Brand Worth It? Season Three, a New York boot company, is raising capital via Republic, an investment crowdfunding website that allows backers of the brand to acquire a small sliver of the company itself
2021-05-03 10:09:00 Business Meredith Exiting Local TV Business in $2.7 Billion Deal Company says deal with Gray Television would allow it to better focus on magazine brands, digital-media properties
2021-05-03 10:00:00 Markets Blackstone Elevates New Generation of Private-Equity Leaders Appointments are sign of unit’s growing heft
2021-05-03 10:00:00 Politics Sen. Tim Scott Sets Off New Round in the Unfinished Race Conversation The terms of the conversation have changed, separating Americans along not just racial lines but generational ones as well
2021-05-03 09:45:00 Politics EPA Proposes Rules to Curb Coolant Emissions From Air Conditioners and Refrigerators Proposal is first step toward meeting new mandates to cut supply by 85% over 15 years
2021-05-03 09:00:00 Markets Fund Companies Push Diversity in Bond Trading Electronic-trading platform MarketAxess is helping large asset managers meet requirements to transact more with minority-owned dealers
2021-05-03 08:57:00 Business Verizon to Sell Yahoo, AOL to Apollo for $5 Billion Wireless company retreats from the media sector, but will retain 10% stake in digital-media business
2021-05-03 08:18:00 World North Korea’s Kim Il Sung Has a Memoir. South Koreans Aren’t Allowed to Buy It. Bookstores have halted sales, and police are investigating after a small publisher released it
2021-05-03 08:15:00 World Some Countries Threaten Citizens With Jail if They Return From India Australia says violators of travel ban could face five years’ imprisonment after New Zealand eases a similar Covid-19 restriction
2021-05-03 08:04:00 Life & Arts Aaron Rodgers, Broncos Quarterback? Stay in Green Bay? ‘Jeopardy!’ Host? Questions Looking for Answers The reigning NFL MVP is reportedly looking to move onto a new team. Or, alternatively, a full-time game show career.
2021-05-03 07:03:00 Markets Apple Has Two Trillion Reasons to Fight for the App Store Service margins are at a record and have been a key underpinning of Apple’s surging market value
2021-05-03 07:00:00 Private Effort to Aid Launch of Fed Digital Dollar Accelerates Work The Digital Dollar Project will be independent of a similar effort by the Boston Fed and MIT
2021-05-03 07:00:00 Tech Digital-Health Startups Are Booming. Their Customers Are Overwhelmed. As investors pour money into health startups, customers press for price breaks and streamlining; ‘We are inundated’
2021-05-03 07:00:00 World Bidenomics Takes Root in Europe’s Economically Fragile South Italy, Spain and Greece plan to revamp their economies. If it doesn’t work, a mountain of debt could revive eurozone tensions.
2021-05-03 06:38:00 Markets Stock Futures Rise Ahead of Manufacturing Data S&P 500 is on track to extend rally after closing out April with its best one-month performance since November.
2021-05-03 06:32:00 World Moderna to Deliver Covid-19 Vaccine to Hard-Hit Developing World Sale of 34 million doses comes as pandemic rages in countries such as India and Brazil
2021-05-03 06:16:00 World As Covid-19 Testing Moves Center Stage, U.S. and U.K. Approaches Differ U.K. provides centralized free testing while the U.S. is patchy, less intensive
2021-05-03 06:15:00 Markets Fidelity Halves Its Ant Group Valuation After Beijing’s Clampdown Asset manager marked Ant shares in several of its funds at prices that implied a $144 billion valuation at the end of February
2021-05-03 06:14:00 Markets Asia’s Lopsided Economic Booms Store Problems for the Future Export-focused growth is making financial vulnerabilities worse for Taiwan and South Korea
2021-05-03 06:00:00 Experience Report How Microsoft’s Chief Accessibility Officer Does Her Job Jenny Lay-Flurrie holds every department—from hiring to videogaming—accountable for being accessible to people with disabilities
2021-05-03 05:33:00 Markets Record Share of Companies Are Beating Earnings Estimates Investors wonder how much results have already been baked into share prices
2021-05-03 05:33:00 Business Next Generation of Covid-19 Vaccines Could Be Pill or Spray Drugmakers and government labs are developing doses easier to take and transport to tackle coronavirus variants and avert future pandemics
2021-05-03 05:30:00 Markets Record Lumber Prices Lift Sawmills, While Homeowners, Do-it-Yourselfers Pay Up Sawmill owners have been reporting fat profits for the first three months of the year, and wood-market prices keep rising
2021-05-03 05:30:00 CFO Journal Lemonade CFO Uses Social Media to Connect With Individual Investors The insurance firm is relying on YouTube and other communication platforms to explain its strategy
2021-05-03 05:30:00 Business Warren Buffett Says Bad Leaders Pose Biggest Risk to Companies Berkshire Hathaway CEO warns that business failures can occur if personable managers ‘put on an appearance’ of competence
2021-05-03 05:30:00 Tech Apple and ‘Fortnite’ Maker Epic Games to Square Off in Court Trial is slated to begin Monday in a case that could reshape the relationship between software developers and app-store operators
2021-05-03 05:02:00 Markets How to Plug Into Electric Vehicle Chargers Chargers may prove better investments than many EV makers, but stock pickers still need to choose between a plethora of business models.
2021-05-02 21:11:00 Tech Dell Reaches Deal to Sell Boomi to TPG, Francisco Partners Transaction values the cloud-based integration platform at $4 billion including debt
2021-05-02 21:06:00 World Modi’s BJP Suffers Setback in West Bengal State Elections State’s governing Trinamool Congress party was on track early Monday to win as many as 213 seats in the state legislature
2021-05-02 20:34:00 U.S. Suspected Migrant-Packed Vessel Capsizes Near San Diego, Leaving Three Dead Deaths come as authorities increase efforts to combat smuggling migrants by sea
2021-05-02 20:00:00 Life & Arts The Pandemic Prompted Them to Return Home—Now They’re Staying Many young adults who left for different lives in new cities have found comfort in changing their plans and putting down roots closer to family
2021-05-02 19:00:00 U.S. New York Faces Likely Congressional Redistricting Fight After Latest U.S. Census Figures show the state’s delegation will lose a member next year, kicking off high-stakes map making
2021-05-02 19:00:00 Politics Democrats Fall Short in Texas House Race That Some Viewed as a Potential Pick-Up Some say Democrats’ national campaign groups should have invested more in competing for a winnable seat
2021-05-02 17:49:00 Economy Covid-19 Savings Stockpile Could Accelerate Economy—if Consumers Spend It Much of the trillions of dollars in global savings accumulated during the pandemic is held by richer, older people less likely to use it
2021-05-02 17:07:00 Opinion The Russia Collusion Smear Returns Dubious stories about FBI briefings intended to tar Republicans.
2021-05-02 17:06:00 Opinion Capital Gains and Tax ‘Fairness’ Olympia passes a 7% tax on gains, joining 13 states in the 50% club with Biden’s tax hike.
2021-05-02 17:05:00 Opinion The Schools Aren’t Really Open Shortened schedules, ‘zoom in a room,’ and a year of lost learning.
2021-05-02 17:04:00 Opinion Mass Hysteria for $2,000 What is the reaction to a Jeopardy! contestant’s innocent hand gesture?
2021-05-02 16:38:00 Politics Biden’s Plan to Spend $4.5 Trillion Without Boosting Deficits Depends on Factors Beyond His Control To avoid more red ink, the president has to unite Democrats behind his infrastructure and social plans and make sure tax increases aren’t repealed
2021-05-02 16:14:00 Opinion Biden’s Spending Binge Is Costlier Than Advertised The new taxes he proposes would cost money to collect and put a drag on the productive economy.
2021-05-02 16:12:00 Opinion The U.S. Can Support Freedom’s Ferment in Iran Follow the example of the 1975 Helsinki Accords, which helped bring about the Soviet collapse.
2021-05-02 16:12:00 Opinion Want to Go Back to the Office? Don’t Wait on the CDC Businesses should band together and formulate flexible guidance suitable to their own industries.
2021-05-02 16:10:00 Opinion Will Peru Get on the Marxist Path? Presidential front-runner Pedro Castillo favorably quotes Lenin and Castro.
2021-05-02 16:09:00 Opinion ‘Right to Repair’ Is Bad for Your Health Do you want a PET scan from a machine with unauthorized adjustments?
2021-05-02 16:05:00 Books ‘The Secret History of Home Economics’ Review: Engineering the Everyday The creators of home economics believed that science would free women from drudgery—and open the door to professional opportunities.
2021-05-02 15:00:00 Economy Economy Week Ahead: Factories, Trade, Jobs Data are expected to show the U.S. economy fully hitting its stride at the start of the second quarter
2021-05-02 14:20:00 Tech A Tech Company Tried to Limit What Employees Talk About at Work. It Didn’t Go Well. Basecamp’s move to ban political conversations lays bare a sharp divide in the tech industry over how to navigate potentially divisive issues
2021-05-02 13:12:00 Markets Robinhood’s Biggest Business More Than Tripled Amid Trading Frenzy The trading app generated $331 million in payments for order flow during the first three months of 2021
2021-05-02 13:12:00 Life & Arts Manchester United Fans Storm Old Trafford to Protest Super League, Ownership Hundreds of team supporters forced their way into the stadium before Sunday’s match as fury over a breakaway league and the Glazer family’s ownership boiled over
2021-05-02 13:10:00 Politics Biden, Republicans Set Talks Over Competing Infrastructure Plans President Biden invites a lead GOP negotiator to meet this week as he seeks bipartisan agreement on package
2021-05-02 13:06:00 Opinion Sorry, Professor, We’re Cutting You Off Funding higher education now means subsidizing the political activists who have hijacked it.
2021-05-02 12:53:00 Opinion The President’s Speech Stutterers are on stage every day. Joe Biden shows it is possible to persevere.
2021-05-02 12:37:00 Opinion What’s the Best Way to Treat Capital Gains? Bank robber Willie Sutton allegedly said he robbed banks because that is where the money is. The congressional corollary is to tax the middle class because that is where the tax dollars are.
2021-05-02 12:36:00 Opinion Vaccination, Jobs and Citizens Left Behind Why hasn’t the Biden administration sent us vaccines to be administered at the U.S. embassies in our respective countries?
2021-05-02 12:00:00 Life & Arts Career Reboot: From App Developer to Aquarium Ace The gift of a small tank for his desk sparked an unrecognized passion for sea life that’s led to a successful retail business
2021-05-02 12:00:00 Markets TikTok Is the Place To Go for Financial Advice If You’re a Young Adult The short videos are ideal for many people. But is the advice any good?
2021-05-02 11:32:00 Tech Epic vs. Apple Trial: Tim Cook, Tim Sweeney and the Other Key Players in ‘Fortnite’ Maker’s Antitrust Lawsuit Current and former executives of Apple and Epic are among the witnesses who are expected to testify in court
2021-05-02 10:00:00 Tech Epic vs. Apple Trial Features Battle Over How to Define Digital Markets ‘Fortnite’ maker’s suit heads to court Monday, bringing fight over iPhone maker’s App Store before U.S. judge
2021-05-02 10:00:00 Markets PE-Backed Chain Threatens to Shut Two Hospitals Over Financial Dispute With Rhode Island The conflict is one of several involving state and local governments and hospital chains owned by private-equity firms
2021-05-02 09:12:00 Business From Apple to Domino’s Pizza, U.S. Companies Scramble to Meet Surge in Demand Supply-chain snarls and labor shortages crimp some businesses looking to ride rebound in U.S. economy; ‘caught flat-footed’
2021-05-02 09:00:00 Politics What Business Thinks of Biden’s Plans on Infrastructure, Taxes Proposals to boost infrastructure spending welcomed, but companies wary of higher taxes and new regulations
2021-05-02 08:30:00 Politics Andrew Cuomo’s Loudest Supporters: ‘Women for Governor Cuomo’ As the New York governor fights sexual-harassment charges, impeachment and calls to resign, a group of women rallies
2021-05-02 08:00:00 Life & Arts Take Time Off for Vacation? Readers Weigh In Readers share their thoughts on the importance and the difficulty of using their paid time off
2021-05-02 08:00:00 Logistics Report Truckers Expect U.S. Transport Capacity Crunch to Persist Freight demand in a surging American economy is growing well ahead of truck availability, pushing up shipping costs
2021-05-02 08:00:00 Markets For Apollo’s New CEO, Insurance Is In—Racy Buyouts, Not So Much Marc Rowan steers firm toward future as credit-investing titan catering largely to insurers with ample cash to park
2021-05-02 08:00:00 U.S. Tech Jobs Lead the Way in New York City’s Covid-19 Pandemic Hiring There were more openings for tech positions during the pandemic than for any other job in the city, a new study says
2021-05-02 07:00:00 World For China’s Small Businesses, Life Is Still Far From Normal Millions of privately run companies are still struggling, potentially dimming the country’s dazzling recovery
2021-05-02 06:20:00 Business Cargo Pants and Outdoor Slippers Are Hot, as Americans Return to Stores Pent-up demand and comfortable styles are fueling a rebound in U.S. clothing sales as Covid lockdowns lift; ‘2-mile fashion’
2021-05-02 06:00:00 Arts Frieze New York Tests Whether Collectors Will Return to Art Fairs The contemporary art fair opens May 5, with a new location, new safety protocols—and some highly charged new works.
2021-05-02 05:30:00 Business Family of Teacher Who Died After AstraZeneca Shot Seeks Answers Deaths from unusual blood clotting have prompted authorities in Europe to change their guidance regarding the vaccine
2021-05-02 05:30:00 Markets Americans Can’t Get Enough of the Stock Market Households increased stockholdings to 41% of their total financial assets in April
2021-05-02 04:46:00 Business SpaceX Capsule Returns Four Astronauts Safely to Earth in Nighttime Splashdown Capsule returned from the International Space Station, landed safely in the Gulf of Mexico
2021-05-01 19:55:00 Life & Arts Medina Spirit Wins the Kentucky Derby The victory is a record-breaking seventh Derby win for trainer Bob Baffert
2021-05-01 14:46:00 Markets Warren Buffett Defends Berkshire’s Moves Over Pandemic Year The investing guru discusses getting out of the airline sector and other topics at the virtual annual meeting
2021-05-01 12:01:00 Life & Arts ‘Eephus’: A Nothing of a Name for a Perplexing Pitch A super-slow throw by star pitchers and novices has re-emerged in the pandemic-tinged baseball season, with a label of murky origins.
2021-05-01 12:00:00 Tech Five Tech Giants Just Keep Growing Amid the pandemic, results for behemoths such as Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft have surged
2021-05-01 12:00:00 Personal Board of Directors Anna Catalano Is in the Room Where It Happens—In Part Because Someone Spoke Up for Her When She Wasn’t The longtime energy executive has been serving on corporate boards for 18 years. Here, she recounts some of the people who have helped along the way.
2021-05-01 12:00:00 World Venezuela Government Releases U.S. Oil Executives to House Arrest Employees known as the Citgo Six were sentenced to lengthy prison terms in November
2021-05-01 10:25:00 Politics Russia, China Top Agenda as Blinken Visits Ukraine, U.K. Biden’s top diplomat to meet with G-7 counterparts in London, offer assurances of U.S. support in Kyiv
2021-05-01 10:00:00 Life & Arts Driving This 1995 Jeep Wrangler Is ‘Like High-Fiving Somebody’ Jonathan Baker’s dream car brought him closer to his father, and draws waves from other Jeep owners
2021-05-01 09:23:00 Markets Berkshire Hathaway Returns to Quarterly Profit on Insurance, Stock-Market Gains Warren Buffett’s conglomerate reported first-quarter net income of $11.7 billion, compared with a loss of $49.7 billion a year ago
2021-05-01 09:00:00 Tech Decision Day 2021: How Teens Are Sharing College Acceptances (and Rejections) After a Rough Year College-decision posts surge on social media, but many teens post rejection videos to show the reality of college admissions
2021-05-01 09:00:00 Politics GOP’s Blue-Collar Agenda Still a Work in Progress Biden outlined a vision of policies that Democrats believe working-class voters want. Republicans are considering their own blueprints.
2021-05-01 08:00:00 Life & Arts Women Deserve Pockets At the Oscars, Youn Yuh-jung of ‘Minari’ wore a rare thing: a gown with pockets. But even casual clothes like jeans for girls and women often lack proper pockets—the focus of a growing outcry on social media.
2021-05-01 07:35:00 Life & Arts European Soccer’s Forrest Gump From Barcelona to London to Monaco, Cesc Fabregas has always found himself around geniuses, revolutionaries and trophies.
2021-05-01 07:00:00 Art Review ‘What the Nazis Stole From Richard Neumann (and the search to get it back)’ Review: Prized Pieces With History The Worcester Museum of Art exhibits paintings and sculptures on loan from the descendents of a Jewish collector whose art became a casualty of World War II.
2021-05-01 07:00:00 Art Review ‘Mary Ellen Mark: Girlhood’ Review: Twins, Teens and a Runaway Called ‘Tiny’ The National Museum of Women in the Arts brings together a selection of the photojournalist’s celebrated portraits of children and adolescents—no boys allowed.
2021-05-01 06:02:00 World Israel Rolls Out Covid-19 Passport Program to Children, Who Can’t Yet Be Vaccinated Move comes as U.S. and other countries turn their attention to reopening child-centric businesses
2021-05-01 05:30:00 Business U.S. Farmers Look for Government Help to Support Biden’s Climate Plans Big agriculture companies tout sustainability commitments as administration targets emissions; some farmers remain wary, awaiting details
2021-05-01 05:30:00 World Biden’s Foreign Policy Takes a Back Seat to Domestic Priorities On China, Russia and elsewhere, president recasts the U.S. approach, but avoids major initiatives as he focuses energies at home
2021-05-01 05:30:00 World India’s Covid-19 Crisis Raises Pressure to Waive Vaccine Patents Amid widening gap in vaccinations between the rich and poor worlds, developing nations push to loosen intellectual-property restrictions on shots
2021-04-30 23:51:00 World Venezuela Government Releases U.S. Oil Executives to House Arrest Employees known as the Citgo Six were sentenced to lengthy prison terms in November
2021-04-30 21:46:00 U.S. Derek Chauvin Sentencing: Prosecutors Argue for More Than 15 Years Prosecutors cite aggravating factors in seeking more than guidelines recommend; defense argues George Floyd wasn’t ‘particularly vulnerable’
2021-04-30 20:46:00 Markets German Regulator Orders Deutsche Bank to Boost Money-Laundering Controls BaFin is expanding the role of a monitor it appointed in 2018 to look over implementation
2021-04-30 20:01:00 Politics D.C. Statehood Effort Stalls as Manchin Opposes Democrats’ Bill West Virginia senator says he believes a constitutional amendment would be required
2021-04-30 19:53:00 Tech Elon Musk Can Pocket Another $32 Billion of Tesla Shares Billionaire can claim half of stock award after Tesla’s stock gains and financial performance hit targets
2021-04-30 19:42:00 Politics Rudy Giuliani’s Contacts With Former Ukrainian Officials Sought Federal investigators seek evidence related to former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and several former Kyiv officials who pushed for her ouster
2021-04-30 18:40:00 Markets Domino’s, Ford, Kraft Heinz: Stocks That Defined the Week Here are seven major companies whose stocks moved on the week’s news
2021-04-30 18:38:00 Opinion Biden’s Move-Research-Abroad Tax Raise the levy on U.S. intellectual property and you’ll get less of it.
2021-04-30 18:37:00 Opinion The Blue State Gerrymander Walk-Back Illinois and New York Democrats may prefer partisan maps after all.
2021-04-30 18:35:00 Opinion Progressives for Contempt of Court AOC and friends try to turn disbarred Steven Donziger into a martyr.
2021-04-30 18:34:00 Opinion A Backlash Against Bad History GOP Senators warn Cardona about pushing the ‘1619 Project.’
2021-04-30 17:55:00 CIO Journal CIOs Stockpile Equipment, Examine Supply Chain Amid Chip Shortage Continued constraints from global scarcity of semiconductors affect chief information officers across a wide range of companies
2021-04-30 17:18:00 Politics Biden’s $4 Trillion Plan Now Gets Test in Congress As legislation is crafted, some Democrats want changes to infrastructure, education and childcare proposals
2021-04-30 17:15:00 Books Where She Was From: The Collected Joan Didion A multivolume excursion with the writer who wove her voice out of a culture coming apart at the seams.
2021-04-30 17:03:00 U.S. Migrant Families Are Allowed Into U.S. for First Time in More Than a Year Biden administration is unwinding ban on asylum-seeking families at ports of entry that Trump administration implemented at pandemic’s start
2021-04-30 16:53:00 Opinion The Big Tech Oligarchy Calls Out for Trustbusters Concentrations of power in business or government endanger the popular rule envisioned by the founders.
2021-04-30 16:52:00 Opinion What India’s Viral Misery Is Telling Us China take note: The story isn’t over when billions lack the luxury of prioritizing Covid avoidance.
2021-04-30 16:50:00 Pro PE Fund News Bain Capital Raises $11.8 Billion for New Buyout Fund About $1.8 billion for Bain Capital Fund XIII came from current and former employees of the Boston firm
2021-04-30 16:50:00 Opinion Alaska’s Energy Industry Is as Clean as It Gets Biden’s climate plan will kill American jobs and enrich dirty producers in China and Russia.
2021-04-30 16:49:00 Opinion Some, but Not Full, Justice in Chauvin Case But where is the justice for the victims of last year’s riots in Portland, Minneapolis and other cities?
2021-04-30 16:47:00 Opinion Don’t Racially Pigeonhole Children’s Books Children can readily identify with characters who are very different from themselves if the writer has the skill to portray their struggles and triumphs in a way that reveals our common humanity.
2021-04-30 16:47:00 Opinion A New World of AutoTech Raises New Issues Waiting for an available ride-sharing car to show up for your commute will be frustrating.
2021-04-30 16:42:00 Pro Cyber News Internet Privacy Legislation Dies in Florida The state’s lawmakers are the latest to spar over consumers’ right to sue companies
2021-04-30 16:40:00 Life & Arts How a More Resilient America Beat a Midcentury Pandemic In 1957, the U.S. rose to the challenge of the ‘Asian flu’ with stoicism and a high tolerance for risk, offering a stark contrast with today’s approach to Covid-19.
2021-04-30 16:29:00 Opinion Rookie of the Year An architect of the historic Midwest peace plan lands in Chicago.
2021-04-30 16:16:00 Business Shares of Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 Vaccine Startup Trade Down in Debut Vaccitech shares fell 17% from IPO price in their trading debut
2021-04-30 16:14:00 U.S. U.S. National Security Surveillance Dropped in 2020 as Pandemic Kept Suspects at Home Travel restrictions and event cancellations drove down need for court-approved wiretaps, officials say
2021-04-30 16:13:00 Masterpiece More Than Fun and Games Clarence H. White’s ‘The Ring Toss’ was composed with all the intention of a painting or a sculpture.
2021-04-30 16:12:00 Politics U.S. Will Restrict Travel From India Starting Tuesday The move comes as concerns mount over a record surge in coronavirus cases in India
2021-04-30 16:10:00 World Biden to Steer Between Obama, Trump Policies on North Korea Review concludes a ‘big bang’ approach won’t work; neither will ‘strategic patience’
2021-04-30 15:51:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Siemens Promotes Company Insider to Compliance Chief Annette Kraus will succeed Martina Maier
2021-04-30 15:44:00 Politics Illinois Democrat Cheri Bustos Says She Won’t Seek Re-Election Lawmaker had stepped down as head of House Democrats’ campaign arm after party’s disappointing showing in 2020
2021-04-30 15:41:00 Business 3M Loses First Trial Over Military Earplugs Federal jury awards $7.1 million to three veterans
2021-04-30 15:33:00 Experience Report Tech Firms Tweak Work Tools to Grapple with ‘Digital Exhaustion’ Workplace experts say it’s a start, but the new features don’t fully address the burnout and isolation of at-home workers
2021-04-30 15:32:00 Life & Arts Networking Makes a Comeback for the Class of 2021 As hiring rebounds, trawling job-listing sites is out; making personal connections is in
2021-04-30 14:24:00 Real Estate Growing Roses for Beginners: The Secrets to Success in the Garden Have roses’ reputation for fussiness put you off them? These experts’ advice for wary gardeners might recultivate your interest
2021-04-30 14:15:00 Opinion The Man They Couldn’t Cancel Mobs have targeted Jordan Peterson, but he hasn’t lost his university job and his publishers have stuck by him. What’s his secret?
2021-04-30 14:14:00 Opinion To the Moon and Back With Michael Collins, 1930-2021 My fellow astronaut was a great pilot, a great friend and a great patriot.
2021-04-30 13:59:00 Life & Arts The Power of Making Art Together A new exhibition by contemporary Native American artists Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger enlists the public as a partner.
2021-04-30 13:29:00 Markets Exxon Mobil, Chevron Face Tough Investor Crowd U.S. oil majors are making money again, but it will take more to assuage shareholders
2021-04-30 13:28:00 Tech TikTok Names ByteDance Finance Chief as New CEO Shou Zi Chew to retain post at TikTok’s parent company
2021-04-30 13:19:00 Business Roku Drops YouTube TV App in Carriage Dispute The streaming-device maker and Google, YouTube’s parent, are at odds over the way search results are displayed on Roku’s platform
2021-04-30 13:05:00 Life & Arts New Countryside Getaways With Exquisite Food by Big-City Chefs Some big food-world names have left the major metropolises to take over the kitchens—and kitchen gardens—of country hotels, just as hungry vacationers are ready to gulp up spring
2021-04-30 13:03:00 World India’s Covid-19 Surge Worsens as Nation Stumbles in Vaccine Expansion As country opens doses to all adults, many people can’t book appointments and many states say they are running too low on supplies
2021-04-30 12:06:00 Life & Arts Peaches Golding Is a Pioneering Representative of the Crown An African-American businesswoman who serves as an official of Queen Elizabeth knows ‘the power of visibility.’
2021-04-30 11:45:00 Books What to Read This Week Malcolm Gladwell on the terrible endgame of a bombing campaign, Joan Didion’s collected accounts of the American scene, Napoleon the art thief, Victorian mediums and more.
2021-04-30 11:19:00 Life & Arts Cauliflower Turmeric Soup There’s a reason cauliflower keeps trending. It makes this turmeric-tinged soup both creamy and light.
2021-04-30 11:13:00 Life & Arts Why This Vegan Cauliflower Recipe Is Perfect for Everyone There’s a reason cauliflower keeps trending. It makes this turmeric-tinged soup both creamy and light.
2021-04-30 11:09:00 Markets Biden Tax Plan’s Potential Impact on Your IRA For people with traditional retirement accounts, Roth conversions may gain traction this year
2021-04-30 11:01:00 Politics U.S. Says China Must Do More to Protect Intellectual Property Trade office says measures Beijing has adopted in the last year don’t go far enough
2021-04-30 11:00:00 Business Buffett Stands Alone, but Companies Should Open Door to Older CEOs The Berkshire Hathaway leader’s five-decade tenure will always be an outlier, but companies are often too quick to force chief executives into retirement
2021-04-30 11:00:00 Markets What Happens When Stocks Only Go Up Losing your fear of bear markets can lead to complacency—and new risks
2021-04-30 10:54:00 Markets Warren Buffett Faces Impatient Investors as Berkshire Hathaway Returns Decline Institutional shareholders are pressing for change on climate and governance at the Omaha, Neb., conglomerate
2021-04-30 10:35:00 Markets Credit Suisse Gets the Fixer It Needs New Chairman António Horta-Osório shows every sign of being up for the challenge of gaining control of the embattled bank
2021-04-30 10:30:00 Business More Than 90 New Airlines Are Launching in 2021. They Say It’s the Perfect Time. A host of upstart carriers around the world have plans to take flight by the end of the year; ‘The timing is pretty good, actually.’
2021-04-30 10:24:00 Books Fiction: Rachel Cusk’s ‘Second Place’ Review A middle-aged woman in thrall to a wizard-like artist is at the center of Rachel Cusk’s novel.
2021-04-30 10:16:00 Books ‘The Bomber Mafia’ Review: Architects of a Firestorm The promise of high-tech precision bombing gave way to more brutal methods as World War II dragged on.
2021-04-30 09:58:00 China China Beefs Up Antimonopoly Body Amid Regulatory Push Beijing’s antitrust watchdog grows as it wades through a backlog of regulatory cases
2021-04-30 09:57:00 Markets Nestlé’s New Growth Pill Needs Extra Ingredients The price Nestlé is paying for vitamin supplement specialist Bountiful reflects the overhaul required
2021-04-30 09:52:00 Books ‘Plunder’ Review: Stealing Beauty Napoleon Bonaparte was determined to pick off Europe’s finest masterpieces. In Venice, he went all out.
2021-04-30 09:30:00 Politics The Biden White House Runs on a Tight Script. The President Doesn’t. The administration’s message and policy rollouts have been tightly choreographed, but events—and Mr. Biden—have sometimes disrupted those plans
2021-04-30 09:12:00 Books ‘Secrets of Happiness’ Review: The Will to Be Canny Greed may be a universal failing, but its particularities awake a novelist’s interest.
2021-04-30 09:08:00 Books ‘Out of the Shadows’ Review: Spirited Women As the fashion for supernatural phenomena swept Europe and America, its practitioners rallied behind earthly causes, too.
2021-04-30 09:05:00 Books ‘See/Saw’ Review: Every Picture Tells a Story Photographs have a way of making the past startlingly present, connecting us to the eye behind the camera.
2021-04-30 09:03:00 Life & Arts Why the Planet Needs Cute Monsters Altered and cloned creatures invite us to confront a future in which technology manipulates nature as never before—to save it
2021-04-30 09:02:00 Books Five Best: Novels on Slavery and the Civil War Selected by Dorothy Wickenden, the author, most recently, of ‘The Agitators.’
2021-04-30 09:00:00 Politics Biden’s Covid-19 Vaccine Push Faces Hesitancy, Variants After 100 Days The pandemic challenge is shifting after his first few months in office were focused on ramping up vaccine distribution
2021-04-30 08:58:00 Books Children’s Books: ‘The Secret Life of Stars’ Review In distant galaxies, spectacular goings-on.
2021-04-30 08:43:00 Life & Arts Aaron Rodgers Demanded a Trade from the Packers and Stole the NFL Draft The quarterback’s desire to leave town overshadowed the draft and left Green Bay in a lurch
2021-04-30 08:39:00 Arts From Doja Cat to Prince: the Best Songs You Should Be Listening to Right Now Here’s WSJ.’s monthly roundup of new pop releases—everything that’s grabbing our attention, making us think or getting us dancing.
2021-04-30 08:07:00 Business Ad Spending Jumps as Companies Ride Economic Rebound Marketers are expected to spend 15% more on advertising than last year, with digital advertising getting ever-larger slice of ad dollars
2021-04-30 07:50:00 World As Covid-19 Vaccine Campaign Accelerates in Europe, Optimism Swells Despite Recession With the EU’s vaccine rollout picking up, a slew of indicators suggest the economy is poised to bounce back
2021-04-30 07:45:00 Tech From Tablets to Sex Toys, the Chip Shortage Is Far-Reaching Scarcity means higher price tags for consumers, longer waits for goods, empty store shelves and swaths of the business world racing to secure whatever supply they can
2021-04-30 07:20:00 Markets Profits and Politics in China’s Tech Crackdown
2021-04-30 07:06:00 Asia China Orders Tech Giants to Unbundle Financial Services Companies have turned their mobile payment apps into financial supermarkets, offering loans and insurance policies. No more, says Beijing.
2021-04-30 07:01:00 Life & Arts You Only Need One Beauty Product—This Is It After a year spent mostly makeup-less, women are loath to resume time-consuming beauty routines. Easy, all-in-one products offer a solution.
2021-04-30 07:00:00 Markets For Food Delivery, Covid-19 Was a Sugar High A new analysis suggests some heavy indigestion ahead for companies in the industry
2021-04-30 06:56:00 Business Chevron Returns to Profit as Oil Rebounds From Pandemic The second-largest U.S. oil company posted $1.4 billion in net income despite headwinds from February’s Texas freeze
2021-04-30 06:49:00 Markets Stock Futures Edge Down After S&P 500 Hits Record Technology stocks are poised to lead major indexes lower on concern that global Covid-19 waves and snarling supply chains could stoke inflation
2021-04-30 06:38:00 Tech Apple Faces EU Antitrust Charges Over App Store Payments in Spotify Case EU accuses Apple of forcing many apps to use its in-app payment system on which it takes commissions, saying it ‘distorted competition’ in music streaming
2021-04-30 06:23:00 Business Nestlé Expands in Vitamins With $5.75 Billion Nature’s Bounty Deal Swiss food giant agreed to buy Bountiful’s main brands, pushing further into nutrition
2021-04-30 06:16:00 Life & Arts 2021 Ferrari Roma: A High-Tech Sports Car With a Midcentury Look Though the Roma’s design calls back to the days of la dolce vita, its interfaces have been digitized, virtualized, stylized and touchpad-enabled, finds Dan Neil
2021-04-30 06:07:00 Markets Barclays Profit Surges But Higher Costs Weigh on Performance London-based lender earned $2.37 billion in the first three months of the year
2021-04-30 06:00:00 Business For Music-Rights Deals, the Hits Keep Coming Tempo, a private-equity-backed partnership, has a billion-dollar war chest as it invests in the Jonas Brothers, Wiz Khalifa among others
2021-04-30 05:30:00 Politics After Census Release, a Flood of Lawsuits Apportionment data prompts legal battles over redistricting as Republicans and Democrats vie for edge
2021-04-30 05:30:00 Markets Rally in Transportation Stocks Nears 122-Year-Old Record Streak Gains underscore investors’ expectations that rebounding economy will boost companies carrying goods, raw materials
2021-04-30 05:30:00 Economy Covid-19 Stimulus Checks Likely Drove Record Rise in Household Income Higher income, spending and saving are expected to help power a fast economic recovery
2021-04-30 05:30:00 Derby’s Take: Fed’s Powell Is Unworried by China’s Digital Currency
2021-04-30 05:30:00 U.S. Is Covid-19 Fading From Our Lives? Consumer App Use Provides Clues Americans are making dinner reservations, planning vacations and heading back to salons. Entertainment venues are recovering slowly.
2021-04-30 05:30:00 Markets BlackRock Takes Aggressive Posture on ESG Proxy Votes Asset manager signals it is boosting its support of shareholder-led environmental, social and governance proposals
2021-04-30 05:30:00 Business The Covid-19 Vaccine Club: How the World’s Biggest Producers Depend on Each Other Trade experts warn that restrictions on vaccine exports risk squeezing production just when it is needed most
2021-04-30 05:30:00 Markets Death and Taxes: Biden Wants to Step Down the ‘Step-Up’ on Investment Gains The new administration’s proposal would curtail a longstanding tax exemption for investment appreciation, a potentially significant tax hit to affluent Americans when they die
2021-04-30 05:30:00 U.S. What Happens When Opinion Polls Move Online Pew and the University of Michigan shifted established surveys from the phone to the web this year
2021-04-30 04:43:00 World Palestinian Authority President Postpones Parliamentary Vote May elections would have been first vote in West Bank, Gaza since 2006
2021-04-30 02:48:00 Markets Credit Suisse Risk Chief Won’t Stand for Re-Election After Archegos Implosion Hours before bank’s annual meeting, it said Andreas Gottschling wouldn’t stand for reappointment
2021-04-30 02:03:00 World China’s Economic Recovery From Covid-19 Shows Signs of Slowing Official gauges of manufacturing and service-sector activity fall short of expectations
2021-04-29 23:43:00 World Dozens Killed in Stampede at Israeli Religious Festival The tragedy occurred during celebration of Jewish holiday Lag b’Omer
2021-04-29 23:28:00 U.S. Florida Republicans Pass Bill Tightening Voting Rules Legislature approves bill that includes new rules for voting by mail and drop boxes; it now heads to Gov. Ron DeSantis
2021-04-29 20:52:00 U.S. Unusual Supreme Court Majority Rules in Favor of Guatemalan Who Entered U.S. Illegally At issue was how the government notified immigrants of deportation hearings; role of the article ‘a’ possibly has far-reaching consequences
2021-04-29 19:37:00 Risk & Compliance Journal New Zealand Scores Well on Anti-Money-Laundering, but Gaps Remain, Watchdog Says The Financial Action Task Force said the country has set up some effective measures to combat money-laundering and terrorist financing
2021-04-29 19:32:00 Politics Pence Levels Critique of Biden as He Eyes Possible 2024 Bid Former vice president spoke in South Carolina, where first presidential primary in the South is traditionally held
2021-04-29 19:04:00 Pro Bankruptcy NRA Says Elephant Hunt Video Was Leaked to Embarrass LaPierre An NRA lawyer blamed its former ad agency for sharing footage of Wayne LaPierre struggling to hunt an elephant days before he was set to testify at trial, which it has denied
2021-04-29 18:48:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Justice Department’s Foreign Bribery Chief Moves to Private Practice Christopher Cestaro had served as head of the department’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Unit since July 2019
2021-04-29 18:42:00 Opinion Two Very Different but Plainspoken Speeches Biden and Scott put forth their visions at a time when Americans may be reconsidering theirs.
2021-04-29 18:41:00 Opinion The Post-Pandemic Boom Biden inherited a very strong economic recovery, not a house ‘on fire.’
2021-04-29 18:38:00 Opinion Tim Scott’s GOP Revival Message A powerful rebuttal to Joe Biden’s big government agenda.
2021-04-29 18:36:00 Opinion The Chamber of Commerce’s Bill Comes Due The business lobby backed 23 Democrats, who will likely back Biden’s business taxes.
2021-04-29 18:34:00 Opinion The Pie That Must Not Be Named On Derby Day, combine chocolate, bourbon, nuts and trademark litigation.
2021-04-29 18:34:00 Opinion Nasdaq’s Boardroom Diversity Push Isn’t Evidence-Based The stock exchange cherry-picks studies to show a positive effect on firm performance.
2021-04-29 18:34:00 Opinion The Prospects of American Religion Have Never Been Higher Brick-and-mortar religious communities are shrinking, but digital worship is growing.
2021-04-29 18:33:00 Books ‘Names of New York’ Review: Duyvil’s Dictionary ‘Kill’ is Old Dutch for creek, yet it’s hard not to think of something different when contemplating the former Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island.
2021-04-29 18:33:00 Markets Amazon Avoids Recovery Blues E-commerce growth accelerates and profits soar, even in comparison to last year’s pandemic boost
2021-04-29 18:30:00 Opinion Samuel Alito’s Culture-War Warning The Justices punt on California’s sanctions against Texas.
2021-04-29 18:15:00 Business Joe Rogan Seeks to Clarify His Comments on Young People and Vaccines Popular podcast host says ‘I’m not an anti-vax person,’ on most recent episode
2021-04-29 17:40:00 Life & Arts Chile Crisp Rice Krispies Treats The Rice Krispies Treat is the simplest of sweets and an ideal canvas for creativity
2021-04-29 17:37:00 Life & Arts The “Campfire” Rice Krispies Treats The Rice Krispies Treat is the simplest of sweets and an ideal canvas for creativity
2021-04-29 17:31:00 U.S. Two Deputies Killed in North Carolina Standoff; Suspect and Two Family Members Also Dead Both officers were hit by gunfire; the individual suspected of killing the two officers is also suspected of killing two civilians in the residence
2021-04-29 17:31:00 Life & Arts Coke-N-Peanuts Rice Krispies Treats Pastry pros take the classic cruncher to another level
2021-04-29 17:30:00 Life & Arts Seedy Rice Krispies Treats Pastry pros take the classic cruncher to another level
2021-04-29 17:22:00 Business Boeing’s Latest 737 MAX Problem Spurs FAA Audit Agency is reviewing how a minor change in Boeing production led to a new safety issue for the jet, following a nearly two-year grounding
2021-04-29 17:16:00 Markets Brightening U.S. Prospects Send Government Bond Yields Higher Benchmark 10-year Treasury yield touches highest intraday level in more than two weeks
2021-04-29 17:15:00 Film Review ‘Golden Arm’ Review: Flexing Their Comedic Muscles A gender-bending buddy comedy about two arm wrestlers played by Mary Holland and Betsy Sodaro has all the makings of a cult hit
2021-04-29 17:13:00 Film Review ‘Percy Vs Goliath’ Review: Taking On an Agriculture Giant Christopher Walken plays the Canadian farmer who stood up to agribusiness Monsanto in this real-life underdog story.
2021-04-29 17:11:00 Film Review ‘About Endlessness’ Review: Brevity and Universality The critically esteemed director Roy Andersson presents vignettes that form a poignant portrait of the human experience.
2021-04-29 17:10:00 Politics Push to Overhaul Military Sexual-Assault Prosecutions Gains Momentum Republican Sen. Joni Ernst introduces legislation with Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
2021-04-29 16:41:00 Business Pork Plants Face Slower Hog Slaughter After Court Ruling USDA tells meatpackers that processing lines must slow after court rules on speeds; industry fears hog backlog
2021-04-29 16:35:00 Life & Arts Rice Krispies Treats Remixed: Pro Tips and Recipes It’s the simplest of sweets and an ideal canvas for creativity. Here, pastry pros take the classic cruncher to another level, with sly tweaks ranging from toasted marshmallows to chile crisp.
2021-04-29 16:32:00 Markets Endeavor Shares Rise in Market Debut Trading valued the entertainment company at $10.44 billion
2021-04-29 16:32:00 Pro Cyber News Ransomware Poses a Threat to National Security, Report Warns Tech companies urge U.S. to make sweeping policy and legal changes to combat cybercriminals
2021-04-29 16:31:00 Books Bestselling Books Week Ended April 24 With data from NPD BookScan
2021-04-29 16:17:00 CFO Journal HanesBrands Names New CFO as Pandemic, E-Commerce Weigh on Its Business Michael Dastugue, a former Walmart executive, will serve as finance chief of the underwear maker
2021-04-29 15:59:00 Real Estate The Best Outdoor Design Finds From Three Catalogs We asked an interior design pro to scour new offerings for patios and decks from Ballard, West Elm and Pottery Barn. She zeroed in on a rug, a dining chair and al fresco dishes.
2021-04-29 15:55:00 Opinion ‘A Picture of Autumn’ Review: The Waning Days of Aristocracy The Mint Theater Company streams the 2013 U.S. premiere of a 1951 ‘sad comedy’ by N.C. Hunter, a first-rate British playwright whose work has long been out of fashion.
2021-04-29 15:55:00 Politics SAP Admits Iran Sanction Violations to Justice Department German software company given some leniency in paying penalty after admitting to millions of dollars in proscribed sales up until 2017
2021-04-29 15:52:00 Television Review ‘The Drowning’ Review: When the Past Resurfaces In a compelling miniseries, a chance sighting convinces a mother that the son she lost in a tragic accident is not gone after all.
2021-04-29 15:13:00 Life & Arts Prosecco Rosé: The Bottles Actually Worth Buying This Summer The newly official Prosecco rosé designation may be a marketing coup, but does the winemaking live up to the hype? Yes and no, says our wine columnist. Here, her top 5 picks.
2021-04-29 15:11:00 World As Covid-19 Cases Surge in India, Modi’s Party Is Poised for Gains Prime minister, other politicians criticized for holding massive campaign rallies amid spread of the coronavirus
2021-04-29 14:59:00 CFO Journal Luxury Retailer Tapestry Names VF Executive as CFO Scott Roe is set to join the parent of Coach and Kate Spade in June
2021-04-29 14:57:00 U.S. Biden’s Capital-Gains Tax Plan Would Upend Estate Planning by the Wealthy President’s proposal would tax gains on appreciated assets at death
2021-04-29 14:54:00 Opinion Is Drug Good for Some Alzheimer’s Patients? My perspective is that of a man who lost his wife to Alzheimer’s after 10 years of hell on earth for both of us. It’s incomprehensible to me that the promising drug aducanumab isn’t approved already by the FDA.
2021-04-29 14:53:00 Opinion Immigration Is a Moral Issue, but Is Complex How one treats a stranger is a moral issue. But national immigration policy must consider different factors from those relevant to one’s treatment of a stranger.
2021-04-29 14:53:00 Opinion European Super League Resembled Our MLB The failed European soccer Super League was nothing more than a scheme by the biggest clubs to insulate themselves from competition.
2021-04-29 14:35:00 Health AstraZeneca Struggles With Data Needed for Covid-19 Vaccine’s Approval Company is assembling data for FDA review, hoping for another stamp of regulatory backing in global rollout of its shot
2021-04-29 13:52:00 Markets Auto-Parts Retailers Still Have Room to Run Harsh winter weather and new-car supply constraints should help prospects for auto-parts retailers
2021-04-29 12:42:00 Opinion Facts Check Biden Despite what Americans heard from the President, his government reports the economy was soaring as he took office.
2021-04-29 12:32:00 Opinion India’s Covid Crisis Could Reach You Too As the coronavirus rages inside its borders, new variants threaten to spread around the world.
2021-04-29 12:32:00 Opinion Sheldon Whitehouse Is No Friend of the Courts The senator declares war on amicus briefs and attacks the right to express views he disfavors.
2021-04-29 12:25:00 Business Cruise Lines Could Start U.S. Sailings by Mid-July, CDC Says The update paves the way for the restart of operations that have been suspended for longer than a year amid the Covid-19 pandemic
2021-04-29 12:18:00 World Iran Floods Clubhouse to Drown Out Debate While China and other countries fence off foreign social-media sites, Tehran tries to use them to its advantage
2021-04-29 11:27:00 Life & Arts Behind Biden’s Big Spending Plans, the Waning Sway of Economic Caution A generation of centrists who served Democratic and Republican presidents for three decades are exiting the stage, as the administration charts a new course on spending, deficits and inflation.
2021-04-29 11:24:00 Markets The Economy Isn’t Too Hot for the Fed Investors should take the Federal Reserve at its word that it will stand pat even as the economy is poised to vault past its pre-Covid-19 high
2021-04-29 11:08:00 Markets Oil’s Rebound Greases the Way for Energy Giants’ Green Pitch Higher cash flows and payouts are attracting investors back to Shell and BP, giving them much-needed time to sell their transition plans
2021-04-29 10:59:00 Business Global Chip Shortage Set to Worsen for Car Makers Auto makers anticipate a slower recovery in chip supplies following the fire at Japan’s Renesas semiconductor factory and the Texas freeze
2021-04-29 10:45:00 Markets Energy-Focused Hedge Fund Luminus Liquidates Some Assets Firm has unwound positions in main fund after Covid-19 pandemic roiled oil-and-gas markets, and drawing money instead for clean-energy investments
2021-04-29 10:38:00 U.S. Is the U.S. Student Loan Program Facing a $500 Billion Hole? One Banker Thinks So. Government sees it as a moneymaker. Former JPMorgan executive sees a giant loss looming due to rosy repayment hopes.
2021-04-29 10:02:00 U.S. Manhattan District Attorney Candidates Walk Tightrope on Trump Probe Contenders won’t talk about the office’s highest-profile investigation but are pointing to experience with white-collar crime cases
2021-04-29 09:47:00 Life & Arts The Thrill and Melancholy of Jacob deGrom and the Mets He’s the most riveting pitcher in baseball, and throwing better than ever. If only his ball club could score him more runs.
2021-04-29 09:46:00 Politics Tim Scott Counters Biden’s Speech on Racial Issues, Spending Plans In the GOP response, South Carolina senator says Democrats are dividing the country
2021-04-29 09:41:00 Tech The Best (and Safest) Bike Helmets for Casual Riders, Mountain Bikers and More Protective gear reduces the risk of head injuries by more than 50%—but you need a helmet specifically designed for your cycling style. Here, our picks.
2021-04-29 09:33:00 Life & Arts The U.S. Navy’s Not-So-Secret Recipes for Cheesecake and ‘Ronnie Burgers’ As a goodwill gesture, sailors stationed in Yokosuka, Japan, told locals how to serve up New York-style cheesecake and hamburgers. Here’s how it’s done.
2021-04-29 09:03:00 Politics Biden Tax Plan Leans on Banks to Help Find Unreported Income The proposal would require banks to report annual account inflows and outflows to the Internal Revenue Service
2021-04-29 09:00:00 Business The Next Bet in Music: Artist Services As money rushes into catalogs, one music company is going the other way, investing in ways to help artists distribute, market and collect royalties on their music
2021-04-29 09:00:00 U.S. Biden’s First 100 Days: Covid-19 Relief Package, Executive Orders and Appointments A look at the president’s first few months in office by the numbers
2021-04-29 08:50:00 Tech Chinese Financial Regulators Issue Warning to Big Tech Firms Regulators orders large technology companies including Tencent and JD.com to rectify financial business practices seen as risky
2021-04-29 08:38:00 Politics Biden’s Economic Plan Would Redistribute Trillions and Expand Government President seeks muscular role for the federal government in economy, helping middle and working class at the expense of businesses and the wealthy
2021-04-29 08:35:00 World China Advances Space Station Ambition With Module Launch Xi says Tianhe module’s launch marks an important step toward becoming powerful in science, technology and aerospace
2021-04-29 08:31:00 Real Estate Why Home Equity Loans Are Still So Hard to Come By Several top banks have yet to resume originating Helocs, and demand for refinancings may be to blame
2021-04-29 08:00:00 CFO Journal Discovery Breaks Out Streaming Unit’s Performance Metrics to Showcase Transformation The HGTV and Food Network parent company is expanding into streaming as its pay-TV business declines
2021-04-29 07:35:00 Markets Ford Is Right to Fear Getting Left Behind Auto maker issued downbeat guidance for 2021, even after posting record-breaking quarterly results
2021-04-29 07:23:00 World Strongman’s Death Spotlights Complexity of Africa’s Desert Wars Death of Chad’s president in battle deals a blow to a French-led stabilization strategy in the Sahel region
2021-04-29 07:00:00 Markets How Biden’s Tax Plan Would Affect Investors President’s proposal calls for a near doubling of the capital-gains tax rate; here are some answers to investors’ questions
2021-04-29 06:47:00 Markets Facebook, Twitter, eBay, Apple: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today Earnings are due from Amazon, Twitter and Gilead Sciences
2021-04-29 06:42:00 Markets Stock Futures Rise on Stimulus Prospects S&P 500 futures rally, pointing to benchmark climbing toward record closing level
2021-04-29 06:30:00 CMO Today CMOs’ Time in Their Posts Continues to Grow Shorter The tenure of chief marketing officers shrank again last year, according to the latest Spencer Stuart study
2021-04-29 06:00:00 Markets Carlyle Turns Profit as Investment Values Rise 15% The Washington-based firm said assets under management reached $260 billion as of March 31
2021-04-29 06:00:00 CMO Today Marketers Plan Study to Shine Light on the Murky Business of Automated Ad Buying The study will focus on billions of dollars that marketers say are unaccounted for in the automated ad-buying process, as well as other transparency concerns
2021-04-29 05:33:00 Markets Stocks Are Off to Best Start to a Presidential Term Since Great Depression S&P 500 has risen 10% since Mr. Biden’s Jan. 20 inauguration
2021-04-29 05:30:00 Politics Biden’s Challenge: Pushing His Agenda in Congress as Window Narrows President has proposed about $6 trillion in spending across three packages this year
2021-04-29 05:30:00 Economy Unemployment Claims Are Expected to Reach Fresh Covid-19 Low A recent decrease in worker filings for jobless benefits is among signs of an improving labor market
2021-04-29 05:30:00 Tech Amazon Earnings Are Poised to Surge Further E-commerce, cloud-computing and ad services are expected to show strong pandemic demand
2021-04-29 05:30:00 Markets Unemployment-Benefits Fraud Has Soared in the Pandemic. Here’s What to Do. Protect your Social Security number and other personal information whether or not you are an identity-theft victim
2021-04-29 05:30:00 Economy U.S. Economy Appears to Be Lifting Off GDP likely grew robustly in the first quarter as the government distributed Covid-19 stimulus checks and consumers stepped up spending
2021-04-29 04:43:00 World China’s Population Increased in 2020, Government Says Statistics bureau offers no details, saying only that detailed data would be released in its coming once-a-decade census report
2021-04-29 04:31:00 Markets ‘Earnings to the Moon’ Is Just Latest Justification for Frothy Market The trouble with this line of reasoning is it is hard to square with last year’s market logic
2021-04-29 03:46:00 Markets Beijing’s Squeeze on Fragile Real-Estate Developers Is Getting Real Broad bank lending to the real-estate sector, and developers’ access to bond markets, are both being squeezed; the companies are increasingly dependent on large deposits from home buyers
2021-04-29 01:00:00 Business Moderna to Boost Covid-19 Vaccine Production to Meet Rising Global Demand Company aims to triple production next year to as much as three billion doses
2021-04-28 23:46:00 Politics Biden’s Joint Address to Congress: Key Takeaways The president pitched his American Families Plan, immigration reform and getting vaccinated
2021-04-28 23:19:00 Tech Samsung’s Profit Jumps on Strong Demand for Consumer Tech South Korean tech giant posts 46% rise in first-quarter net profit
2021-04-28 21:41:00 Tech Facebook Blocks, Then Restores, Content Calling on Indian Prime Minister Modi to Resign Social-media giant said it erroneously censored posts tagged with #ResignModi as India faces devastating Covid-19 surge
2021-04-28 21:08:00 Politics Biden Judicial Nominees Testify in Senate Panel Hearing Diversity is a focus as committee considers two Black women tapped for appeals court positions
2021-04-28 20:49:00 Markets Biden’s Tax Plan Includes Paid Leave and Reducing Child-Care Costs for Parents The $1.8 trillion American Families Plan could save some families money
2021-04-28 20:37:00 Business Amazon Raising Pay for Hundreds of Thousands of Workers Employees to receive pay increases ranging from 50 cents to $3 an hour
2021-04-28 19:25:00 Markets Facebook Needs Users to Shop, Not Drop As user engagement wanes in key areas, the social-media company is hustling to bolster direct shopping channels to maintain its edge
2021-04-28 19:24:00 Markets Apple Couldn’t Dodge Chip Pain Forever Sales surged in the March quarter, but the iPhone maker warned constraints would be felt in June period
2021-04-28 19:21:00 Markets Private Equity and Hedge Funds, Facing a New Tax Burden, Prepare Their Defense Wall Street firms that benefit from carried-interest treatment say Biden’s proposal could discourage small-business investment
2021-04-28 19:02:00 Opinion Biden’s Cradle-to-Grave Government His latest $1.8 trillion plan rejects the old social contract of work for benefits.
2021-04-28 18:57:00 Opinion The Latest Earmark Excuse They won’t help Congress debate spending honestly.
2021-04-28 18:56:00 Opinion No Escape From Hong Kong New legislation lets the government block people from leaving.
2021-04-28 18:54:00 U.S. Pipeline Dispute Draws Competing Concerns from Supreme Court Justices consider whether pipeline developer can use federal power to seize state land
2021-04-28 18:53:00 Opinion Beefless Journalism To address climate change, Epicurious deserts beef recipes.
2021-04-28 18:46:00 Opinion The Music City Meltdown A decade ago Nashville’s rise seemed inevitable, but fiscal recklessness left the city ill-prepared to absorb the pandemic’s economic blows.
2021-04-28 18:37:00 Opinion Your Woke Money Is No Good Here Corporations have taken advantage of Republicans for too long. I won’t take their PAC dollars anymore.
2021-04-28 18:35:00 Opinion Lockdowns Give School Choice a Boost Under Biden, advocates expected a setback. But the movement has notched notable victories this year.
2021-04-28 18:33:00 Opinion Government Won’t Fix the Semiconductor Shortage The semiconductor and auto industries will resolve the issue before politicians finish assigning blame.
2021-04-28 18:32:00 Opinion A New Coalition to Advance U.S. Global Interests We hope to unite people who disagreed on Trump behind six principles of American foreign policy.
2021-04-28 18:19:00 Politics Biden Gambles on His Feel for the Voters He senses they agree with his view that expansive domestic initiatives are needed to address the problems confronting the nation
2021-04-28 18:11:00 Opinion Joe Biden’s Art of the Non-Deal Negotiating with the opposition, the left concluded, merely impedes achieving their policy goals.
2021-04-28 18:08:00 Books ‘Peace, Poverty and Betrayal’ Review: To Oblige and Rule Britain’s connection to India shaped the views of political philosophers and goaded the British into major reforms, at home and abroad.
2021-04-28 18:02:00 U.S. Florida GOP Lawmakers Advance Voting-Law Changes Legislation including new rules on drop boxes and voter identification heads back to the Senate
2021-04-28 17:57:00 Deals Verizon Explores Sale of Media Assets, Including Parts of Yahoo and AOL Private-equity firms including Apollo are among possible bidders for Verizon media assets, sources say
2021-04-28 17:57:00 Politics Senate Votes to Reverse Trump-Era Loosening of Methane Emission Rules Lawmakers backed restoring regulations for emissions that leak into the air from oil and gas production
2021-04-28 17:55:00 U.S. Supreme Court Weighs Limits to Schools’ Power to Patrol Student Speech Angry cheerleader’s intemperate Snapchat drew a yearlong suspension from team that Pennsylvania school board asks court to reinstate
2021-04-28 17:55:00 Politics Amazon’s Bid to Recover JEDI Cloud Computing Contract Stays Alive Federal judge rejects motions by Pentagon and Microsoft to dismiss much of its award challenge
2021-04-28 17:55:00 World France’s Macron Eyes Artificial Intelligence to Monitor Terrorism The move comes as the French president comes under pressure to crack down on terrorism and Islamist separatism
2021-04-28 17:39:00 U.S. Rudy Giuliani’s New York Apartment Searched by Federal Investigators Authorities seize the former New York City mayor’s electronic devices in investigation into possible violation of foreign-lobbying rules
2021-04-28 17:38:00 U.S. New SEC Enforcement Director Alex Oh Resigns, Agency Says Official had been on job for just a few days
2021-04-28 17:27:00 U.S. What Does Biden’s Plan for Families Mean for Community College, Pre-K? The $1.8 trillion plan would offer students four more years of free schooling
2021-04-28 17:23:00 U.S. Three Men in Ahmaud Arbery Killing Charged With Federal Hate Crimes Black jogger’s shooting death in Georgia in 2020 sparked outcry; three white defendants have pleaded not guilty to state murder charges
2021-04-28 17:21:00 Economy Transcript: Fed Chief Powell’s Postmeeting Press Conference
2021-04-28 17:21:00 Business Ford Posts Highest Quarterly Net Income in Years Auto maker warns the toll from the global chip shortage will continue, though it expects the situation to improve after June
2021-04-28 17:09:00 Arts After a Viral Love Song, Girl in Red Debuts Her New Album The Norwegian alternative artist is part of a new wave of pop musicians who are bringing a rawer, more intimate sound that centers introspection and emotional honesty
2021-04-28 17:05:00 Markets Biden’s Tax Plan Expands Federal Grants, But Doesn’t Include Student Loan Forgiveness The $1.8 trillion dollar plan includes provisions aimed at reducing the amount of student debt taken on by students in the future
2021-04-28 16:56:00 Opinion D.C. Statehood Needs a Constitutional Fix To make D.C. a state or to continue it as a district while granting full congressional representation, or its retrocession to Maryland, can be only accomplished by constitutional amendment.
2021-04-28 16:54:00 Opinion Biden’s Climate Plan Is Wise and Necessary The U.S. is competing with China and other countries for leadership on both climate protection and the industries and the jobs of the future. We must win this race.
2021-04-28 16:54:00 Opinion Election Objectors Brought Disaster to GOP The Republicans who voted to decertify the last presidential election and haven’t publicly asked for forgiveness of their sins against our democracy will receive no support from me.
2021-04-28 16:24:00 Markets Treasury Yields Erase Earlier Rise Following Fed Statement Fed Chairman Powell’s comments eased concerns that central bank will tighten monetary policy more quickly than anticipated
2021-04-28 16:08:00 Politics Some Democrats Not Sold on Biden’s Proposed Capital-Gains Tax Boost Idea to raise revenue from high-income households would help pay for president’s $1.8 trillion antipoverty package
2021-04-28 16:08:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Airbus Subsidiary Pleads Guilty in Saudi Bribery Case GPT Special Project Management pleaded guilty to one count of corruption and was ordered to pay $38.9 million, plus costs, the U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office said
2021-04-28 15:56:00 Opinion The Special Comfort of Audiobooks During Covid-19 and Trying Times Under difficult circumstances, listening to the written word can provide some much needed succor.
2021-04-28 15:54:00 Art Review ‘Soutine / De Kooning: Conversations in Paint’ Review: Discordant Dialogue Though the two artists never met and had very different styles, an intriguing Barnes Foundation exhibition looks for signs of the French modernist’s influence on the Abstract Expressionist painter.
2021-04-28 15:38:00 Television What to Watch: 10 Shows and Movies to Stream This Week A new film from the Tom Clancy universe starring Michael B. Jordan, a crazy family and killer robots in ‘The Mitchells vs. the Machines,’ small-town comedy ‘Rutherford Falls’—and more
2021-04-28 15:08:00 Business Biden Administration to Seek Ban on Menthol Cigarettes Tobacco industry indicates court fight is possible over move, which would take years to implement
2021-04-28 14:33:00 World India’s Covid-19 Surge Spreads Rapidly Beyond New Delhi, Mumbai Five states including Uttar Pradesh account for about 35% of the country’s active coronavirus cases
2021-04-28 14:25:00 Opinion The IRS Is Biden’s Infrastructure Funding massive entitlements with payers to be named later.
2021-04-28 14:25:00 Life & Arts 5 Summer Skirts Almost as Good as an Italian Vacation Can’t travel to the Amalfi Coast for a sunny holiday? No problem. These breezy cotton styles will help transport you to the seaside—no matter how landlocked your summer digs may be.
2021-04-28 14:20:00 Economy A Green Germany Could Pump Up Europe’s Fiscal Push With Merkel retiring, surging Greens challenge German orthodoxy on debt and government spending
2021-04-28 13:41:00 Opinion Take Off Your Mask and Go Outside The CDC’s guidance is too restrictive. If it isn’t crowded, it’s safe to show your face.
2021-04-28 13:41:00 Opinion Joe Biden Is the Six Trillion Dollar Man The staggering cost of his radical agenda means a 2022 GOP opportunity.
2021-04-28 13:28:00 Life & Arts Smashed Cucumber and Sugar Snap Pea Salad With Jerk Vinaigrette Smashed cucumbers and sugar snap peas drink up a jerk vinaigrette full of fresh ginger, other warming spices and a bracing burst of lime
2021-04-28 13:23:00 Life & Arts A Snappy Spring Salad That Comes Together in 20 Minutes Smashed cucumbers and sugar snap peas drink up a jerk vinaigrette full of fresh ginger, other warming spices and a bracing burst of lime
2021-04-28 13:11:00 Life & Arts Top Colleges in the West by Size Caltech, Stanford and USC are the region’s leaders for their size in the WSJ/THE College Rankings
2021-04-28 12:37:00 Real Estate How to Hire a Top Interior Designer—Affordably A new online service lets you video-meet with A-list design pros for a timed rate—and makes once-inaccessible advice a reality
2021-04-28 12:34:00 Business Samsung’s Lee Family to Offload Picassos, Monets as It Settles More Than $10 Billion Tax Bill South Korea’s wealthiest family faces massive inheritance taxes following the death of Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee last year
2021-04-28 12:12:00 Markets For Boeing, Delivering Will Be Tough First-quarter results showcase struggles to shrink stockpile of undelivered planes
2021-04-28 11:26:00 World Boris Johnson Faces Probe Into Financing of Downing Street Apartment Refit U.K. prime minister faces battles over his conduct, but he stays ahead in the polls
2021-04-28 11:05:00 Tech Uber Tweaks App to Further Integrate Food Delivery With Rides Ride-hailing giant positions its business to steer past the pandemic
2021-04-28 11:02:00 Tech CES Plans Return to Las Vegas in 2022 Annual consumer tech show to resume in-person format after 2021 event went all-virtual during the pandemic
2021-04-28 10:58:00 Politics What’s in Biden’s American Families Plan? From Taxes to Child Care The $1.8 trillion proposal includes subsidized child care, free preschool and higher taxes on the wealthy
2021-04-28 10:42:00 CMO Today Ad Giants IPG, WPP Report Return to Organic Revenue Growth The agency holding companies follow rivals Omnicom and Publicis in reporting signs of recovery after the impact of the pandemic
2021-04-28 10:00:00 Markets Microsoft Can No Longer Fly Under the Radar A $2 trillion market value raises the stakes for software giant’s performance and could bring additional scrutiny
2021-04-28 09:30:00 Markets Mortgage Refinancing Initiative to Help Lower-Income Borrowers Federal housing regulator says program could help more than two million mortgage borrowers refinance at a lower interest rate
2021-04-28 09:10:00 U.S. Vaccines Appear to Be Slowing Spread of Covid-19 Infections With more than 37% of U.S. adults fully vaccinated, Anthony Fauci expects case numbers to drop significantly
2021-04-28 09:00:00 Books Books to Read: The Best Reviews of April ‘The Agitators,’ ‘The Man Who Lived Underground’ and more of the books our reviewers singled out for praise.
2021-04-28 09:00:00 Arts Auction House Phillips Names Former Christie’s Executive as New CEO Stephen Brooks plans to expand Phillips’s global reach, bolster contemporary art sales
2021-04-28 09:00:00 Politics Democrats’ Thin House Majority to Be Tested by Multitrillion-Dollar Plans On infrastructure and antipoverty plans, lawmakers air differences on tax policy, Medicare expansion, child tax benefits
2021-04-28 08:56:00 Life & Arts The U.S. Cities Where Airlines See the Most Growth Austin, Boston and Raleigh-Durham are among the mini-hubs the major carriers will be fighting over this year, to the benefit of air passengers
2021-04-28 08:49:00 Markets Credit Suisse, Bank of America, Credit Agricole Fined by EU for Bond-Trading Cartel Three banks fined a combined total of $34.4 million. Deutsche Bank avoided a penalty by informing the EU about the cartel.
2021-04-28 08:15:00 Business Boeing Reports Loss as Air Force One Work Drags Aerospace giant cites patchy recovery in airline traffic after sluggish resumption of 737 MAX and 787 Dreamliner deliveries
2021-04-28 08:05:00 Politics Gavin Newsom Recall: What Happens Next? California governor almost certain to face recall election later this year, the sixth attempt by Republican activists since he was elected
2021-04-28 08:03:00 Markets Deutsche Bank Is Drama-Free for Now Sidestepping the Archegos debacle reinforces the lender’s turnaround story. Investors may soon start asking what comes next.
2021-04-28 08:00:00 World Brazil Covid-19 Variant Tears Through South America in Warning to World Countries that recently had pandemic under control, including Uruguay and Chile, are now seeing surging hospitalizations and deaths
2021-04-28 08:00:00 CFO Journal More Companies Buy Back Shares, Pay Dividends a Year Into Pandemic U.S. businesses, many of them no longer facing cash-flow woes, are returning more capital to shareholders
2021-04-28 07:56:00 Markets Sony Eyes a Broader Entertainment Empire Electronics-and-entertainment company is betting on broader content offerings as pandemic’s boost fades
2021-04-28 07:53:00 World When the EU’s Covid-19 Vaccine Drive Stumbled, It Turned to Mr. Fixit Thierry Breton, a seasoned French executive, tracked vaccine supplies, pressured pharma companies to deliver. ‘We will win this fight.’
2021-04-28 07:50:00 Business Facebook’s Ad Business Expected to Surge, Following Google’s Act Social-media company may share plan to boost revenue as Apple rolls out changes enabling users to put limits on ad tracking
2021-04-28 07:22:00 Tech Venture Firms Bask in a Surge of Blockbuster Profits Sutter Hill’s Snowflake bet eclipses some of the biggest returns in U.S. startup history
2021-04-28 07:00:00 Pro PE Deals ATL Partners-Led Group Invests More Than $300 Million in Arrive Logistics The group became the largest investor in the freight-brokerage company, while early backer Lead Edge Capital sold a portion of its stake
2021-04-28 07:00:00 Markets Fidelity Launches Platform for Fund Managers to Profit From Short Sellers Boston firm launched securities-lending business in-house two years ago and is now extending those services to other asset managers
2021-04-28 07:00:00 Alternatives Gain Favor With Latin American Investors A rising appetite for alternative investments among pensions drives global private-equity expansion in the region
2021-04-28 07:00:00 CMO Today 7-Eleven Taps ‘Spring Breakers’ Director Harmony Korine for $70 Million Marketing Campaign Convenience chain works to keep consumers coming amid increasingly convenient e-commerce
2021-04-28 07:00:00 CMO Today OpenAP Launches Data Tool Meant to Streamline TV Ad Buying The industry group’s system creates an identifier that ultimately will let advertisers measure reach across both digital and traditional TV networks
2021-04-28 06:54:00 Tech Huawei’s Sales Drop Steepens Under Weight of U.S. Sanctions Chinese tech giant suffers second straight quarterly drop in revenue as smartphone sales drop
2021-04-28 06:30:00 Markets Stock Futures Waver Ahead of Fed Meeting The S&P 500 is hovering close to a record as investors await results from Qualcomm, Facebook, Apple and Ford Motor
2021-04-28 06:00:00 Business Spotify Adds Subscribers as Covid-19 Boosts At-Home Streaming Audio-streaming platform warns of uncertain growth as newer markets endure a surge in coronavirus cases
2021-04-28 05:42:00 Markets Deutsche Bank Avoids Archegos Meltdown, Reports Profit Surge Bank benefits from frenzied investor activity in a volatile market and companies raising funding and merging
2021-04-28 05:30:00 Markets Robinhood Has a Customer Service Problem The brokerage is taking weeks or longer to resolve routine user issues as it gears up for an IPO later this year
2021-04-28 05:30:00 Economy Fed Likely to Keep Rates Near Zero as Recovery Picks Up Officials are expected to keep policy on hold while acknowledging recent improvements in hiring and inflation data
2021-04-28 05:30:00 Tech Apple to Report Quarterly Results as Investors Look for iPhone Growth Lofty expectations for the latest iPhone sent shares soaring last year. Now investors want to know if the momentum continues.
2021-04-28 05:30:00 Politics What Time Is Biden’s Speech Tonight? How to Watch President’s Address to Congress Biden will deliver his first address to a joint session of Congress to mark the end of his first 100 days in office
2021-04-28 05:30:00 Business At-Home Covid-19 Tests Might Cost Too Much for Regular Use Rapid, paper-strip tests are arriving at pharmacies with price tags of $20 or more for two tests
2021-04-28 05:07:00 Markets Saudi Arabia to Sell More Aramco Stakes, Crown Prince Says After its 2019 IPO failed to generate much foreign demand, Aramco is in talks to sell a 1% stake to an unnamed global energy company
2021-04-28 05:00:00 Politics Biden to Propose $1.8 Trillion Plan Aimed at Families, Tax Hikes for Wealthiest Americans In speech to Congress, president will call for a universal preschool program, two years of tuition-free community college
2021-04-27 21:24:00 U.S. Eric Schneiderman Loses Law License for One Year Former New York attorney general admits to engaging in professional misconduct and abusing previous girlfriends, disciplinary opinion says
2021-04-27 20:37:00 CFO Journal Pinterest CFO Looks to Ramp Up Spending on Marketing, Product Investments The image-sharing platform expects the number of U.S. users to plateau as the pandemic abates
2021-04-27 19:48:00 Pro Bankruptcy Distress AMC Aims to Sell 43 Million Shares to Bolster Cash Reserves The world’s largest movie-theater chain kicks off new effort to raise cash after it projects another quarterly loss
2021-04-27 19:29:00 World U.S. Warship Fires Warning Shots in Encounter With Iranian Vessels Standoff in the Persian Gulf marks second in a month and comes as Biden administration pursues talks over Iranian nuclear deal
2021-04-27 19:25:00 Markets Investors Stick a Pin in Pinterest First-quarter revenue jumped, but user growth appears to be slowing
2021-04-27 19:03:00 Markets Google Springs Forward Strong margins and new buyback should click following early pandemic slump
2021-04-27 18:53:00 Opinion Newsom’s Guide to Ban Fracking California’s new plan to increase oil imports and CO2 emissions.
2021-04-27 18:53:00 Opinion Biden’s Post-Trump Honeymoon He’s riding the end of the pandemic to pass a radical agenda.
2021-04-27 18:46:00 Opinion What Happened to Census ‘Sabotage’? Contrary to fears last year, discrepancies helped blue states.
2021-04-27 18:46:00 Pro Bankruptcy NRA Says It May Have Legal Claims Against Former CFO In a bankruptcy filing in Dallas, the NRA opposed former CFO Wilson Phillips’s request for insurance to help defray the cost of defending himself in a pending action in New York
2021-04-27 18:41:00 Opinion Florida’s School Voucher Expansion The Legislature increases eligibility to tens of thousands more students.
2021-04-27 18:40:00 Opinion Justice After George Floyd Students debate the meaning of the Derek Chauvin trial.
2021-04-27 18:37:00 Politics GOP Leaders Clash on Trump at Annual Retreat Republicans hope to take back control of Congress in midterms
2021-04-27 18:34:00 Business Humana Buying Out Partners in Home-Health Business Insurer agrees to pay $5.7 billion to take full control of Kindred at Home
2021-04-27 18:26:00 Politics FTC Head Says Supreme Court Ruling Puts More Than $2 Billion for Cheated Consumers at Risk Congressional hearing suggests legislative effort to restore agency’s powers won’t be quick
2021-04-27 18:17:00 Opinion A Tax Break for the Rich to Bail Out Profligate States Regressiveness plus moral hazard: There’s nothing to like about deductibility of state and local taxes.
2021-04-27 18:16:00 Opinion Seattle Residents: Fund the Police Would news consumers ever guess that blacks trust the police more than whites do?
2021-04-27 18:16:00 Opinion Lament for the European Super League A little competition wouldn’t have been such a bad thing in the world of soccer.
2021-04-27 18:15:00 Opinion The Joe Biden Mystery Dance If there’s a strategy, it’s to inherit a boom and survive the left.
2021-04-27 18:15:00 Opinion Race Relations in America Are Better Than Ever Obsessed with theories of ‘systemic racism’ and ‘unconscious bias,’ the media ignores good news.
2021-04-27 18:14:00 Books ‘Maniac’ Review: The Mad Butcher of Bath A true-crime chronicler examines an act of mass murder from 1927 and the disturbing backstory of the man who committed it.
2021-04-27 18:11:00 CIO Journal Federal IT Experts Cite Host of Roadblocks to Tech Modernization Agencies are facing tech skill shortages, tight budgets and decades-old computer code
2021-04-27 17:42:00 Politics Biden Picks Texas Sheriff to Lead Immigration-Enforcement Agency Ed Gonzalez, a critic of Trump-era policies, ended Harris County’s partnership with ICE in 2017
2021-04-27 17:37:00 Markets MicroVision Is the Latest Stock WallStreetBets Can’t Stop Buzzing About Shares have nearly doubled in the past week as individual investors pile in
2021-04-27 17:32:00 Business Starbucks Expects Higher Profit as Customers Return Coffee giant’s global sales rebound in quarter, but undershoot expectations
2021-04-27 17:29:00 U.S. Biden Administration to Finance $8 Billion in Power-Grid Improvements Effort is framed as one part of battle against climate change
2021-04-27 17:25:00 U.S. FBI Opens Probe Into Shooting Death of Andrew Brown in North Carolina Mr. Brown, a Black man, was fatally shot by sheriff’s deputies last week while being served with arrest warrants
2021-04-27 17:08:00 Music Review ‘Zero Grasses: Ritual for the Losses’ by Jen Shyu Review: Transforming Lamentations The album was conceived to explore our disconnection from nature and the musician’s question of whether to have a child, then shifted with the death of a family member, the spread of Covid-19, and the explosion of racial-justice protests.
2021-04-27 17:07:00 Television Review ‘Things Heard & Seen’ Review: The Horror of the Unknown In a smart Netflix film based on the book ‘All Things Cease to Appear,’ Amanda Seyfried stars as a young mother who comes to suspect that her marriage and new home have a dark side.
2021-04-27 16:58:00 Politics Child Tax Credit Expansion Gets Push From Democrats Ahead of Biden Speech White House has proposed a temporary extension but some lawmakers want to make the larger payments permanent
2021-04-27 16:46:00 Politics CDC Eases Face Mask Guidelines for Fully Vaccinated People Outdoors Inoculated people don’t need face masks to protect against Covid-19 when walking, exercising, dining or attending small gatherings outside, the CDC says
2021-04-27 16:43:00 World U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan Orders Nonessential Staff to Leave Country Washington has urged Taliban not to attack U.S. troops during withdrawal
2021-04-27 16:20:00 Markets U.S. Treasury Yields Rise Ahead of Fed Statement Government-bond yields end higher for third straight session
2021-04-27 16:14:00 Television Review ‘Lucy the Human Chimp’ Review: Monkey Business An HBO Max documentary tells the story of a professor and his wife who raised a chimpanzee as their ‘daughter.’
2021-04-27 16:01:00 Life & Arts Tracksuits—Like Those Worn by Run-DMC—Are Back in Style The hip-hop trio favored comfortable, sporty Adidas sets decades ago and, in the Covid era, elevated versions are thriving. Here’s how to get the look.
2021-04-27 14:46:00 Business DraftKings Buys Rights to Podcast by Former ESPN Host Dan Le Batard Digital sports entertainment and gaming company pushes further into media realm with $50 million deal
2021-04-27 14:35:00 Logistics Report DSV Resumes Freight-Forwarding Consolidation With Agility Logistics Acquisition The Denmark-based operator expects its latest deal will make it the world’s third-largest freight forwarder
2021-04-27 14:33:00 World Brazil Rejects Russian Covid-19 Vaccine Health agency refuses to approve imports of Sputnik V shots, citing inconsistent data on quality, efficacy
2021-04-27 14:23:00 Business Chesapeake Energy CEO Doug Lawler Is Stepping Down His departure comes two months after the once-highflying shale-gas company emerged from bankruptcy
2021-04-27 14:23:00 World U.S. Aims to Shape New Phase of WHO-Led Probe Into Origin of Covid-19 Federal authorities are drafting recommendations calling for more testing of animals and humans and pushing back on idea that frozen food could have spread new coronavirus
2021-04-27 13:55:00 World India’s Covid-19 Agonies Highlight Growing Rich-Poor Gap in Vaccinations Indian vaccine export ban slows supplies to other poor countries. ‘We must turn the tide quickly,’ WHO director says.
2021-04-27 13:38:00 World Indian Covid-19 Variant Found in U.S., Across Globe as Foreign Help Arrives Impact of variant on surge of infections that has overwhelmed hospitals is still unclear
2021-04-27 13:16:00 Opinion Biden’s First 100 Days—and the Next 100 Voters like the president’s demeanor, and he can notch a win on infrastructure.
2021-04-27 13:15:00 Opinion America’s Naval Strategy Is at Sea The Pentagon hasn’t spelled out how it would win a maritime war against China.
2021-04-27 12:47:00 Business Ford Plans to Manufacture Its Own Batteries for Electric Vehicles Auto maker intends to open $185 million battery-development center in southeast Michigan next year
2021-04-27 12:45:00 Economy Confidence in U.S. Economy Approaches Pre-Pandemic Level Consumers’ outlook on the economy has increased for four straight months as vaccination totals rise, businesses more fully reopen
2021-04-27 12:45:00 Markets The Jet-Engine Business Is a Risky Gamble on a Faster Travel Recovery Despite an encouraging rebound in flight bookings, jet-engine makers are rightly cautious about upgrading their guidance
2021-04-27 12:39:00 Logistics Report China’s Imports of Commodities Drive a Boom in Dry-Bulk Shipping The cost of moving goods like iron, coal and corn jumped to a 10-year high this week in a sharp rebound from last year’s industrial downturn
2021-04-27 12:04:00 Politics Biden to Seek $80 Billion to Bolster IRS, Tax Enforcement Administration estimates plan would generate $700 billion in net taxes that otherwise would go uncollected
2021-04-27 11:22:00 Life & Arts Why the NFL Draft Is Unstoppable, Even Now It’s a circus of hot air. It’s also a rare television event that keeps getting bigger.
2021-04-27 11:13:00 U.S. The Pandemic Changed Where Americans Live Big cities lost residents, as younger households left for the suburbs and older people accelerated retirement moves, while fewer newcomers came to take their places
2021-04-27 10:55:00 A Closer Look Selections from ‘The Pocket Chaotic’ by Ziggy Hanaor, illustrated by Daniel Gray-Barnett
2021-04-27 10:35:00 Opinion Scrutinizing the ‘Biden Boom’ and Its Causes Alan Blinder gives President Biden too much credit.
2021-04-27 10:34:00 Opinion Offshore Wind Agenda Still Has Some Bight The Biden administration plows ahead with development in an area between New York and New Jersey.
2021-04-27 10:33:00 Opinion Planned Parenthood and Sanger’s Eugenics Legacy There is a world of difference between having the government decide who can be a parent and those parents choosing for themselves.
2021-04-27 10:31:00 Markets UBS Is a Tough Act for Credit Suisse to Follow Despite similar business models, the two Swiss wealth managers have key differences that investors shouldn’t gloss over
2021-04-27 09:59:00 A Closer Look Selections from ‘Juan Hormiga’ by Gustavo Roldán
2021-04-27 09:00:00 Politics South and West to Gain Power in House of Representatives Number of seats will change in 13 states, and Republicans may have an edge in the 2022 midterm elections, according to new numbers from the decennial census
2021-04-27 09:00:00 Economy U.S. Home Prices Continued to Climb in February Home-price growth accelerated to new 15-year high, according to Case-Shiller index
2021-04-27 09:00:00 Politics Arizona Republicans Push Forward With Audit of 2020 Ballots GOP-controlled state Senate hired a company to audit the roughly 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County, over the objections of Democrats
2021-04-27 08:00:00 Logistics Report FedEx, Adobe Agree to Integrate E-Commerce Sales, Service Platforms The delivery company says the alignment of its ShopRunner service with Adobe’s sales operation is aimed at building an ‘open e-commerce ecosystem’
2021-04-27 08:00:00 U.S. Businessman to Admit Smuggling Marine Tech to China Qin Shuren is pleading guilty to illegally exporting equipment that officials say could help China as it builds an undersea drone armada
2021-04-27 08:00:00 Real Estate Mini-American Invasion of British Hotel Sector Is Coming This Summer A number of U.S. hotel operators are betting that cultural tourists from abroad and stir-crazy locals eager to travel again will fill rooms in Britain
2021-04-27 08:00:00 Real Estate Hong Kong’s Towering Office Rents Are Coming Back Down to Earth Economic impacts of the pandemic, social unrest and U.S.-China tensions put downward pressure on prices. ‘It’s survival of the fittest.’
2021-04-27 07:47:00 Business GE Posts Lower Sales, Loss on Restructuring Moves Aviation unit revenue drops 28%, but GE says industrial cash burn improves
2021-04-27 07:43:00 Life & Arts The Class of 2020 Feels Cheated on Graduation As schools host in-person 2021 graduations, some members of the class of 2020—and their parents—still long for their own missed ceremonies; ‘Do you guys still care about us?’
2021-04-27 06:52:00 Business UPS Posts Higher Quarterly Revenue, Boosted by Small Businesses Package-delivery company’s revenue jumps 27% to $22.91 billion
2021-04-27 06:51:00 Markets Stock Futures Edge Up Ahead of Big Tech Earnings The S&P 500 and Nasdaq are on track to notch records as investors await earnings from Microsoft and Alphabet
2021-04-27 06:15:00 Markets Archegos Fiasco Stalks Nomura’s Wall Street Dream Japanese bank’s management might be better off focusing closer to home
2021-04-27 06:00:00 Tech DoorDash Allows Restaurants to Choose Commissions in Post-Pandemic Future New tiered system is effort to appease restaurants over fees they were forced to accept during health crisis
2021-04-27 06:00:00 Politics Biden to Sign Order Requiring $15 Minimum Wage for Federal Contractors Executive order would affect hundreds of thousands of people working on federal contracts
2021-04-27 06:00:00 Markets Tesla Makes More Money Trading Bitcoin Than Selling Cars Bitcoin trading and regulatory credits, not auto sales, helped power Tesla to a record profit
2021-04-27 05:44:00 Derby’s Take: Surging Prices for Used Cars May Cast Long Shadow on Inflation
2021-04-27 05:43:00 Markets Saying Au Revoir to the Most Successful Policy in Federal Reserve History The Fed’s three-month currency swaps to other central banks cost nothing, prevented an emerging crisis and may have left markets healthier in the aftermath
2021-04-27 05:41:00 Business BP to Buy Back Shares as Oil Price Recovery Boosts Profit Rebounding oil prices and strong trading results help BP pay down debt faster than expected
2021-04-27 05:39:00 Tech Apple’s Privacy Changes Are Poised to Boost Its Ad Products Under the iPhone maker’s new rules, advertisers will get more ad-performance data for ads bought through Apple than through third parties
2021-04-27 05:39:00 Business Google Poised to Smash Sales Records, Riding Online Spending Surge Covid-19 pandemic provided a jolt to Alphabet’s advertising business
2021-04-27 05:39:00 Markets European Soccer, Brought to You by JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America The Super League fizzled, but JPMorgan’s role as the money behind it showcased the outsize role American banks play in European soccer
2021-04-27 05:39:00 Real Estate Shoppers Return to Malls, With an Urge to Spend Covid-19 vaccines, higher foot traffic and a jump in sales are offering hope to a beleaguered industry
2021-04-27 05:39:00 Real Estate Emerging Housing Markets Index – WSJ/Realtor.com How metro areas across America are ranked
2021-04-27 05:30:00 Tech Microsoft Earnings Expected to Show Another Pandemic-Fueled Quarter of Gaming, Cloud Growth Investor enthusiasm has brought software giant near a $2 trillion valuation
2021-04-27 05:11:00 U.S. Restaurants Can Tap $29 Billion Covid-19 Aid Program Beginning May 3 The Small Business Administration’s grant program for the food-service industry was created by Congress as part of a pandemic-aid package
2021-04-27 05:08:00 World After Default, Zambia’s Outsized Bet on Copper Could Play Into China’s Hands Zambia takes on $1.5 billion debt to acquire loss-making mine, raising fears it could ultimately hand strategic asset to top creditor, China
2021-04-27 05:00:00 Markets Chinese Bad-Debt Manager Huarong Repays a $453 Million Bond Investor worries linger after repayment of first international bond to come due since company delayed release of financial results
2021-04-27 04:09:00 Markets Archegos Losses Top $10 Billion as UBS, Nomura Add to Damage Bill Hwang’s family office wreaked havoc across Wall Street when it couldn’t meet margin calls in March
2021-04-27 02:19:00 Markets HSBC’s Profit Jumps as Global Economy Recovers London-based lender more than doubles first-quarter net profit compared with last year
2021-04-26 22:10:00 Pro Bankruptcy Secure Home Lenders Move to Take Over Company Home security company proposes a bankruptcy reorganization that would be tough on junior creditors
2021-04-26 19:32:00 Risk & Compliance Journal U.K. Blacklists Officials, Others for Alleged Corruption Under New Sanctions Regime The new anticorruption sanctions program follows the establishment of Britain’s human-rights sanctions regime
2021-04-26 19:24:00 Politics Senate Earmarks Are Back: Democrats Make It Official Practice of funding home-state projects was shunned for a decade
2021-04-26 18:42:00 Opinion How to Save the Post Office, Maybe Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has some good ideas, but Congress is the biggest obstacle to more significant reform.
2021-04-26 18:40:00 Opinion Portland Is Mugged by Reality Mayor Ted Wheeler has an epiphany about riots and destruction.
2021-04-26 18:37:00 Opinion New Jersey’s Gas Pipeline Veto The Supreme Court hears Trenton’s claim to regulatory supremacy.
2021-04-26 18:35:00 Opinion ‘Woke’ Corporations Use the Chinese Model They make a profit and suppress dissent at the same time.
2021-04-26 18:31:00 Opinion Goodbye Section 230, Hello Liberty My legislation would protect free expression by treating Big Tech companies as common carriers.
2021-04-26 18:30:00 Books ‘Meditations’ Review: A Stoic Emperor’s Bestseller Marcus Aurelius was confident that goodness can be attained—that we can choose virtue, and avoid vice, with every decision we make.
2021-04-26 18:29:00 Opinion A Liberalish New World Order Where do rights fit into international solutions with nations like China or Russia?
2021-04-26 18:27:00 Opinion Give Bill Maher an Oscar Unlike Hollywood’s woke, at least its Communists could make good movies.
2021-04-26 18:26:00 Opinion A Slow FDA Is Denying ALS Patients Their Only Hope An archaic regulatory process that depends on placebo trials is blocking access to new drugs.
2021-04-26 17:54:00 Opinion Gun Rights Return to the Supreme Court The Justices might finally stop lower-court judges from hollowing out the landmark Heller ruling.
2021-04-26 17:35:00 U.S. Chicago Sues Indiana Gun Shop Over Illegal Guns The city says Westforth Sports store is responsible for the flow of hundreds and possibly thousands of illegal guns on city streets
2021-04-26 17:25:00 Music Review ‘Second Line’ by Dawn Richard Review: Anything but Traditional The New Orleans-born singer’s album interprets the city’s storied parades with futuristic R&B and electronic beats.
2021-04-26 17:22:00 Music Review ‘Artur Rodzinski—New York Philharmonic: The Complete Columbia Album Collection’ Review: Mercurial Maestro A 16-CD boxed set celebrates a 20th-century Polish conductor who reinvigorated the music of composers from Brahms to Gershwin and was, for a time, the premier orchestra builder in the U.S.
2021-04-26 17:19:00 Politics U.S. Launches Investigation Into Louisville Police Practices Attorney general opens probe in Kentucky city where Breonna Taylor was killed last year, after starting one in Minneapolis last week
2021-04-26 17:08:00 Tech Lyft Agrees to Sell Autonomous-Driving Unit to Toyota for $550 Million Ride-hailing company says sale will help it reach measure of profitability sooner than expected
2021-04-26 16:58:00 Politics Census Shows South and Mountain West Gain Political Power From Population Growth Texas gets the most new House seats after 2020 census reshuffling; California loses a seat for the first time
2021-04-26 16:43:00 Business Simon & Schuster Employees Submit Petition Demanding No Deals With Trump Administration Authors Petition collected 216 internal signatures and more than 3,500 outside supporters, organizers say
2021-04-26 16:25:00 U.S. Supreme Court Will Hear Case Over Testimony on Guantanamo Detainee Government appeals ruling mandating testimony from contractors about Abu Zubaydah’s treatment in a foreign CIA detention center
2021-04-26 16:12:00 U.S. Prescription-Drug Price Cuts Set to Be Left Out of White House Proposal Biden will detail roughly $1.8 trillion antipoverty plan during a speech to Congress later this week
2021-04-26 15:57:00 Middle East Iranian Ships Swarmed U.S. Coast Guard Vessels in Persian Gulf, Navy Says Revolutionary Guard Corps fast boats, twin-hulled vessel came within 70 yards in ‘unsafe and unprofessional’ maneuvers
2021-04-26 15:16:00 Arts At the Oscars, Frances McDormand Raises Hollywood’s Existential Question The ‘Nomadland’ actress was the only star to highlight the plight of movie theaters at an award ceremony meant to celebrate art for the big screen
2021-04-26 15:13:00 Business Oscars Ratings Fall 58% to Event’s Lowest TV Viewership on Record Broadcast of awards ceremony Sunday was watched by 9.85 million viewers
2021-04-26 14:40:00 Politics U.S. to Share AstraZeneca Covid-19 Vaccine Doses With World Biden administration faces pressure to offer the shots to developing countries
2021-04-26 14:23:00 Risk & Compliance Journal U.K. Prosecutors’ Case Against Ex-Serco Execs Collapses at Trial Acquittal comes after the U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office failed to disclose evidence to the defense
2021-04-26 14:21:00 Markets Investors Stay Hungry for Inflation-Protected Bonds Demand for inflation-protected bonds remains high despite a recent decline in Treasury yields
2021-04-26 14:08:00 Opinion Hollywood: No Land for Nomads Potential Covid patients and homeless Angelenos make way for Oscar celebrants.
2021-04-26 13:17:00 Tech iOS 14.5: A Guide to Apple’s New App-Tracking Controls The latest update to the iPhone’s operating system has some useful upgrades and one big privacy feature that requires some consideration
2021-04-26 12:46:00 Opinion The Fed in the Sand as Inflation Threatens We aren’t going back to the 1970s, but the central bank isn’t being realistic about the risk of higher prices.
2021-04-26 12:43:00 Opinion America Voted for a Rest, Not a Revolution Elected as Not Trump, Biden aspires to be the second coming of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
2021-04-26 12:41:00 World Europe Aims to Let American Travelers In While Keeping Covid-19 at Bay Some tourism-dependent Mediterranean countries already allow overseas guests, while other EU nations remain wary
2021-04-26 12:05:00 Arts Oscar 2021 Winners: Full List, From ‘Nomadland’ to Anthony Hopkins and Frances McDormand Other winners were Chloé Zhao, Youn Yuh-jung in ‘Minari,’ and Daniel Kaluuya in ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’
2021-04-26 11:48:00 Markets Supermarkets Say Goodbye to Pantry Loading, Hello to Inflation Grocers will face tougher competition from restaurants this year, but inflation could end up being helpful
2021-04-26 11:10:00 Business Israeli, U.A.E. Energy Firms Set Up Biggest Deal Since Diplomatic Agreement Israel’s Delek plans to sell stake in Tamar gas field to U.A.E.’s Mubadala Petroleum for $1.1 billion
2021-04-26 11:09:00 Tech Google Bundles Products to Land Univision Cloud Deal Spanish-language broadcaster says Google won by including YouTube, search services in bid
2021-04-26 10:58:00 Tate & Lyle Shares Surge on Sweetener Unit Deal Talks Food and ingredients maker in talks to sell division for $1.66 billion
2021-04-26 10:28:00 Life & Arts Tokyo Olympics Say They Can Be Held Safely. Experts Say They Need Vaccines. Games organizers point to other sports managing distanced, bubbled events during the pandemic, but none of them approaches the scale of the Olympics
2021-04-26 10:13:00 U.S. American Vets See Echoes of Vietnam in Afghanistan Withdrawal Plan U.S. troops who fought in conflicts decades apart see their country leaving behind wars unfinished and allies to face the consequences
2021-04-26 10:09:00 Opinion Correcting Rahm Emanuel on Six Presidents He makes the mistake of ascribing everything that goes on economically to politics and policies.
2021-04-26 10:08:00 Opinion IRS Staff and Audits: the More, the Merrier? More work without more funds leaves the IRS no option but to cut back on answering the telephone and auditing the wealthy.
2021-04-26 10:07:00 Opinion Danger: Peloton Use Calls for Some Personal Responsibility The potential hazards of a treadmill are what the law calls ‘open and obvious.’
2021-04-26 09:57:00 U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Major Gun Case Justices to review New York law limiting carrying concealed weapons in public
2021-04-26 09:56:00 Tech Apple to Build New Campus in North Carolina Move would create at least 3,000 jobs in machine learning, AI, software engineering, other fields in Raleigh-Durham area, company says
2021-04-26 09:30:00 Life & Arts Can My Boss Force Me Not to Wear a Face Mask at Work? As vaccinations spread and some states lift mask mandates, employees and employers want to know their rights regarding masks in the workplace.
2021-04-26 09:26:00 World EU Is Suing AstraZeneca Over Covid-19 Vaccine Shortfall Legal action follows weeks of wrangling between the bloc and AstraZeneca over supplies
2021-04-26 09:08:00 Economy U.S. Durable-Goods Orders Rebound Following Dip New orders rose 0.5% in March as factories struggled to get parts
2021-04-26 09:06:00 Life & Arts Creation of First Human-Monkey Embryos Sparks Concern Called chimeras, these lab-grown creations have been hailed as a major scientific breakthrough. But some ethics experts see reason for worry
2021-04-26 08:48:00 Politics For Biden’s Next 100 Days, the World Is Preparing Tests President seeks to focus on his pressing domestic agenda, but rivals from China to Russia are probing his resolve on a range of issues
2021-04-26 08:35:00 World China Censors ‘Nomadland’ Director Chloe Zhao’s Oscar Win Ms. Zhao is first Chinese woman to win best director, yet search engines erased the news
2021-04-26 08:29:00 Business China Starts Probe Into Meituan as Internet-Industry Crackdown Widens Investigation of delivery giant for suspected monopolistic practices
2021-04-26 08:27:00 Markets Credit Suisse Investors Target Board Over Archegos, Greensill Failures Norway’s sovereign fund says it will vote against bank’s director appointments after back-to-back blows
2021-04-26 08:08:00 Markets Summer Skies Will Be Close to Normal—But What About Air Fares? Airlines say summer leisure fares are getting close to 2019 levels, signaling the end of pandemic bargains. Without corporate travel, though, carriers will still make a lot less money per passenger.
2021-04-26 08:00:00 CFO Journal Companies Say They Are Better Prepared to Host Virtual Annual Meetings This Year Berkshire Hathaway, Pfizer are adding more interactive tools, including live questions and video streams to AGMs
2021-04-26 07:30:00 Markets Companies Cheered by Post-Covid-19 Demand Have a Supply Problem Demand alone can’t lead to full recovery across industries such as ride-hailing, airlines, rental cars and home sharing. Now, investors need to worry about supply.
2021-04-26 07:03:00 World India Accused of Censorship for Blocking Social Media Criticism Amid Covid Surge New Delhi orders Twitter and Facebook to remove content it says is misinformation; digital watchdog says many of the posts challenged government’s handling of the crisis
2021-04-26 07:00:00 CIO Journal CIOs Accelerate Pre-Pandemic Cloud Push Cloud spending expected to hit $332 billion by the end of the year
2021-04-26 07:00:00 Business Sanofi to Help Make Moderna Covid-19 Vaccine for U.S. The French drug maker intends to fill vials and finish packaging of as many as 200 million doses
2021-04-26 07:00:00 Markets How Bytedance Could Take a Bite Out of Tencent The Tiktok owner has already laid former rivals like Baidu and Weibo low; Tencent could be next
2021-04-26 07:00:00 Business Tesla Is Expected to Post Record Earnings at Start of Turbulent Year Electric-vehicle pioneer faces safety investigations and mounting competition as demand for plug-in cars rises
2021-04-26 06:45:00 Media & Marketing NBC’s News Chief Pushes Streaming and Bets on Post-Trump Story Lines Cesar Conde recruits big names for streaming services, centralizes oversight of networks
2021-04-26 05:35:00 Markets Stock Futures Wobble Ahead of Economic Data, Earnings S&P 500 is poised for a tepid decline as investors look to economic data, corporate earnings and global Covid-19 uptick to see if this year’s stocks rally has more steam
2021-04-26 05:30:00 Politics The Ease of Tracking Mobile Phones of U.S. Soldiers in Hot Spots Apps show troop movements buried in data available for purchase: ‘a major risk to national security’
2021-04-26 05:30:00 Markets What Wall Street Is Telling Us About the U.S. Economic Outlook Investors are betting that government stimulus and Covid-19 vaccines can return the economy to how it stood just before the pandemic
2021-04-26 05:30:00 Pro Cyber News SolarWinds, Microsoft Hacks Prompt Focus on Zero-Trust Security Officials push for a more proactive approach to cybersecurity following the success of recent attacks
2021-04-26 05:21:00 Markets Uranium Miners Seeking a Foothold Take Unorthodox Approach: Buying Uranium Companies that are planning to mine uranium, known as junior miners, are purchasing the nuclear fuel to help clinch sales for new mines
2021-04-25 23:49:00 Arts Oscars 2021: ‘Nomadland’ Wins Best Picture as Hollywood Looks to Turn a Corner Hollywood stages a glitzy comeback; the awards ceremony was held at a working transit hub
2021-04-25 22:11:00 Markets How to Add Gas to U.S.-China Climate Cooperation China has been making steady if slow progress on reducing coal as a percentage of its energy mix
2021-04-25 21:02:00 Life & Arts Oscars 2021 Red Carpet: Fashion Returns with Fun and Flair Stars like Emerald Fennell, Alan Kim, Regina King, and Leslie Odom Jr. arrived at the scaled-back, live red-carpet event wearing both polished and surprising looks
2021-04-25 19:00:00 U.S. Cuomo’s Pandemic Powers Remain Unchecked, Republicans Say The governor changed the curfew for bars and restaurants recently despite amended law
2021-04-25 17:03:00 Opinion The Dumbest Tax Increase Biden’s capital-gains rate of 43.4% would reduce federal revenue.
2021-04-25 17:03:00 Opinion A Revealing Vote on Anti-Asian Bias Democrats vote to condone discrimination in higher education.
2021-04-25 17:02:00 Opinion China’s Economic Blackmail Backfires After Beijing’s trade bullying, Australia tears up two investment deals.
2021-04-25 16:52:00 Opinion ‘Donor Disclosure’ Chills Free Speech California seeks to force advocacy groups to reveal who gives the money. The justices should say no.
2021-04-25 16:51:00 Opinion Beaten by Cops, I Became One I’m running for mayor so New York can have both public safety and police accountability.
2021-04-25 16:50:00 Opinion Time to End Outdoor Mask Edicts The CDC is moving too slowly in updating its advice to comport with the scientific evidence.
2021-04-25 16:49:00 Opinion U.S. Policies Ensure More Migrants Give aid to the usual suspects in Latin America, and you’ll get the same sad result.
2021-04-25 16:47:00 Books ‘Unsettled’ Review: The ‘Consensus’ On Climate A top Obama scientist looks at the evidence on warming and CO2 emissions and rebuts much of the dominant political narrative.
2021-04-25 16:46:00 Opinion Something Fishy About America’s ‘Mongers’ Here, the suffix tends to be pejorative and not about selling.
2021-04-25 16:32:00 Politics Vaccine Hesitancy Poses Risk to Herd Immunity, U.S. Health Officials Say Fauci, Collins seek to reassure Americans on the safety of the Johnson & Johnson shot
2021-04-25 16:19:00 World India Will Get Covid-19 Test Kits, Protective Gear From U.S. as Cases Surge Fauci says Biden administration will consider sending doses from its AstraZeneca vaccine stockpile
2021-04-25 15:50:00 Markets Bitcoin Mania Helps Fund’s Returns, But Crypto Push Leads to Downgrade Morningstar said the Emerald Advisers fund was taking on too much cryptocurrency risk
2021-04-25 15:00:00 Economy Economy Week Ahead: Factories, GDP, Central Banks Data are likely to show strong growth in the U.S. but uneven recoveries elsewhere around the globe
2021-04-25 14:52:00 Politics Centrist Senators Signal Progress on Infrastructure Talks But Democrat Joe Manchin and Republican Shelley Moore Capito both say President Biden’s $2.3 trillion proposal is too big
2021-04-25 14:16:00 Business Restaurants Serve Up Signing Bonuses, Higher Pay to Win Back Workers With job openings above pre-pandemic levels, eateries from McDonald’s to Wolfgang Puck’s Spago are battling for new hires
2021-04-25 14:06:00 Opinion No Thanks for the Feedback Circular logic works its mischief, from phony election claims to ‘systemic racism.’
2021-04-25 14:06:00 Opinion Biden Taxes for Punishment’s Sake He wants to raise the rate on capital gains so high that it would leave everyone worse off.
2021-04-25 14:04:00 Opinion Mismanaging Risk and the Vaccine Re-Review A global pandemic emergency is the worst possible time to appoint a department of second-guessing.
2021-04-25 14:04:00 Opinion What Chauvin’s Guilty Verdict Says About Us A sobering lesson to liberals and Europhiles? Or is that an overreach?
2021-04-25 14:03:00 Opinion Sonnenfeld Responds to His Critics, Defends Woke CEOs Here’s why 90 major executives joined a spontaneous forum I convened on Georgia’s voting law.
2021-04-25 11:00:00 Politics The Supreme Court on the Docket Democrats are pushing proposals to overhaul the high court, Republicans oppose them, and no one believes change would come easily
2021-04-25 11:00:00 U.S. Manhattan Business Districts to Get More Police in Reopening Push New NYPD division will work with firms as mayor tries to encourage return of office workers and help tourism rebound from pandemic
2021-04-25 10:00:00 Economy The Fed’s Next Test Is Breaking the Ice Over Policy Shift Before the central bank begins to scale back support for the economy, it must first decide how to communicate the idea to markets
2021-04-25 09:22:00 World Fire in Iraq Hospital Treating Covid-19 Patients Kills 82 People Prime minister orders investigation after oxygen canisters exploded in a ward full of patients on ventilators
2021-04-25 09:20:00 Business GameStop’s CEO Is Getting Millions on His Way Out. He’s Not the Only One. Rally in videogame retailer’s share price provides unusual boost in value of stock awards for departing executives
2021-04-25 07:00:00 Business How Qatar Airways, With Its Covid-19 Playbook, Dethroned Emirates as Biggest Long-Haul Airline When pandemic hobbled global travel, the Gulf carrier added destinations, hired extra staff and kept flying quiet routes to win market share
2021-04-25 06:00:00 Life & Arts UEFA Survived the Super League. But Soccer’s Storm Isn’t Over. Long-term financial challenges mean that European soccer and its governing body are still scrambling for new sources of revenue
2021-04-25 05:42:00 World A Covid-19 Vaccine’s 1,500-Mile Journey Through India As it fights the world’s fastest-growing surge of infections, India is also carrying out one of the most logistically complex vaccination campaigns
2021-04-25 05:40:00 World The West Looks Past Covid-19 and Sees Economic Resurgence While the pandemic still presents risks, consumers, flush with savings, are expected to drive growth
2021-04-25 05:30:00 Markets SPAC Insiders Can Make Millions Even When the Company They Take Public Struggles Many individual investors take losses on SPACs, while insiders benefit from discount stakes
2021-04-25 05:30:00 Markets Wild Market Ride Lifts Everything From Lumber to Stocks to Bitcoin Veteran investors are unnerved by bubble-like conditions
2021-04-24 23:59:00 Politics Louisiana Runoff Gives Slim Democratic House Majority a One-Seat Boost Troy Carter defeats a fellow Democratic state senator in a race to succeed a Biden administration appointee
2021-04-24 18:44:00 Tech Elon Musk to Add ‘Saturday Night Live’ Host to His Résumé The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX is scheduled to headline the long-running NBC late-night comedy show on May 8
2021-04-24 16:38:00 Business Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 Shot to Be Given Again at Vaccination Sites Health officials welcome the vaccine’s return after federal authorities lifted a pause put in place on blood-clotting concerns
2021-04-24 12:33:00 World Biden Recognizes Massacres of Armenians as Genocide Historic statement will likely exacerbate tensions with Turkey, whose relationship with the U.S. has deteriorated in recent years
2021-04-24 12:16:00 Markets How to Divorce Your First Card Many people still use the first credit card they ever received, but that may be costing them in high fees or lack of rewards
2021-04-24 12:14:00 World Armenian Genocide: What You Need to Know About the 1915 Atrocities Mass killings claimed more than a million lives as Ottoman forces expelled or killed ethnic Armenians
2021-04-24 12:01:00 Life & Arts Why People Care So Much About ‘In Memoriam’ at the Oscars The annual acknowledgment of the passing of our movie idols reminds us of our own mortality. And after a year of pandemic, it offers a rare shared catharsis.
2021-04-24 12:01:00 Tech Fortnite’s Mastermind Goes to Battle With Apple Tim Sweeney is responsible for one of the world’s most successful videogames. Does he have what it takes to defeat the world’s biggest company?
2021-04-24 12:00:00 Life & Arts Want a Chic Sweatpants Alternative? Try Retro Knit Sets Ribbed knit combos, like the one Mary Tyler Moore wore in 1969, are proving a popular spring answer to the comfort vs. style conundrum
2021-04-24 12:00:00 Personal Board of Directors Where This Hollywood Union Leader Found His Own Star-Studded Alliance David White represents roughly 160,000 actors, stunt performers, singers and dancers. He taps a select group inside and outside the entertainment world for advice about his life and career.
2021-04-24 12:00:00 Tech How a Wave of Electric Trucks Could Create Millions of ‘Accidental Environmentalists’ Auto makers’ powerful new all-electric trucks and SUVs are attracting U.S. customers who wouldn’t otherwise shop for green machines; ‘Tesla to me is a yuppie vehicle’
2021-04-24 10:19:00 World Gaza Militants Fire Rockets at Israel Amid Jerusalem Clashes Israel strikes Hamas military targets in response to cross-border barrage that broke months of calm
2021-04-24 10:00:00 Business Tesla, Apple and Amazon Headline a Heavy Earnings Week More than a third of the S&P 500 will report quarterly results; earnings are on track to rise nearly 34% from the year-ago period
2021-04-24 09:00:00 Markets Skyworks Pares Its Reliance on Apple Chip company is paying $2.75 billion to acquire Silicon Labs’ infrastructure and automotive business
2021-04-24 09:00:00 Markets History Offers Only Rough Guide to the Coming Economic Boom The composition of today’s economy is very different from past ones following recessions
2021-04-24 09:00:00 Tech Pill-Dispensing Tech Makes the Medicine Go Down...With Human Help, That Is Smart pill dispensers take on the job of reminding you to take your medicine, but for patients with memory loss, tech still needs a helping hand
2021-04-24 08:51:00 World Indonesia Finds Debris From Missing Submarine, Says It Sank Bodies of the 53 people on board haven’t been found, but hopes of rescue have faded
2021-04-24 08:00:00 World Hundreds Detained by Myanmar Military Simply Disappear—‘Where Is My Mom?’ Since the coup, politicians, protesters and others in their orbit have been held in undisclosed locations, with families unsure if their loved ones are even alive
2021-04-24 07:00:00 Art Review Abroad at Home: Exploring Berlin’s Best Armchair travelers can experience the city’s vibrant cultural sites online in a truly rewarding way, despite closures that make in-person visits a challenge or impossibility.
2021-04-24 07:00:00 World Covid-19 Case Cluster Linked to One Flight Stirs Debate Among Health Experts A third of the passengers on plane from New Delhi to Hong Kong tested positive, highlighting the risks of pandemic travel
2021-04-24 07:00:00 Arts A Guide to the 2021 Oscars Should you watch the show? What’s up with the red carpet? What nominees should win? We offer answers to some of your biggest questions
2021-04-24 05:30:00 Business Match’s Winning Formula for Online Dating in Japan Gives Women Control, Makes Men Pay The company’s Pairs app has become the most popular dating app in Japan
2021-04-24 05:30:00 U.S. Amid Expanded Covid-19 Vaccine Eligibility, Signs Emerge of Slowing Demand Some states that had initial success with vaccination rates have plateaued, signaling potential challenges with Americans who may be hesitant to get the shot
2021-04-24 05:30:00 Markets Credit Suisse’s $5.5 Billion Archegos Hit Enters Big League of Bank Losses ‘The fallout at Credit Suisse is going to continue for some time,’ says Nick Leeson, whose trades led to the 1995 downfall of Barings Bank
2021-04-23 22:10:00 Corrections Corrections & Amplifications
2021-04-23 19:53:00 Life & Arts Is It Safe to Travel Again? Your Coronavirus Questions Answered A Q&A about the latest travel advisories and restrictions at home and abroad, Covid-19 tests and vaccinations, how to stay healthy on the road and what you need to know about flying
2021-04-23 19:41:00 Markets Tesla, Procter & Gamble, Apple: Stocks That Defined the Week Here are major companies whose stocks moved on the week’s news
2021-04-23 18:43:00 Opinion Donor Disclosure Arrives at the Supreme Court The Justices hear a major case on privacy and the right of association.
2021-04-23 18:41:00 Opinion The Fed’s Real Diversity Problem The central bank’s ‘groupthink’ isn’t about race and gender.
2021-04-23 18:40:00 Opinion Sen. Coons vs. the Covid Vaccine Thieves A Democrat rebuts the claims of those who want to steal U.S. intellectual property.
2021-04-23 18:37:00 Opinion A 9-0 Defeat for the FTC The Supreme Court crushes the agency for abusing the law.
2021-04-23 18:15:00 CFO Journal Lithia Motors Accelerates Dealer Acquisitions Amid Boom in Car Sales The Medford, Ore.-based chain is buying regional dealerships to add inventory for its new online sales platform
2021-04-23 17:58:00 Markets TD Ameritrade Wins Legal Battle Over Handling of Investors’ Orders Some investors opposed brokerage’s practice of routing stock orders to high-speed trading firms
2021-04-23 17:42:00 U.S. Ghislaine Maxwell Pleads Not Guilty to Sex Trafficking Confidante of Jeffrey Epstein makes her first appearance in Manhattan federal court ahead of July trial date
2021-04-23 17:39:00 Opinion Maxine Waters’s Long History of Reckless Rhetoric The California congresswoman has never been a peacemaker. She’s always been on the side of rioting.
2021-04-23 17:38:00 Opinion How to Have More Police Shootings Conformity today means you can’t be both against police misconduct and against resisting arrest.
2021-04-23 17:37:00 Opinion Illinois Democrats Ignore Obama on Gerrymandering He called for nonpartisan mapmaking. They are rushing to draw theirs without Republican input.
2021-04-23 17:35:00 World In Mexico, Worries Mount Over Political Interference in the Judiciary Term of Mexico’s Supreme Court chief justice is extended under new law; critics call it a political move by government of President López Obrador
2021-04-23 17:07:00 Opinion Covid Unemployment Relief Makes Help Impossible to Find Congress’s enhanced benefits make it more remunerative not to work. Employers are struggling.
2021-04-23 17:02:00 Politics Bipartisan Group Backs Gas-Tax Increase as Option to Fund Infrastructure Biden plan and rival GOP proposal have favored other revenue ideas
2021-04-23 16:53:00 Pro Bankruptcy Boy Scouts Sexual Abuse Claims Threaten Financial Havoc for Insurance Companies Century could be pushed into insolvency, and Chubb could be dragged into the bankruptcy fight
2021-04-23 16:37:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Citgo Looks to Bolster Corporate Governance With New Compliance Chief The petroleum refiner has hired Steven Scarpino to lead its compliance program, which previously was overseen by its top legal executive
2021-04-23 16:15:00 U.S. Covid-19 Mask Mandates Are Again at Center of Political Battles Lawmakers in some states are passing new bills to limit governors’ powers to create emergency public-health measures
2021-04-23 16:02:00 Politics Biden Focuses on Capital-Gains Taxes as He Seeks Money for Social Programs Proposal to raise top tax rate revives long-running debate over taxation of labor versus investment income
2021-04-23 15:28:00 Politics Some Democrats Push for Permanent Expansion of Unemployment Benefits Lawmakers want Biden to include payments in antipoverty package set to be rolled out next week
2021-04-23 15:15:00 Arts Oscars 2021: When and How to Watch, Nominations Plus Everything You Need to Know The 93rd Academy Awards ceremony will air this Sunday evening, April 25. Here’s where to watch.
2021-04-23 15:10:00 Real Estate Outdoor Lighting Ideas to Make Your Yard Look Like a Luxury Resort What’s the best way to make your outdoor space elegantly enjoyable after dark? With a lighting scheme as layered as your living room’s, say the pros. Here’s how.
2021-04-23 14:46:00 Opinion Republicans Need to Get Immigration Straight There are far more immigrants than woke corporate executives who hire them as cheap labor.
2021-04-23 14:44:00 Opinion Who Tells the Truth About Climate Change? Trying to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions is futile.
2021-04-23 14:40:00 World U.S. Beefing Up Defenses to Aid Afghan Withdrawal Deployment of B-52 bombers and an aircraft carrier is a signal to the Taliban that the U.S. intends to ensure a peaceful withdrawal of American forces
2021-04-23 14:23:00 U.S. Covid-19 Vaccine Supply Set to Outpace Demand State health officials are pivoting from managing a rush in demand to promoting the vaccine so the U.S. can reach herd immunity
2021-04-23 14:05:00 Life & Arts The Price of Glittering Glass In 18th-century Britain, the aristocratic taste for decorative glass was paid for in part by trade in slaves and opium.
2021-04-23 13:56:00 Opinion Mason-Dixon Poll: Americans Reject Court-Packing Independents overwhelmingly oppose plan to add Justices.
2021-04-23 13:47:00 Markets Oil-Field Services—Lots to Like Beneath the Surface Oil-services companies continue to see discipline from major oil producers and are demanding it of themselves too
2021-04-23 13:30:00 Opinion Jack and the Bean Counters: A Woke Children’s Story University researchers use artificial intelligence to reduce characters to the color of their fictional skin.
2021-04-23 13:19:00 Politics Biden to Travel to United Kingdom, Belgium in June In his first overseas trip as president he will attend the G-7 summit in England
2021-04-23 13:00:00 Experience Report Google Maps to Add a Greenest Route to Its Driving Directions The app will use factors like road type, incline and traffic to recommend the least polluting route—so long as it takes no longer than the fastest one
2021-04-23 12:59:00 Business Nestlé Looks to Buy Maker of Nature’s Bounty Vitamins Price being discussed for Bountiful is in the mid-single-digit billions
2021-04-23 12:52:00 World French Police Worker Stabbed in Terrorist Attack Near Paris Killing by unidentified assailant, who was then killed by police, follows string of attacks late last year
2021-04-23 12:32:00 Books ‘The Free World’ Review: Cold War Culture As the Americans and Soviets jockeyed for dominance, every page and painting was a potential battlefield.
2021-04-23 12:31:00 Books What to Read This Week Louis Menand on Cold War culture, a lost novel from Richard Wright, the life of a real Renaissance Man and more.
2021-04-23 12:25:00 Life & Arts Peel-and-Eat Pepper-Pot Shrimp With Fried Plantains Chef Rashida Holmes of L.A.’s Bridgetown Roti shares her quick recipe for pepper-pot shrimp with fried plantains. On the table in under a half hour. No silverware required.
2021-04-23 12:24:00 Business Drop in Toilet-Paper Demand Prompts Kimberly-Clark’s Worst Sales Decline in a Decade Sales in consumer-tissue segment fell more quickly than company expected and supply-chain disruptions took a toll; more price increases are likely
2021-04-23 12:23:00 Markets AmEx Needs People to Start Leaving Home Again Corporate travel spending on cards remains depressed, but trends such as younger spenders could help
2021-04-23 12:18:00 Books ‘Early Morning Riser’ Review: Small Town, Big Personalities In this latter-day Mayberry, everyone knows everyone else’s business, for better or worse.
2021-04-23 12:14:00 Books ‘Other Worlds’ Review: Sketches of a Spiritual Country With a deceptively light touch, the author known as Teffi conjured a Russia of everyday miracles.
2021-04-23 12:00:00 Business How Hubert Joly Changed Best Buy Without Everyone Hating Him In 2012, many predicted the end was near for the legendary Minneapolis electronics retailer. A new boss knew he would need to shake things up. The question was how.
2021-04-23 11:59:00 Life & Arts Pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout Plays Mozart and Beethoven As They Originally Sounded The period-instrument musician prefers an early 19th century-style fortepiano to today’s concert grands.
2021-04-23 11:52:00 Life & Arts Spicy Shrimp Recipe: A Peel-and-Eat Party in 25 Minutes Chef Rashida Holmes of L.A.’s Bridgetown Roti shares her quick recipe for pepper-pot shrimp with fried plantains. On the table in under a half hour. No silverware required.
2021-04-23 11:34:00 Masterpiece Creatures Great and Small The Frick’s move to Madison Avenue gives viewers the chance to see Giovanni Bellini’s ‘St. Francis in the Desert’ in a new light—literally.
2021-04-23 11:32:00 Markets American Express Says Travel, Entertainment Spending Improving Credit-card company says first-quarter profit rose to $2.24 billion
2021-04-23 11:05:00 Markets How to Keep Your Cool When Markets Are Sizzling When everyone around you seems to be getting rich quick, it’s hard to control your fear of missing out. But buying assets just because they’re hot is a good way to get burned.
2021-04-23 10:59:00 Life & Arts How Electric, Self-Driving Cars and Ride-Hailing Will Transform the Car Industry The era launched by Henry Ford more than a century ago is coming to an end, and the big question is whether the U.S. can keep up with China in the new race. Welcome to the world of AutoTech.
2021-04-23 10:25:00 CIO Journal Panasonic to Buy Supply-Chain Software Provider Blue Yonder for $7.1 Billion Blue Yonder helps retailers, manufacturers and logistics providers predict customer demand
2021-04-23 10:12:00 Markets Rémy Cointreau Sits Pretty in U.S. Drinks Cabinets America’s liquor market is on a tear. Companies that own tequila and cognac brands are faring best.
2021-04-23 09:59:00 Business Netflix’s Movie Chief Wants to Conquer the Oscars Scott Stuber on why the awards matter to the streaming giant, post-pandemic movie-watching and which A-list director he’s trying to coax into a film deal
2021-04-23 09:56:00 Life & Arts The Thrilling, Totally Boring Adventures of the Newly Vaccinated A pandemic altered ordinary life. Shots are slowly returning us to our beautifully banal routines.
2021-04-23 09:55:00 Books Five Best: Books on the Confederates’ Lost Cause Selected by John Reeves, the author, most recently, of ‘A Fire in the Wilderness: The First Battle between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee.’
2021-04-23 09:46:00 Books Mysteries: ‘The Measure of Time’ Review Defending an ex-lover’s son takes Guido Guerrieri into a maze of memories.
2021-04-23 09:43:00 World Covid-19 Is Still Raging in Much of the World as Global Cases Hit Record Highs New variants, pandemic fatigue and easing of lockdowns have virus surging in many countries
2021-04-23 09:42:00 Books ‘Sensational!’ Review: Heyday of the Stunt Reporter The ambitious women who broke into 19th-century newsrooms often went undercover to get their scoops.
2021-04-23 09:28:00 Books Children’s Books: ‘The Rock from the Sky’ Review Jon Klassen returns with a story of a dramatic new arrival.
2021-04-23 09:27:00 Politics Biden’s Pledge to Slash Emissions Would Require Big U.S. Changes While American industries are already moving to address climate issues, the president’s ambitious target would require them to accelerate transformation
2021-04-23 09:26:00 World Jailed Russian Dissident Alexei Navalny Ends Hunger Strike Opposition leader says doctors advised him to end the hunger strike because it was threatening his life
2021-04-23 09:22:00 Life & Arts 2022 Kia Carnival: A Great Minivan in an SUV Disguise Kia’s seven- or eight-passenger multi-purpose ‘family hauler’ offers the livability and convenience of a three-row vehicle, with styling that sidesteps the minivan stigma
2021-04-23 09:17:00 Life & Arts Eight Sweater Vests for Preppy-Modern Style A school-uniform staple gets a playful rethinking with exaggerated silhouettes and energetic patterns.
2021-04-23 09:01:00 World Russia Raises Rates Amid Standoff With West, Signs of Covid-19 Economic Recovery Central bank increases its main interest rate by 50 basis points to 5%
2021-04-23 09:01:00 Business Publishing’s New Word Order: Audiobook First Malcolm Gladwell’s company uses sound effects and original music. ‘We think with our eyes and feel with our ears.’
2021-04-23 09:00:00 Life & Arts Wilt Chamberlain Couldn’t Make Free Throws. Joel Embiid Can. NBA teams can’t stop him, so they foul him. But that strategy doesn’t work on this Sixers star.
2021-04-23 08:00:00 Markets Women Step Up Trading in Bitcoin, Other Cryptocurrencies Robinhood says quarter of trading in digital currencies is done by women, though that level lags behind their trading in stocks and ETFs
2021-04-23 08:00:00 Business CEOs Speak About the Economy, the World Reopening, Crypto and More The leaders of Citigroup, Delta and IBM, among others, discuss how business is evolving, as Covid-19 vaccinations roll out
2021-04-23 07:21:00 U.S. What Happens Next for Derek Chauvin? Ex-Minneapolis police officer convicted of murder in George Floyd’s death is expected to be sentenced in June
2021-04-23 07:03:00 Markets Wells Fargo Has Used Its Lockdown Time Well By focusing on consumer deposits, Wells Fargo is in position to be one of the biggest winners as rates rise
2021-04-23 07:01:00 Life & Arts A Deliciously Diverting Road Trip Through the Deep South This three-day itinerary from Nashville to New Orleans is stuffed with American history, sultry small towns and simple carbohydrates
2021-04-23 07:00:00 Markets Intel’s Dreams Meet Reality Sharp drop in data-center revenue and profit underscores major challenges ahead for chipmaker
2021-04-23 07:00:00 Business Battery Metals Are Hot, but These Miners Can’t Get Investors Small mining companies in North America are struggling to attract funding, despite growing demand for lithium and cobalt for electric vehicles and batteries
2021-04-23 06:54:00 Markets JPMorgan Apologizes for Role in Soccer Super League The U.S. banking giant had pledged $4 billion to finance the teams joining the breakaway competition
2021-04-23 06:50:00 Tech SpaceX Launches Crewed Rocket Into Space in Latest NASA Mission Liftoff goes smoothly as four astronauts head to International Space Station
2021-04-23 06:44:00 Markets Stock Futures Tick Up Ahead of Economic Data Tepid gains are likely to leave the S&P 500 on track for its first week of declines since mid-March
2021-04-23 06:40:00 Markets Behind Bitcoin’s Weekend Slide: Imploding Bets and Forced Liquidations Dramatic crash underscores fragility of cryptocurrency’s recent gains and vulnerability of individual investors
2021-04-23 06:00:00 Life & Arts Simone Biles Leaves Nike for Partnership With Athleta The gymnast will have her own performance wear line and activist platform at a female-focused apparel company
2021-04-23 05:56:00 Markets Stock Market Investors Must Keep an Eye on the Corporate Cash Mountain During the pandemic, cash holdings surged—and the levels convey important information about likely future returns
2021-04-23 05:40:00 Economy Global Economy Sees Pickup as Services Revive and Factories Boom Surveys of purchasing managers point to a pickup in growth in parts of Asia and Europe, as businesses hire more workers to meet an expected rise in demand
2021-04-23 05:30:00 Markets 3D Printing Stocks Are Still Running on Hype The buzz around the 2013 3D printing craze turned out to be a stock-market bust. Will this year’s speculation be any different?
2021-04-23 05:30:00 Markets SPAC Surge Pumps Up Junk-Bond Market Money from stock offerings is flowing into below-investment-grade companies at a pace not seen since the dot.com boom of the 1990s
2021-04-23 05:30:00 Tech Apple, Spotify and the New Battle Over Who Wins Podcasting Podcasts exploded in popularity during the lockdown and are on track to bring in more than $1 billion in U.S. ad revenue this year
2021-04-23 05:30:00 Derby’s Take: Downward Trend Takes Bond-Yield Issue Off Powell’s Plate, for Now
2021-04-23 05:30:00 Politics Climate Summit’s Final Day to Focus on Technology, Innovation Officials will weigh how to achieve emission-reduction goals laid out by world leaders
2021-04-23 05:30:00 U.S. J&J Covid-19 Vaccine Pause Over Blood-Clot Fear Heads to Review FDA and CDC are expected to get advice Friday on whether the suspended doses can return to use
2021-04-23 05:30:00 U.S. Climate Summit: How Do You Cut 50% of Greenhouse-Gas Emissions by 2030? WSJ analyzed carbon-reduction measures in climate-change proposals. Now you can decide how to lower U.S. emissions to 50% of 2005 levels.
2021-04-23 05:30:00 Politics Merrick Garland and Law-Enforcement Leaders to Confer on Federal Role in Policing Police groups say they will express concerns over probes like the one into Minneapolis while recognizing that changes are needed
2021-04-22 20:43:00 Opinion Joe and Jen’s Police Narrative Is ‘systemic racism’ really behind every tragic shooting?
2021-04-22 19:08:00 Opinion Will Biden Use Every Tool Against China? Trump fixed up an interagency panel that can filter predatory Chinese investment.
2021-04-22 19:01:00 Opinion The Democrat Fighting H.R.1 New Hampshire’s secretary of state blows up the claims of ‘voter suppression.’
2021-04-22 19:00:00 Opinion Biden’s 10-Year Climate Plan He’s committing the U.S. to a far-fetched CO2 emissions goal without a vote of Congress.
2021-04-22 18:59:00 Opinion A 43.4% Capital Gains Tax? Make that more than 55% if you live in New York or California.
2021-04-22 18:59:00 Opinion Hoosiers Lead the Voucher Way Indiana passes a major expansion of school choice.
2021-04-22 18:56:00 Opinion Walter Mondale Remade the Vice Presidency ‘We told the truth, we obeyed the law, and we kept the peace,’ he said of the Carter administration. They did more than that.
2021-04-22 18:56:00 Opinion Anticop Movement Wants Road Anarchy Too The death of Daunte Wright bolsters demands to get police officers out of traffic-law enforcement.
2021-04-22 18:46:00 Opinion A Measure of Justice in the Chauvin Trial The jury got it right. Now the country has to get the broader questions right.
2021-04-22 18:42:00 Opinion Let Investors Fund the Green New Deal Even Janet Yellen acknowledges private capital is the key.
2021-04-22 18:39:00 Books ‘Of Human Kindness’ Review: Theater of Emotions Shakespeare’s characters grew more nuanced over time, reflecting the aging playwright’s deepening concern with empathy.
2021-04-22 18:37:00 Opinion Biden’s Refugee Decision Is a Moral One Jews, Muslims and Christians have a shared imperative to welcome the stranger.
2021-04-22 18:26:00 Markets Snap Won’t Lose Its Luster Snap Inc. reported better-than-expected results and bets it can get just as many clicks out in the wild as it can in users’ bedrooms
2021-04-22 18:19:00 U.S. Biden Administration Moves to Unwind Trump Auto-Emissions Policy Move to end legal battle with California over its authority to regulate vehicle emissions sets the stage for tougher fuel standards nationwide
2021-04-22 18:17:00 Politics Supreme Court Narrows Protections for Juvenile Offenders Judges need not find defendants permanently incorrigible before imposing life without parole
2021-04-22 17:52:00 U.S. Supreme Court Cuts Federal Trade Commission Powers to Recover Ill-Gotten Gains Ruling deals significant blow to longstanding FTC approach against companies that cheat consumers
2021-04-22 17:43:00 CIO Journal Tech Chiefs Get Creative to Cure Employee Burnout More than a year into the pandemic’s remote work, corporate tech leaders try to help staff fight feelings of loneliness, fatigue
2021-04-22 17:36:00 Business Snap’s Revenue Rose 66% in Latest Quarter Strong gains in user engagement continued during pandemic
2021-04-22 17:23:00 Politics House Passes Bill Proposing to Make Washington, D.C., the 51st State Vote was 216-208, along party lines; critics cast legislation as Democratic power grab
2021-04-22 17:21:00 Politics Democrats Urge Biden to Keep Drug-Pricing Proposal in Antipoverty Plan Allowing the federal government to negotiate drug prices in Medicare has been a goal of party
2021-04-22 17:08:00 World Russia Orders Some Troops to Withdraw From Ukraine Border Move could help de-escalate tensions with Kyiv and the West, but Moscow’s continuing military presence in region appears likely to keep nerves on edge
2021-04-22 17:06:00 Logistics Report TravelCenters of America to Add Hydrogen Fueling Sites for Big Rigs Truck-stop operator working with electric-truck maker Nikola to start rollout in California; forms new unit to deliver alternative energy across its U.S. network
2021-04-22 16:49:00 U.S. New York City Councilman Pleads Guilty to Tax Fraud Chaim Deutsch faces up to a year in prison
2021-04-22 16:40:00 Politics Senate Passes Hate-Crimes Legislation After Attacks on Asian Americans Approval comes after two weeks of bipartisan negotiations; House is expected to consider bill next month
2021-04-22 16:30:00 Opinion Fixing Property Taxes: More Than a Rate Cut Reduce the assessed value of homes by a fixed-dollar amount before computing the tax payable.
2021-04-22 16:28:00 Opinion The Cause of the Pacific War and Its Miseries More than Soviet machinations, battlefield results shaped Japan’s decision.
2021-04-22 16:24:00 Opinion Consider Terms Limits, Fine—but for Whom? President Biden was a member of the U.S. Senate for 36 years.
2021-04-22 16:03:00 Markets U.S. Treasury Yields Mixed After Jobs Data, Tax Proposal Yields had climbed after data showed the number of Americans filing for unemployment fell to new post-pandemic low
2021-04-22 15:49:00 Opera Review Renée Fleming Warms a Chilly Night at the Shed The soprano, with collaborators guitarist Bill Frisell, bassist Christian McBride and pianist Dan Tepfer, tried to create a jazz-club vibe at the socially distanced Hudson Yards venue with a mix of classical and popular fare.
2021-04-22 15:43:00 Books Bestselling Books Week Ended April 17 With data from NPD BookScan
2021-04-22 15:41:00 World Pakistan Investigates Whether Attack Targeted China’s Ambassador Bombing in Quetta follows string of attacks on Chinese interests in the country
2021-04-22 15:34:00 Markets Hartford CEO Surprised by Chubb Proposal; Board Has Now Rejected Three A transaction would have been one of the biggest-ever deals in U.S. property-casualty insurance industry
2021-04-22 15:34:00 Life & Arts These Gourmet Meal Starters Make Dinner Easier and More Interesting A new generation of simmer sauces turn Thai larb, Oaxacan mole and an exciting array of other dishes into a stir-and-serve proposition.
2021-04-22 15:29:00 Politics GOP Senators Release Outline of $568 Billion Infrastructure Plan Proposal is narrower alternative to President Biden’s $2.3 trillion plan
2021-04-22 15:13:00 Business Tesla Crashes Raise Safety Questions in Congress About Driver-Assistance Systems Two senators urge automotive-safety regulator to look into ‘worrisome’ pattern
2021-04-22 15:02:00 Business Southwest, American Say Leisure Travel Rebounding as Summer Season Approaches Airlines don’t expect business travel to resume in earnest until more employees return to offices
2021-04-22 14:50:00 Logistics Report Ship Operators Move Toward LNG to Pare Emissions Natural gas-powered vessels are becoming more popular as a halfway measure as a search continues for non-carbon-based fuels
2021-04-22 14:44:00 Politics Alex Oh Named Securities and Exchange Commission Enforcement Director Veteran defense attorney and former prosecutor is first major hire announced under regulator’s new leadership
2021-04-22 14:10:00 Tech The Best Gear for Frazzled Parents, According to an Expert Clinical psychologist and mom of three Dr. Becky Kennedy on her favorite caregiving tools and tricks, from voice-recording buttons that ease separation anxiety to kitchen timers that promote mindfulness
2021-04-22 14:08:00 Life & Arts In Afghanistan, a Dangerous Surrender in a Misconceived War The U.S. response to 9/11 evolved from a campaign to defeat al Qaeda and the Taliban into a doomed project in nation-building. But complete withdrawal is no solution.
2021-04-22 13:40:00 World U.S. Concerns About Taiwan Put Focus on Island’s Defensive Weakness As Chinese military activity near the self-ruled island increases, security experts say it must do more to prepare for possible conflict
2021-04-22 13:33:00 Film Review ‘Sisters With Transistors’ Review: Electronica’s Female Trailblazers Lisa Rovner’s documentary about the women who pioneered this DIY genre perfectly captures its musical subject with hallucinogenic visuals
2021-04-22 13:32:00 Film Review ‘Together Together’ Review: Paternal Instincts Ed Helms and Patti Harrison star in a charming comedy about a divorced man who wants to nurture the surrogate carrying his child.
2021-04-22 13:12:00 CFO Journal Vans Parent VF Promotes Company Veteran as CFO Matt Puckett is expected to focus on integrating Supreme brand and expanding the direct-to-consumer business
2021-04-22 13:12:00 Economy U.S. Existing-Home Prices Climb on Tight Supply Limited availability of homes on the market in March pushed prices to the highest level on record
2021-04-22 13:06:00 Pro PE Deals Eldridge-Backed SPAC Scoops Up Ticket Reseller Vivid Seats The deal values the pandemic-hit company at about $2 billion as Todd Boehly bets on a concert and sports rebound
2021-04-22 13:00:00 Markets Americans Are More Optimistic About Their Retirement Savings About three-quarters of U.S. workers and retirees believe they will have enough money for retirement, new survey shows
2021-04-22 12:47:00 Tech The Correct Way to Wear Your Fitbit or Apple Watch (You’re Doing It Wrong) Fitness trackers are more popular than ever. But inaccurate metrics could be messing with your workouts if you strap yours on like an analog watch.
2021-04-22 11:55:00 Opinion Cuomo Finishes the Pandemic as He Started It, by Failing Seniors In prioritizing vaccines, New York put ‘equity’ and special interests ahead of the elderly and vulnerable.
2021-04-22 11:53:00 Opinion The Permanent Truth About Temporary Inflation Reduced living standards aren’t an accident. They’re the whole point of today’s economic policy.
2021-04-22 11:13:00 Tech Why New Induction Cooktops Are Safer and Faster Than Gas or Electric Rather than relying on flames or piping hot burners, these high-tech ranges use electromagnetism to heat the bottom of pans directly. Here, the pros and cons.
2021-04-22 09:43:00 U.S. The Derek Chauvin Prosecutors and Their Big Gamble Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison took risks, brought in outside lawyers, and won a rare murder conviction of a police officer
2021-04-22 09:14:00 Markets Nestlé Is Both Teacher and Threat to Danone Two of Europe’s biggest food companies had very different first-quarter results despite common problems
2021-04-22 09:00:00 Tech Intel’s Earnings Expected to Retreat as CEO Gelsinger Works Toward Revival Wall Street is looking for more hints about the pace of the chip maker’s turnaround effort
2021-04-22 08:54:00 Markets Credit Suisse Needs a New Strategy Raising new capital will reassure wealth-management clients, but CEO’s attachment to a crisis-prone business mix is worrying
2021-04-22 08:41:00 Life & Arts The Austrian Wine That Sommeliers Love—Ripe for Rediscovery Two decades ago, Grüner Veltliner was a wine-world phenom. Thanks to an excellent 2019 vintage, this dry, crisp white is ready for a resurgence, with some outstanding values on the shelves now.
2021-04-22 08:30:00 Economy ECB Keeps Monetary Stimulus On Track Amid Recession Concerns European Central Bank maintains pace of bond buys as Covid-19 keeps businesses shut
2021-04-22 08:23:00 Markets Change Afoot for Oil Market as Asian Demand Wanes, Iranian Supply Rises Increased supply from the Middle East and a fresh Covid-19 outbreak in India have flipped a key crude-oil indicator
2021-04-22 08:17:00 Business AT&T’s Revenue Rises as Wireless Unit, HBO Add Customers Media and telecom giant posted customer gains in wireless and media divisions while 5G spending boosted overall debt
2021-04-22 08:00:00 Markets Dogecoin Is a Joke, but It’s No Laughing Matter The meme cryptocurrency is part of a wave of excess that has spread across a bunch of speculative assets over the past year
2021-04-22 07:52:00 Life & Arts A Mother’s Day Gift Guide to Indulge her Hobbies Cultivate the new interests Mom picked up in quarantine (or would have, if she’d had time) with these 12 gifts, from art kits and books to tennis clothes and gardening gear
2021-04-22 07:30:00 Markets A Red-Hot Copper Fund Could Lose Its Shine Interest in a copper index fund spiked alongside commodity’s price. Despite metal’s bullish outlook, investors should understand what they are buying.
2021-04-22 07:23:00 Business At-Home Coffee Boom During Pandemic Powers Sales at Nestle Packaged-food giant’s focus on coffee pays off as consumers turn to Nespresso pods and Starbucks-branded products
2021-04-22 07:18:00 Markets Blackstone Notches Record $1.75 Billion Profit as Growth Strategy Pays Off Firm’s private-equity portfolio far outpaced the S&P 500 during the first quarter
2021-04-22 07:07:00 Markets Tesla Should Brace for Impact in China The electric-vehicle maker has cleaned up in China due to solid technology and a first-mover advantage, but the Auto Shanghai expo shows real competitors are roaring out of the gate
2021-04-22 07:03:00 World Australia Cancels China Infrastructure Deal, Citing National Interest Decision deepens diplomatic dispute; Beijing says Australian government has no sincerity to improve ties
2021-04-22 07:00:00 Markets Audio Could Perk Up Facebook’s Eyes and Ears The social-media giant sees growth potential in new audio features, including a Clubhouse competitor
2021-04-22 07:00:00 U.S. Derek Chauvin Verdict Might Bring More Prosecutions of Police Past high-profile police shootings have led to more prosecutions, but the increases didn’t last as high hurdles remained
2021-04-22 06:48:00 Markets Stock Futures Tick Down Ahead of Jobless Data The S&P 500 is poised for a muted opening as investors await more blue-chip earnings and data on the U.S. labor market
2021-04-22 06:30:00 CMO Today Overtime Raises $80 Million From Jeff Bezos, Drake, NBA Stars and Others The sports media venture, which focuses on younger fans, is starting its own high-school basketball league
2021-04-22 06:00:00 Politics Biden to Urge Climate Action at World Leaders Summit Many nations’ leaders are skeptical of U.S. promises on climate following decades of sharp policy shifts
2021-04-22 05:30:00 Markets Corporate Bond Gauge Signals Dwindling Economic Risk Speculative-grade bond spreads are narrow, a measure of investors’ outlook for the economy
2021-04-22 05:30:00 Business Netflix, Disney and Amazon’s Streaming Wars Heat Up Overseas With U.S. market saturated, companies are slowing Hollywood exports and spending billions of dollars to make international content
2021-04-22 05:30:00 U.S. Daunte Wright Funeral Is Thursday in Minneapolis George Floyd’s family to attend; Al Sharpton to give a eulogy for the 20-year-old Black man killed by police
2021-04-22 05:30:00 Economy Unemployment Claims Likely Held Near Covid-19 Pandemic Low Recent drop in worker filings for jobless benefits adds to evidence labor market and economy are strengthening
2021-04-22 05:11:00 Markets Greensill’s Australian Parent Placed Into Liquidation Creditors owed nearly $1.33 billion following collapse of supply-chain finance business
2021-04-22 05:01:00 U.S. Police in North Carolina Fatally Shoot Black Man, Prompting Protests Shooting spurred calls for law-enforcement accountability and the release of body-camera footage
2021-04-22 04:15:00 Markets Credit Suisse Taps Investors for Cash After Archegos Loss Widens Bank said it has lost $5.5 billion so far from the hedge fund’s failure, wiping out what had been a strong quarter for trading and deal making
2021-04-22 02:55:00 World India Hits Global Record for Daily New Covid-19 Cases The South Asian nation reported more than 314,000 new coronavirus infections in 24 hours
2021-04-21 21:21:00 U.S. Manhattan District Attorney Ends Prostitution Prosecutions D.A.’s move follows New York state’s repeal earlier this year of an anti-prostitution loitering statute known as the ‘walking while trans’ ban
2021-04-21 20:02:00 Artificial Intelligence Corporate Tech Leaders Are Mixed on EU Artificial Intelligence Bill Some welcome clarity on personal data use, others say proposed regulations will stifle innovation
2021-04-21 20:00:00 Real Estate SmartRent to Merge With Fifth Wall SPAC in $2.2 Billion Deal Seller of smart home technology also books a $155 million investment from a group including Blackstone, Lennar
2021-04-21 19:59:00 Life & Arts A Long-Awaited Return Trip to Puerto Rico The island has faced a series of challenges lately but its essential charms—and blissful beaches—remain largely the same, reports one former resident
2021-04-21 19:52:00 Opinion Biden Indicts the Minneapolis Police Investigating the entire department will burden the crime-plagued city.
2021-04-21 19:48:00 Pro Bankruptcy NRA Board Member Says Receivership Would End Gun-Rights Group The NRA kicked-off the defense of its bankruptcy filing and CEO Wayne LaPierre during the third week of trial
2021-04-21 19:48:00 U.S. Biden Poised to Recognize Massacres of Armenians as Genocide, Officials Say President said during his campaign he would acknowledge killings as genocide, a move that would upset U.S. ally Turkey
2021-04-21 19:25:00 CFO Journal Whirlpool CFO Faces Higher Costs as Component Shortages Force Production Line Shifts The appliance maker has limited visibility into its orders for key components such as microchips and plastics
2021-04-21 18:59:00 Finance Credit Suisse’s Exposure to Archegos Investments Grew to More Than $20 Billion Parts of the investment bank hadn’t fully implemented systems to keep pace with Archegos’s fast growth
2021-04-21 18:46:00 Opinion Amul Thapar’s American Dream He knows life tenure isn’t meant to create a judiciary of pundits.
2021-04-21 18:44:00 Opinion The D.C. Statehood Gambit The latest House Democratic power grab is unconstitutional.
2021-04-21 18:42:00 Opinion The Maxine Waters Problem When America’s officials desert any standards for public or personal behavior, expect violence.
2021-04-21 18:41:00 Opinion Biden Wants to Spend, Not Invest His plan draws down private capital to fund current consumption, not actual infrastructure.
2021-04-21 18:41:00 Opinion The Left Brightens GOP Midterm Chances Democrats won’t have a leg to stand on if they keep shooting themselves in the foot.
2021-04-21 18:40:00 Opinion How Planned Parenthood Can Atone for Margaret Sanger If it really wants to transcend its founder’s eugenics legacy, it should disavow abortion due to a prenatal diagnosis of disability.
2021-04-21 18:39:00 Books ‘In Search of a Kingdom’ Review: Navigating a Sea of Rivals A man who thought himself to be Francis Drake’s co-captain was tried for mutiny. The two men dined together on the night before his beheading.
2021-04-21 18:39:00 Opinion Want Infrastructure? Build Shipyards A lack of facilities to support naval vessels risks handing China a military advantage.
2021-04-21 18:39:00 Opinion Lebanon Could Use a Currency Board Such arrangements have worked in other countries whose economic and political woes seemed intractable.
2021-04-21 18:36:00 Politics Apple, Google Come Under Fire at Senate Antitrust Hearing Lawmakers, mobile app companies take aim at tech giants’ power over their smartphone ecosystems
2021-04-21 18:15:00 Business T-Mobile’s Former Chief Collected $137 Million After Clinching Sprint Takeover John Legere and other executives received lucrative payouts in 2020; a $55 million package for current CEO Mike Sievert
2021-04-21 17:39:00 Politics Derek Chauvin Trial Jumpstarts Police-Overhaul Efforts in Congress Legal shields protecting officers from lawsuits remain sticking point
2021-04-21 17:39:00 Risk & Compliance Journal U.S. Blacklists State-Owned Myanmar Timber and Pearl Companies The sanctions come as the U.S. ramps up pressure on the military regime in Myanmar
2021-04-21 17:27:00 Pro Bankruptcy Hertz Proposes Shareholder Payout as Part of Bankruptcy-Exit Plan The rental-car company has agreed to a revised plan to finance its exit from bankruptcy that includes a shareholder recovery
2021-04-21 17:05:00 U.S. After Derek Chauvin Verdict, Minneapolis Isn’t Taking Down Plywood Just Yet Businesses in other U.S. cities breathe a sigh of relief after last year’s unrest following the murder of George Floyd
2021-04-21 17:03:00 Politics Vanita Gupta Narrowly Confirmed as Associate Attorney General Senate approves longtime civil-rights lawyer as No. 3 Justice Department official, with just one Republican joining Democrats in 51-49 vote
2021-04-21 17:02:00 Business Walmart Is Pulling Plug on More Robots Retailer has been phasing out automated pickup towers as curbside services have become popular
2021-04-21 17:02:00 AI Experts Even More in Demand as Economy Opens Up Home Depot, PPG, Deere are among the U.S. companies planning to expand AI hiring this year
2021-04-21 17:00:00 Politics Capitol Police Watchdog, Acting Chief Address Shortcomings Exposed by Riot Capitol Police officials call for hiring more officers and bolstering training in response to the Jan. 6 storming of the building by pro-Trump rioters
2021-04-21 16:43:00 Markets Biotech Stocks Fall Out of Favor After Disappointing Trial Results, Big Rally Investors turn to banks, energy producers and other stocks as Covid-19 vaccines reach more people and economy picks up
2021-04-21 16:31:00 Tech Automation Software Maker UiPath’s Shares Rise 23% in Market Debut Company involved in so-called robotic process automation is valued at about $36 billion
2021-04-21 16:21:00 Life & Arts Top Public and Private Colleges in the Northeast The region has six of the country’s top 10 private schools in the WSJ/THE College Rankings
2021-04-21 15:46:00 Business Ford Prolongs Shutdowns at Several U.S. Plants Due to Chip Shortage Auto maker extends downtime that will affect production of its popular F-150 truck
2021-04-21 15:21:00 Television Review ‘Rutherford Falls’ Review: Monumentally Meh A Peacock comedy starring Ed Helms wades into the debate over removing historic statues, but the jokes sink fast.
2021-04-21 15:16:00 Politics U.S. Launches Probe Into Minneapolis Police Practices After George Floyd Killing Justice Department will investigate whether the city’s police department has engaged in a pattern of unconstitutional policing
2021-04-21 14:45:00 Arts Oscars 2021’s Red Carpet: Awards Season’s Comeback Story The 93rd Academy Awards ceremony will offer stars an in-person showcase after mostly virtual events during the pandemic.
2021-04-21 14:36:00 Bank of Canada Leaves Benchmark Interest Rate Unchanged, Will Slow Pace of Bond Buying Central bank holds overnight interest rate steady at 0.25%
2021-04-21 14:35:00 Politics Earmark Ban Splits Senate Republicans Ahead of Vote Practice allows lawmakers to direct federal money to specific projects in their home states
2021-04-21 14:25:00 Politics FTC Nominee Khan Signals Support for Aggressive Approach on Big Tech Sen. Cruz ‘looks forward’ to working with Lina Khan, but other Republicans question her views and experience
2021-04-21 13:19:00 Opinion Michigan Woman Defies State Travel Advisory Lansing resident sensibly visits vaccinated father who lives in Florida, where protection of seniors is prioritized.
2021-04-21 13:06:00 Middle East Iran Nuclear Deal Talks Advance as U.S. Offers Sanctions Relief Biden administration signals openness to easing measures against oil, finance and other sectors, but Tehran wants to see specifics
2021-04-21 13:04:00 Politics Biden Administration Moves to Unwind Trump Auto-Emissions Policy The U.S. will end its fight with California, setting the stage for stricter regulations
2021-04-21 13:04:00 Markets Auto Dealers’ Record Sales Take a Back Seat for Investors Supply constraints lead to impressive profits today but raise real concerns about business for the rest of the year
2021-04-21 12:53:00 Opinion Welcome to Joe Biden’s Boom Economy The economy is recovering at a rapid clip, thanks in large part to a $5 trillion infusion from the feds.
2021-04-21 12:32:00 Whats News World Wide What’s News: World-Wide
2021-04-21 12:15:00 A Closer Look Selections from ‘Oddity’ by Eli Brown, illustrated by Karin Rytter
2021-04-21 12:11:00 Arts Should You Watch the 2021 Oscars? A Skeptic’s Guide Theaters were closed, big movies were postponed, and TV took over. But the 93rd Academy Awards could mark a turning point. Here’s what you need to know even if you haven’t seen any of the nominated films.
2021-04-21 11:54:00 World Indonesian Submarine With 53 On Board Goes Missing Off Bali Country’s navy searches for the German-built vessel, which may have lost control during a drill
2021-04-21 11:51:00 Markets European Union Aims for Clarity in Murky World of Sustainable Investing Large U.S. banks are bracing for more ESG regulation in Europe and America
2021-04-21 11:12:00 Business FDA Finds Poor Conditions at Contractor’s Plant for Making J&J’s Covid-19 Vaccine Inspectors found the Emergent BioSolutions plant didn’t maintain clean and sanitary conditions and didn’t follow procedures to prevent contamination
2021-04-21 11:10:00 Life & Arts Men’s Skin Care: A Foolproof, 3-Step Guide Want great skin but lack the faintest idea of where to start? Here, three utterly simple steps to getting a healthy, hydrated visage, care of dermatologists—plus, the only three products you need.
2021-04-21 11:05:00 Arts The Academy Behind the Academy Awards, by the Numbers Ratings may drop for the Oscars, but the academy itself is on firm financial ground thanks to its investments and broadcast deals
2021-04-21 11:02:00 Opinion Is the War in Afghanistan Worth Fighting? The Biden administration’s decision to withdraw will not end a ‘forever war.’ The war will continue, then the U.S. will be forced back in.
2021-04-21 11:01:00 Opinion Bob Mundell Was Not Your Usual Economist He became a rock star in China for his advocacy of a fixed exchange rate.
2021-04-21 10:58:00 Opinion John Maynard Keynes, Old White Male Conservative? His intrinsic-value approach to investing was, in essence, a conservative way to build net worth.
2021-04-21 10:42:00 Markets Europe’s Most Valuable Tech Company Can Help the Chip Shortage ASML, which sells semiconductor-manufacturing equipment to the likes of Intel, expects to grow revenue by almost 30% this year and is ramping up capacity
2021-04-21 10:16:00 Opinion The Jury’s Answer in the Derek Chauvin Trial An officer’s cruelty, a mob’s threats and a long, tragic history add up to a conviction for murder.
2021-04-21 10:09:00 U.S. Ransomware Targeted by New Justice Department Task Force After ‘worst year ever’ for the cyberattacks, department seeks to disrupt digital ecosystem that supports them
2021-04-21 10:03:00 World Japan Can’t Be Forced to Pay ‘Comfort Women,’ South Korean Court Says Ruling on World War II sex slaves case breaks with a recent verdict in the same court
2021-04-21 09:57:00 Politics Biden to Propose Cutting U.S. Emissions in Half by 2030 Administration is looking to assert U.S. leadership on climate policy amid tensions with China
2021-04-21 09:04:00 Markets Netflix, Halliburton, CSX, Chipotle: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today Stock futures are pointing to losses at the opening bell
2021-04-21 09:02:00 U.S. Officer Brian Sicknick: What We Know About His Death An official finding that he died of natural causes doesn’t support earlier accounts that he died of injuries incurred during the Jan. 6 Capitol attack
2021-04-21 09:02:00 CMO Today You & Mr Jones Forms New Media Division Led by Former Mindshare CEO Nick Emery The new business unit will be backed with more than $300 million to fund acquisitions and other investments
2021-04-21 08:59:00 Life & Arts Why Sunny Puerto Rico Is a Terrific Covid-Era Escape The island has faced a series of challenges lately but its essential charms—and blissful beaches—remain largely the same, reports one former resident
2021-04-21 08:47:00 World Putin Warns Against Crossing Russia’s ‘Red Line’ Amid Military Buildup Near Ukraine Kremlin leader accuses certain nations of unfairly targeting Russia, while protesters plan to rally in support of Putin foe Alexei Navalny
2021-04-21 08:32:00 WSJ. Magazine Why Justina Blakeney Has Three Instagram Handles The designer and author, 42, whose latest book is ‘Jungalow: Decorate Wild,’ shares what’s on her phone.
2021-04-21 08:30:00 Life & Arts The Super League Is Dead. Here’s What Sports Learned. A powerful cabal of soccer powerhouses crumples amid outrage. Do fans have more power than previously thought?
2021-04-21 08:06:00 Politics Unions, Pfizer and a Record Label Helped Biden Inaugural Committee Raise $61.8 Million Wealthy individuals and small donors rounded out haul for televised virtual event
2021-04-21 08:00:00 Economy The Job Market Is Tighter Than You Think Solid wage growth and unfilled openings point to much less slack than after previous recession
2021-04-21 08:00:00 Health Pfizer Identifies Fake Covid-19 Shots Abroad as Criminals Exploit Vaccine Demand In Mexico, about 80 people received fraudulent doses, and in Poland authorities recovered vials likely containing an anti-wrinkle treatment
2021-04-21 08:00:00 Business Researchers Uncover Advertising Scam Targeting Streaming-TV Apps Fraudsters mimicked popular apps, siphoned off revenue from unsuspecting advertisers, cybersecurity firm says
2021-04-21 07:33:00 Tech Startups Crack Records as More Money Flows to Silicon Valley Chase for next big social-media app drives funding frenzy
2021-04-21 07:16:00 Markets China’s Green-Power Funding Is Blowing in the Wind After a renewable-energy investment binge, further progress depends partly on persuading power developers to keep building while the government still owes them money
2021-04-21 07:01:00 Markets The Americanization of European Sports Seems Inevitable Plans for a soccer Super League are falling through, but a U.S.-style shakeup would be in the interest of both viewers and top clubs
2021-04-21 06:36:00 Markets Stock Futures Waver Amid Concerns Around Covid-19 Infection Rate S&P 500 and Dow are on track for a muted trading session following two days of declines
2021-04-21 06:30:00 CMO Today NBCUniversal Hires Nielsen Executive to Expand Its Measurement Work The media giant is spending more than $100 million annually on data and technology initiatives
2021-04-21 06:22:00 World Artificial Intelligence, Facial Recognition Face Curbs in New EU Proposal The EU is proposing one of the first laws globally to regulate the use of artificial intelligence for ‘high risk’ applications like hiring and policing
2021-04-21 06:01:00 Markets Iron Ore Price Rally Blunts China’s Trade Pressure The price of the steelmaking ingredient has surged to a decade high, helping Australia as it navigates trade tensions with Beijing
2021-04-21 06:00:00 Experience Report ‘Gifting-as-a-Service’ Companies Want to Rid the World of Unused Corporate Swag Goodbye, oversized branded T-shirts? Businesses like Alyce and Snappy raise cash as the reinventors of corporate gifting
2021-04-21 05:33:00 Markets Private-Equity Firms Regain Taste for Giant Buyouts With a record $1.6 trillion in unspent cash, firms are looking for ways to deploy it in a pricey market
2021-04-21 05:30:00 Business Energy Giants Ditch Oil and Coal Projects. Smaller Rivals Want Them. BP, Rio Tinto and others sell assets for financial and environmental reasons, in possible boon for those who still embrace fossil fuels
2021-04-21 05:30:00 Financial Regulation Executives Wonder if Their Stock Selloffs Were Linked to Archegos It can be difficult for a company to know who owns its stock
2021-04-21 05:30:00 World Brazil’s Climate Overture to Biden: Pay Us Not to Raze Amazon President Bolsonaro’s proposition comes as Brazil seeks support from U.S. to curtail deforestation in world’s biggest rainforest
2021-04-21 05:30:00 Tech Tesla Apologizes for Its Handling of China Customer After Outcry Car maker’s public apology follows criticism from Communist Party body that the company is arrogant and sells defective products
2021-04-21 05:00:00 Pro VC New Money Startup Gets Backing to Create Clearing Firm for Equities Embedded Financial, launched by a former Square executive, raises $20 million in prelaunch funding
2021-04-21 03:06:00 U.S. Columbus Police Officer Kills Teenage Girl Who Was Holding a Knife Decision to swiftly release the bodycam video is a departure from protocol
2021-04-20 23:16:00 U.S. Derek Chauvin Verdict: Across America, Cheers, Then Calls to Action Many herald verdict as a victory in effort to combat police violence against people of color, although several said there is still work to do
2021-04-20 20:29:00 Markets Netflix Will Need Some Post-Summer Blockbusters Weak subscriber outlook means streaming giant will need a big fall season
2021-04-20 20:20:00 Opinion Railing Against the Wind Biden cancels offshore projects amid local political opposition.
2021-04-20 20:18:00 Opinion Jerry Nadler’s Double Taxation Lesson He unwittingly calls to abolish the corporate and estate taxes.
2021-04-20 20:14:00 Opinion Inoculating the Government The CDC and FDA abdicated to outsiders on the J&J vaccine.
2021-04-20 20:11:00 Opinion The Chauvin Verdict: Guilty The jury and the justice system again worked far better than political critics behaved.
2021-04-20 20:04:00 CIO Journal Big Tech Uses Cloud to Facilitate Covid-19 Vaccine Sign-ups Amazon.com, Google and Microsoft each have released platforms to manage millions of bookings
2021-04-20 19:48:00 Pro Bankruptcy Purdue’s Sackler Family Owners Worth $11 Billion, Documents Show The disclosures show wealth built up by Purdue’s family owners, who have offered to pay $4.28 billion in a proposed bankruptcy deal
2021-04-20 19:48:00 U.S. The Derek Chauvin Verdict: What We Know The former Minneapolis police officer was convicted on all three counts with which he was charged in the murder of George Floyd
2021-04-20 19:15:00 U.S. Arizona Governor Declares State of Emergency at Border Republican Doug Ducey says state will deploy 250 national guard troops, blames Biden for surge in illegal crossings
2021-04-20 19:06:00 Business Foxconn Shrinks Plans for Wisconsin Plant Electronics maker signs new deal with state to invest up to $672 million, instead of up to $10 billion
2021-04-20 18:35:00 CFO Journal Boeing CFO Guided Aircraft Maker Through 737 MAX Crisis In an unexpected move, Greg Smith is set to retire in July
2021-04-20 18:32:00 Tech Apple’s New iPad Pro, Apple TV, AirTags and M1 iMac: What You Need to Know Apple announced a hodgepodge of updates to many existing product lines, and revealed a new product as well. Here’s the rundown, along with our expert take.
2021-04-20 18:31:00 U.S. Lisa Monaco Is Confirmed by Senate as Deputy Attorney General Experienced national-security official takes Justice Department’s No. 2 job with focus on Jan. 6 riot probe, domestic and foreign threats
2021-04-20 18:24:00 Experience Report Amazon Does Haircuts Now The e-commerce giant said its first salon will be a place to collaborate with the professional beauty industry and test new technologies
2021-04-20 18:23:00 Politics Biden to Back Temporary Extension of Larger Child Tax Credit Some Democratic lawmakers have pressed for a permanent change to the payments
2021-04-20 18:18:00 U.S. Derek Chauvin’s Trial Was an Experiment in Pandemic Justice The proceeding to determine guilt in George Floyd’s death featured masked attorneys, plexiglass and white-noise machines
2021-04-20 18:08:00 U.S. New York City Mayor Unveils Plans to Curb Gun Crimes Community investment, redeployment of police part of plan to combat surge of gun violence in the city
2021-04-20 18:00:00 Opinion The Era of Easy Money Enjoy it while it lasts.
2021-04-20 17:57:00 World EU Calls for J&J Covid-19 Vaccine Warning on Blood Clots, But Says Benefits Outweigh Risks U.S. tally of blood-clot cases linked to the vaccine rises to nine
2021-04-20 17:53:00 Opinion Is AT&T a Train Wreck? The company’s epic adventure in reinvention reaches a moment of truth.
2021-04-20 17:52:00 Opinion The $1 Trillion Tax Evasion Opportunity A little spending on the IRS could yield a lot of revenue that’s going uncollected.
2021-04-20 17:51:00 Markets Apple’s iPad and Mac Moment Should Linger Tablet and PC sales got a strong boost from the Covid-19 pandemic. Changed work habits should keep demand elevated.
2021-04-20 17:51:00 Opinion A Shipping Crisis Waiting to Happen Enormous container vessels move goods efficiently—but a lot could go wrong.
2021-04-20 17:50:00 U.S. Derek Chauvin Guilty of Murder in Death of George Floyd Floyd’s death last May in police custody was captured on video that went viral and set off summer of unrest
2021-04-20 17:50:00 Books ‘Blood and Treasure’ Review: A Boone for the Frontier Daniel Boone despised his reputation as an Indian fighter. He was vastly more proud of his ability to endure the burdens of the huntsman’s life.
2021-04-20 17:47:00 Opinion The Lessons That Stuck This Year Students reflect on the books and classes that changed their thinking.
2021-04-20 17:45:00 Opinion Democrats Are Fooling Themselves on Immigration Voters didn’t always like Trump’s tone, but they broadly supported his strategy at the border.
2021-04-20 17:44:00 Politics Democrats Block GOP Effort to Censure Maxine Waters Over Remarks About Derek Chauvin Trial California Democratic congresswoman at weekend protest urged more confrontational approach if jury didn’t return guilty verdict
2021-04-20 17:44:00 Opinion Even in Cricket, No Rest From the Woke The venerable term ‘batsman’ has been banished from an ESPN website.
2021-04-20 17:06:00 Life & Arts Soccer Super League on Verge of Collapse as Chelsea and Manchester City Initiate Withdrawal Lavish plan to reshape soccer around 12 wealthy clubs is set to lose two key members, signaling that the unpopular proposal could quickly unravel.
2021-04-20 16:55:00 A Closer Look Selections from ‘Mr. Mole Moves In’ by Lesley-Anne Green
2021-04-20 16:51:00 Exhibition Review ‘When Practice Becomes Form: Carpentry Tools From Japan’ Review: No Nails? No Problem! A modest subject belies the magic of Japan Society’s current show.
2021-04-20 16:48:00 Television Review ‘Generation Hustle’ Review: True Grift An HBO Max documentary reels viewers in with the stories of brazen fraudsters who hoodwinked their victims in pursuit of fame and fortune.
2021-04-20 16:46:00 U.S. Biden Says He Is Praying for ‘Right Verdict’ in Murder Trial of Derek Chauvin President discloses that he reached out to Floyd family this week
2021-04-20 16:10:00 Business Simon & Schuster Says Mike Pence Book Will Proceed, Despite Employee Petitions ‘We come to work each day to publish, not cancel,’ CEO Jonathan Karp says in letter to staffers
2021-04-20 16:08:00 World Russia Strikes Islamic State Strongholds in Syria as Insurgency Gains Ground From desert hide-outs, militants have extended their reach across the country, attacking oil convoys and assassinating Syrian military commanders
2021-04-20 16:08:00 Opinion Afghanistan: The U.S. Can Always Go Back Harsh but limited strikes can deter and punish terrorism. Nation building is an expensive diversion.
2021-04-20 16:07:00 Opinion Tax Hikes Will Stifle the Recovery Biden’s proposal would make American companies less competitive overseas, resulting in lost U.S. jobs.
2021-04-20 16:05:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Meatpacker JBS USA Hires New Chief Legal Officer The appointment of Kevin Arquit, a former U.S. antitrust enforcer, comes as the U.S. meat industry faces antitrust scrutiny
2021-04-20 15:19:00 Tech Discord Ends Deal Talks With Microsoft Chat startup to stay independent as it resumes interest in a potential initial public offering
2021-04-20 14:50:00 Biden Pushes to Protect Power Companies’ Supply Chains Implementing Trump-era executive order could limit equipment from China and Russia
2021-04-20 14:38:00 Business Tribune Publishing Sets Date for Shareholder Vote on Alden Bid May 21 deadline narrows window for competing bidder Stewart Bainum Jr. to firm up financing
2021-04-20 14:23:00 Experience Report TikTok Adds Automated Captions, Making Platform More Open to Deaf People Advocates welcome the new feature, the latest move among social media companies to make their platforms more accessible to all
2021-04-20 14:10:00 Risk & Compliance Journal SNC-Lavalin Says World Bank Lifts Sanctions Imposed in 2013 The sanctions stemmed from allegations the Canadian engineering company bribed officials in Bangladesh
2021-04-20 13:36:00 Opinion Oscars 2021: An Academy Award Ceremony Like No Other The stars gather for another chorus of ‘Hooray for Hollywood,’ at a time when it feels like ‘High Noon’ for the industry.
2021-04-20 13:27:00 Life & Arts How to Navigate Changing Etiquette as Covid Rules Shift Nobody knows how to interact with each other as vaccines change our social expectations. Here’s how to handle it.
2021-04-20 13:11:00 World China, U.S. Close to Naming New Ambassadors as Rivalry Grows Beijing plans to appoint Qin Gang, who has accompanied Xi on overseas trips, and Washington is expected to name R. Nicholas Burns, a veteran diplomat
2021-04-20 13:02:00 Opinion The Driving Beat of Cándido Camero’s Conga Born 100 years ago this week, the popular Cuban drummer left behind a legacy that lives on in the rhythms of today’s music.
2021-04-20 12:32:00 Arts Which Oscar Nominees Should Win This Year? WSJ critic Joe Morgenstern picks his favorite contenders across the Academy Award’s top six categories
2021-04-20 12:21:00 Markets Regulator Bars Former Goldman Analyst for Insider Trading Finra says Brian Maguire bought shares in two companies after finding out about another analyst’s upgrade
2021-04-20 12:07:00 Markets Regulators Question Credit Suisse Over Recent Archegos-Related Stock Sales Any additional losses are expected to be small in relation to the earlier amount
2021-04-20 11:58:00 Opinion Replying to Jeffrey Sonnenfeld on Woke CEOs In a large U.S. corporation, it is anything but courageous to recite the progressive party line or criticize a conservative position.
2021-04-20 11:57:00 Markets Dealers Are Selling Cars So Fast They Don’t Need to Borrow Snarled supply chain for new cars is slowing banks’ loans to dealers, but surging used-car prices are a driving force for auto lenders
2021-04-20 11:57:00 Opinion Numbers Don’t Add Up for the Vaccine Pause Many more lives are at risk than 6 in 6.8 million.
2021-04-20 11:55:00 Opinion ‘Mom Cardigan’ Does Not Do This Garment Justice. The ‘mom’ reference and instructions on how to avoid a ‘mumsy look’ are pejorative.
2021-04-20 11:54:00 Markets Canadians Send Rail Valuations Northwards, but Not Beyond Reason A bidding duel for Kansas City Southern highlights sector’s unique attractions
2021-04-20 11:26:00 World China’s Xi Lays Out Vision for a World Without a Single Dominant Power Xi rejected ‘unilateralism pursued by certain countries’ and promoted the U.N. and WTO in a speech that didn’t name the U.S.
2021-04-20 11:11:00 World Japan to Reimpose Covid-19 State of Emergency in Tokyo and Osaka Ahead of Summer Olympics The two cities aim to curb sharp rise in coronavirus cases as British variant spreads
2021-04-20 11:10:00 Markets Johnson & Johnson Shows Health Economy Is Nearing Full Strength Covid-19 vaccine hiccups marginal as healthcare giant benefits from recovery
2021-04-20 10:51:00 U.S. Awaiting Derek Chauvin Verdict, Police Prepare New Approach to Protests Departments from Los Angeles to New York have instituted new policies after criticism of their handling of last summer’s marches
2021-04-20 10:51:00 CMO Today Omnicom First-Quarter Results Beat Expectations as Pandemic Impact Wanes in Some Ad Markets The ad giant said organic revenue decreased 1.8%, a turnaround after a 9.6% plunge in the fourth quarter
2021-04-20 10:37:00 Markets Biden Administration Resparks an Old Danger for Cigarette Stocks Companies most exposed to risk of tighter tobacco regulations have made little progress since threat came into focus in 2017
2021-04-20 10:17:00 World Germany’s Conservatives Select Chairman as Election Candidate Armin Laschet, who has performed poorly in recent polls, now enters race for chancellery
2021-04-20 09:55:00 Business Boeing Board Extends Retirement Age for CEO David Calhoun Chief Financial Officer Greg Smith to retire in July
2021-04-20 09:43:00 Markets Bonds Reflect Hope That U.S. Recovery Will Spread to Europe Difference between the yields on Treasurys and German bunds has tightened as expectations about the relative pace of economic recovery shifted
2021-04-20 09:41:00 Life & Arts Teens, Tell Us One Thing About Your 2020 The Wall Street Journal is creating a special project about the one thing teens want their future selves to remember from 2020. Have something to share with us? Let us know by filling out the form below.
2021-04-20 09:36:00 Business Daily Mail Owner Files Antitrust Suit Against Google, Citing Royals Coverage Publisher says its U.K. royals coverage was played down in search results; claims it was punished for not steering sufficient ad space to Google
2021-04-20 09:08:00 World Economist John Williamson Set Off an Unintended Uproar Coiner of term Washington Consensus, who has died at age 83, was offering guide to orthodox thinking, not ideology
2021-04-20 08:32:00 World Chad’s President Dies After Battle With Rebels, Military Says Idriss Déby spent three decades leading African nation in region destabilized by Libyan conflict
2021-04-20 08:00:00 Real Estate During Pandemic, Landlords Find Relying on One Office Tenant Can Backfire Leasing an entire building to one company is often an efficient way to collect steady rent checks, but some of these tenants are deciding not to renew
2021-04-20 08:00:00 Real Estate Blackstone Bets on India’s Rising E-Commerce With Warehouse Deal Investment firm intends to acquire and develop a logistics portfolio that could eventually cover 21.5 million square feet
2021-04-20 07:53:00 Markets Weak Lending in Europe Hampers Covid-19 Recovery Despite huge stimulus from the European Central Bank, companies appear reluctant to take out fresh loans
2021-04-20 07:45:00 Business Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 Vaccine Adds $100 Million to Quarterly Sales Vaccine now on pause amid safety concerns but could return to use Friday
2021-04-20 07:34:00 Markets The Covid-19 Risk to Markets Isn’t All Over India’s worsening outbreak is taking the sheen off its impressive equity-market performance
2021-04-20 07:26:00 Markets Travelers Sees Pre-Tax Catastrophe Losses More Than Double From Storms The property-casualty insurer reports increased profit and revenue in latest quarter
2021-04-20 07:04:00 Business Toshiba Rebuffs CVC Takeover Offer Japanese industrial conglomerate says it prefers to stay a public company
2021-04-20 07:01:00 Business Procter & Gamble Will Raise Prices in September Price increases on baby products, adult diapers and feminine-care brands come as the company reports slowing growth in latest quarter
2021-04-20 07:00:00 Real Estate More Hispanic Americans Are Buying Homes, Helping Stoke Hot Housing Market Number of Hispanic homeowners rose by more than 700,000 to nearly 9 million in 2020, the biggest one-year increase in two decades
2021-04-20 06:55:00 Deals Canadian National Plans to Make $30 Billion Topping Bid for Kansas City Southern Offer represents about a 20% premium to agreement with Canadian Pacific reached last month
2021-04-20 06:37:00 Markets Stock Futures Fall Ahead of Earnings Flurry Progress in rolling out Covid-19 vaccines and strong economic data has fueled the recent rally
2021-04-20 06:02:00 Markets The One-Way Bet on Carbon Credits Has Limits European emission allowances, one of this year’s hottest commodities, have room to rise further—as long as investors don’t all pile in at once
2021-04-20 06:00:00 Markets Cryptocurrency Giant Binance Hires Former Top Bank Regulator Brian Brooks, an acting head of Office of the Comptroller of the Currency under Trump, will become CEO of Binance.US
2021-04-20 05:30:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Compliance Helps Ensure Covid-Relief Pledges Are Met, Sallie Mae’s Compliance Chief Says Student lender Sallie Mae in January hired Kerri Palmer, a former risk manager for Capital One Financial Corp., to serve as its new chief risk and compliance officer
2021-04-20 05:30:00 Tech Apple Spring Event Expected to Reveal Latest iPad Pro, Subscription Podcasts Virtual event held from Cupertino, Calif., will show off the season’s newest offerings
2021-04-20 05:30:00 Business Netflix Faces New Test as Economies Reopen Subscriptions at streaming giant surged last year, but consumers are now looking to get out
2021-04-20 05:30:00 World A Covid-19 Lesson for the U.S. From Three Countries With Rapid Vaccination Rollouts Israel, the U.K. and Chile have different experiences after quickly delivering inoculations
2021-04-20 05:30:00 U.S. Minneapolis Braces for Derek Chauvin Verdict and Potential Unrest Destruction sparked by George Floyd’s death last summer leaves residents along Nicollet Avenue preparing for the worst
2021-04-20 05:30:00 Amid Republican Concerns, Fed Officials Defend Climate Work
2021-04-20 05:30:00 CFO Journal Tax Bills May Go Up for Big Companies. It Will Be Hard to Tell How Much. Public companies aren’t required to disclose the amount of taxes they pay in each of the states or countries where they operate
2021-04-20 01:03:00 World Covid-19 Slashed Carbon Emissions. Now They’re Climbing Again. The International Energy Agency expects a 4.8% rise this year, the biggest annual gain since 2010
2021-04-19 23:58:00 World Walter Mondale Dies at 93; Jimmy Carter’s Vice President Was a Civil Rights Advocate Democratic politician, statesman and Minnesota native raised the status of the vice presidency
2021-04-19 22:55:00 U.S. Biden to Increase Seasonal-Worker Visas by 22,000 Additional visas will become available ahead of the summer season
2021-04-19 21:23:00 Opinion Maxine Roils the Chauvin Waters The trial judge says her comments could lead to a successful appeal.
2021-04-19 19:26:00 Business Drugmakers Accused of Causing Opioid Addiction in Trial J&J, Teva, Endo and AbbVie Inc.’s Allergan say they acted legally
2021-04-19 19:06:00 Business Peloton Faces Mounting Pressure to Recall Treadmills After One Death, Dozens of Injuries Chair of House subcommittee says treadmills pose ‘grave and immediate risks’; Peloton says it won’t stop selling machines
2021-04-19 19:06:00 Opinion The Battle Over an Alzheimer’s Treatment Biogen’s promising drug is caught in the FDA’s political and bureaucratic limbo.
2021-04-19 19:05:00 Opinion John Kerry’s Climate Kowtow How much will Biden trade away in exchange for empty promises?
2021-04-19 19:04:00 Opinion The Stealthy ‘Healthy Ports’ Plan Beware green mandates that coerce truckers into the Teamsters.
2021-04-19 19:03:00 U.S. Supreme Court Weighs Whether Protected Noncitizens Get Green Cards Justices express skepticism that status conferred due to disaster translates to lawful permanent residency
2021-04-19 19:01:00 Markets Oprah-Backed Oatly Files for IPO The plant-based milk producer is backed by celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey and Jay-Z
2021-04-19 18:58:00 U.S. NYPD Creates Civilian Panel to Help Review Hate Crimes New York City has logged a 45% rise in the crimes this year compared with 2020, as offenses against Asian-Americans have increased
2021-04-19 18:57:00 Politics SEC Chief Gary Gensler Picks Top Labor Union Official for Policy Role Heather Slavkin Corzo’s appointment raises expectations for a progressive policy agenda
2021-04-19 18:43:00 Politics Proud Boys Leaders Ordered Detained Ahead of Trial Over Capitol Riot Ethan Nordean and Joseph Biggs face federal charges including conspiracy in connection with Jan. 6 attack by pro-Trump mob
2021-04-19 18:30:00 Opinion ExxonMobil’s Plan to Capture Carbon How to create new jobs by the thousands while ameliorating climate change.
2021-04-19 18:30:00 Opinion An American Epidemic of ‘Covid Mania’ The problem isn’t only the overreaction to the virus but the diminution of every other problem.
2021-04-19 18:29:00 Opinion God Is in the Punch Line If Chesterton’s right about humor, laughter can be sanctifying.
2021-04-19 18:29:00 Opinion Tokyo Flexes Its Talons Suga was hawkish on China, but the soft-power U.S.-Japan alliance needs work.
2021-04-19 18:28:00 Opinion Joe Biden, ‘Union Guy’ The president’s labor agenda is the same one he brought to Washington in 1973.
2021-04-19 18:27:00 Books ‘Nuclear Folly’ Review: The Big Red Gamble In a rage, Khrushchev started yelling and cursing and threatened to “nuke” the White House, calling JFK a “millionaire’s whore.”
2021-04-19 18:20:00 Business IBM’s Revenue Growth in Latest Period Beats Wall Street Expectations Profit falls as IBM focuses on reviving growth
2021-04-19 17:55:00 U.S. Derek Chauvin’s Murder Trial Goes to Jury After Closing Arguments ‘You can believe your eyes,’ prosecutors say of the public death of George Floyd; consider all the evidence, defense argues
2021-04-19 17:53:00 U.S. FedEx Shooter Didn’t Have a Red-Flag Hearing, Indiana Prosecutor Says Prosecutor says he didn’t have enough evidence to pursue court order that would have prevented legal gun purchases
2021-04-19 17:44:00 U.S. Covid-19 Cases Rise in Parts of U.S. Even as Vaccinations Pick Up Public-health officials say relaxed restrictions, pandemic fatigue, variants are contributing to increasing infections in some places
2021-04-19 17:39:00 U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick Died of Stroke, D.C. Medical Examiner Says Report cites natural causes in officer’s death, drawing no links to Jan. 6 attack, where two rioters sprayed him with chemical and were later charged
2021-04-19 17:36:00 Politics U.S. Treasury Creates Climate Hub to Coordinate Policy John E. Morton, a former Obama official, will head the new office
2021-04-19 17:23:00 A-hed Soccer’s Breakaway Super League Leaves Legions of Fans Super Distraught Protests erupt over plans by the sport’s most successful professional teams to form their own elite and lucrative circuit, upending long-held tradition
2021-04-19 17:14:00 CIO Journal Virgin Galactic CIO Sees Key Role as Company Prepares for Commercial Operations Technology chief Alistair Burns of the space tourism business says priorities include integrating IT systems, driving process change
2021-04-19 17:10:00 Health Policy Biden Administration Considering Rule to Cut Nicotine in Cigarettes Policy could be paired with proposal to ban menthols; FDA must decide whether to pursue menthol ban by April 29
2021-04-19 16:50:00 Tech Tesla Crash, Believed to Be Driverless, Draws Investigations Safety officials are probing whether car’s Autopilot was engaged at the time of the accident, which killed both occupants
2021-04-19 16:23:00 Tech Apple to Reinstate Parler, the App at Center of Online-Speech Debate Company removed Parler from its app store in January, citing objectionable content
2021-04-19 16:07:00 Music Review ‘Sweep It Into Space’ by Dinosaur Jr. Review: An ’80s Group Keeps Roaring The band’s new release does more than stave off extinction, maintaining its signature sound with extra poignancy.
2021-04-19 16:06:00 World Emboldened by Biden, Europeans Harden Line on Russia Concern grows as Kremlin threatens Ukraine and Russia’s main opposition leader’s health deteriorates; Germany and France hold back
2021-04-19 16:03:00 Politics Supreme Court Asked to Compel Airing of Secret Intelligence Court’s Decisions Petitioners say Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court’s rulings shouldn’t be withheld from public without justification
2021-04-19 15:48:00 Music Review ‘Heart & Soul’ by Eric Church Review: A Lively Triple-Header The singer’s ‘Stick That in Your Country Song’ might well be the mantra for his three-part, genre-defying set.
2021-04-19 15:28:00 Opinion How Liberals Explain the Decision to Leave California Now what can they say about Oregon?
2021-04-19 15:05:00 Politics Why Business Leaders Are Taking Political Stands Companies are feeling pressure from younger customers and their own employees to take a position on voting rights, other issues
2021-04-19 14:58:00 Markets Dogecoin, Once a Joke, Moves Mainstream Traders on online forums are whipping the meme cryptocurrency’s price higher following a meteoric 8,000% rally so far this year
2021-04-19 14:46:00 Politics Biden Infrastructure Meeting Focuses on Taxes, Scope of Plan President meets with lawmakers of both parties about potential changes to $2.3 trillion proposal
2021-04-19 14:13:00 Politics Merrick Garland Highlights Domestic Terror Threat at Oklahoma City Tribute Attorney general cites current concerns in speech on anniversary of 1995 attack
2021-04-19 13:54:00 Opinion What’s Behind the Attack on the U.S. Senate? Democrats don’t anticipate a Republican majority in the upper chamber for decades.
2021-04-19 13:52:00 Opinion Homes Price Rise Is Not Explained by Duties Canadian lumber mills are running flat out, exporting as much as they can produce.
2021-04-19 13:36:00 World India’s New Delhi Locks Down as Covid-19 Stretches Healthcare System to Its Limits Some hospitals in New Delhi are turning away patients and running low on oxygen and other supplies
2021-04-19 13:03:00 Markets Credit Suisse Prime Brokerage Co-Heads to Leave Bank After Archegos Losses Prime brokerage co-heads John Dabbs, Ryan Nelson to depart, according to memo
2021-04-19 12:01:00 Business Asian-American Professionals Push For Visibility at Work Since George Floyd’s death, issues of race have come to the fore in many workplaces; now, after anti-Asian attacks, more Asian employees say their needs should be heard, too
2021-04-19 11:57:00 Opinion The Agenda Behind Buttigieg’s Claim That Highways Are ‘Racist’ Midcentury road projects displaced blacks and whites alike. Tearing them down now won’t help.
2021-04-19 11:56:00 Opinion The Chauvin Trial and the Chelsea Handler Standard of Justice Today’s progressives prefer summary trial convictions based on popular sentiment.
2021-04-19 11:48:00 U.S. MyPillow Sues to Counter Dominion Voting Systems’ Defamation Claims The voting-machine maker sued MyPillow and CEO Mike Lindell in February for defamation over election-fraud accusations
2021-04-19 11:08:00 Tech Why the Chip Shortage Is So Hard to Overcome Semiconductor producers are trying to increase output, but the small gains are unlikely to fix the shortfalls hampering production of everything from cars to home appliances to PCs
2021-04-19 11:00:00 Life & Arts Grandpa Style: Why 20-Somethings Are Dressing like Senior Citizens Thanks to Instagram accounts like @Gramparents and books like ‘Chinatown Pretty,’ milllenials and Gen-Z are coming to appreciate their gray-haired elders’ fashion sense
2021-04-19 10:44:00 Markets Coca-Cola Sounds Alarm on Global Covid-19 Cases With Covid-19 cases surging in some huge markets, Coca-Cola is right to be cautious about continued sales recovery
2021-04-19 10:04:00 Markets China’s Meituan Seeks $10 Billion War Chest for Drones and Driverless Cars Company also unveils new generation of self-driving delivery cars it says are smarter, safer than previous versions
2021-04-19 09:54:00 Tech Union Appeals Amazon Election in Alabama, Says Company Violated Laws Petition seeks new election after Bessemer employees voted not to unionize; Amazon has said it followed all laws
2021-04-19 09:52:00 Business Harley-Davidson Hit With EU Tariff Ruling, Plans Appeal Motorcycle maker says ruling would subject its products to 56% import tariff within the EU
2021-04-19 09:50:00 Business Coca-Cola Sales Rebound as Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout Expands Sales volume in March matched levels from two years ago as vaccine rollout boosts return to restaurants and bars
2021-04-19 09:30:00 Tech Nvidia’s $40 Billion Deal to Buy Arm Under U.K. National Security Investigation Government probe of proposed acquisition from SoftBank comes on top of previously announced antitrust review
2021-04-19 09:30:00 World Alexei Navalny Hospitalized in Russia Three Weeks Into Hunger Strike Kremlin dismisses U.S. warnings of consequences if the Putin foe dies in prison
2021-04-19 09:12:00 U.S. New Yorkers Skip the Subway Over Crime Fears Police officials say the transit system has never been safer, but MTA says riders’ concerns are well-founded
2021-04-19 09:00:00 Politics U.S. Needs to Better Monitor Oil, Gas Pipelines in Gulf of Mexico, Report Says Congress is told abandoned pipelines in Gulf pose hazards
2021-04-19 09:00:00 CMO Today Omnicom to Acquire Majority Stake in Digital Marketing Company Areteans Areteans adds 600 staffers to Omnicom’s data and digital consulting unit Credera
2021-04-19 08:49:00 World NASA’s Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Successfully Makes Historic First Flight Intrepid drone overcomes extreme cold, dangerously thin air and flawed flight software to become first powered craft to fly on another world
2021-04-19 08:34:00 WSJ. Magazine Chelsea Handler Prefers Weed Over Coffee in the Morning The comedian, who recently released Chelsea Handler: Evolution, her first stand-up special in six years, also talks about learning how to say no: “I don’t know anything about boundaries. I’m a little late to the boundary party.”
2021-04-19 08:33:00 World Tesla Faces New China Test After Woman’s Auto-Show Protest Goes Viral Demonstrator draws wide sympathy after climbing atop Tesla Model 3 sedan and shouting allegations about faulty brakes, and videos show her being dragged away
2021-04-19 08:31:00 Markets Anti-Money-Laundering Prosecution Deals Setbacks to European Banks ABN Amro agreed to pay around $575 million to settle a criminal case accusing it of violating money-laundering and terrorism financing rules
2021-04-19 08:28:00 Markets The Earnings Season Is Great. Investors Are Already Looking Past It. First-quarter profits are delivering the largest positive surprises in sectors such as banking and retail, but those stocks aren’t doing particularly well
2021-04-19 08:22:00 Life & Arts New Soccer Super League Moves to Head Off Bans and Legal Challenges The shocking announcement from 12 clubs, including Real Madrid and Manchester United, has left the sport’s authorities scrambling.
2021-04-19 08:03:00 Markets Libor-Replacement Competitor Gains Strength From New Offerings Ameribor poses a challenge to the Secured Overnight Financing Rate, preferred by many Wall Street banks and regulators
2021-04-19 08:00:00 Markets U.S. Sanctions Squeeze Russia’s Bonds Despite Economic Strength Diplomatic campaign in response to alleged cyberattacks and election interference is raising borrowing costs for Russian government
2021-04-19 08:00:00 Life & Arts Strains, Sprains and Pinched Nerves: Injuries at Home Are on the Rise With the pandemic keeping people hunkered down at home, doctors are seeing injuries related to renovation projects, imperfect work set-ups and exercise.
2021-04-19 07:03:00 Markets Post Covid-19, Don’t Forget About Healthcare Stocks Industry should be in a strong position long after the worst of the pandemic is over
2021-04-19 07:00:00 CMO Today Travel and Tourism Brands Boost Marketing and Tailor Messages Expedia and Marriott are among the companies rethinking their marketing as consumers get vaccinated and travel and tourism demand grows
2021-04-19 06:45:00 Business GameStop CEO George Sherman to Step Down by July 31 Move is latest in a series of changes since Chewy co-founder Ryan Cohen joined board
2021-04-19 06:42:00 Markets Stock Futures Wobble With Dow, S&P 500 at Record Highs Investors look to a volley of blue-chip earnings after major indexes closed at all-time highs Friday
2021-04-19 06:16:00 Business Elon Musk’s Satellite Internet Project Is Too Risky, Rivals Say In a rush to claim orbital real-estate, competitors ask regulators to clamp down on SpaceX’s Starlink project
2021-04-19 06:10:00 Business Lithium Miners Ink $3 Billion Merger as Demand for Electric Vehicles Booms Deal would create one of world’s biggest lithium producers as commodity’s prices climb on growing EV sales
2021-04-19 06:08:00 World Why Covid-19 Vaccination in Poorer Nations Has Slowed, Posing Global Risks As the pandemic’s weight shifts to the developing world, a huge gap in vaccinations is opening with rich nations
2021-04-19 05:58:00 Markets Chinese Asset Manager’s Bonds Recover After Selloff Huarong’s debt had tumbled in price after the state-backed firm delayed publishing its results
2021-04-19 05:55:00 How the Pandemic Made Lumber America’s Hottest Commodity
2021-04-19 05:49:00 Markets China’s Digital Yuan Poses No Threat to the Dollar’s Dominance New payment methods won’t transform a currency that foreigners don’t want to hold into one that they do
2021-04-19 05:30:00 Politics Where Voting Laws Are Most Likely to Change for the 2022 Election Nearly 1,800 bills have been filed to change election laws, but only about half have a fair chance of passing. Even fewer will become law.
2021-04-19 05:30:00 U.S. Most New York Voters Say Gov. Andrew Cuomo Shouldn’t Resign, Poll Says The survey also found that 57% prefer to vote for someone else in next year’s gubernatorial election
2021-04-19 05:30:00 Risk & Compliance Journal India’s Adani Faces Scrutiny for Port Deal in Myanmar Adani Group says it halted transactions with a Myanmar military-linked company for a port project that it says doesn’t violate U.S. sanctions
2021-04-19 05:30:00 World China Stresses Family Values as More Women Put Off Marriage, Childbirth The emphasis on women’s role as caretakers comes as the country faces dire demographic trends; on social media, women’s-rights accounts are deleted
2021-04-19 05:30:00 Business Shell, Exxon Look to Profit From Capturing Customers’ Carbon Emissions Big oil companies are exploring charging for carbon storage, hoping to benefit from the drive to reduce emissions
2021-04-19 05:30:00 CFO Journal Expedia CFO Plans a Bigger Marketing Budget Travel giant hopes to capitalize on higher demand after cutting costs in response to the pandemic
2021-04-19 05:30:00 Education Princeton Gets $20 Million From Bloomberg Philanthropies Toward Diversity Ivy League school aims to boost support for first-generation and low-income students while helping other schools with their programs
2021-04-19 05:30:00 Markets Foreign Buying of Chinese Government Bonds Stalls Global investors pare China holdings as yields rise elsewhere
2021-04-18 22:05:00 Business South by Southwest Stake Is Sold to Owner of Rolling Stone in Effort to Keep Festival Alive SXSW took a big hit when it was canceled last year because of Covid-19
2021-04-18 20:00:00 Life & Arts Working From Home Has Created a Hole That Office Gossip Used to Fill As long as it’s practiced with kindness and tact, breaking down office rumors with colleagues can actually be healthy for workers
2021-04-18 19:00:00 U.S. New York Republicans Make Their Case to Take on Gov. Andrew Cuomo U.S. Reps. Lee Zeldin and Elise Stefanik as well as Andrew Giuliani will speak at a gathering in Albany on Monday
2021-04-18 18:01:00 Opinion The Castros Still Run Cuba Raúl’s resignation as head of the ruling Communist Party changes nothing.
2021-04-18 18:00:00 Politics Andrew Yang Is Top Pick for New York City Mayor Among Key Voting Group A new poll shows the former tech entrepreneur is the No. 1 choice for Democrats age 50 and older
2021-04-18 18:00:00 Opinion Biden ‘Stimulus’ Will Deaden Innovation Keynesians have it backward: Growth is driven by production, not consumption.
2021-04-18 17:58:00 Books ‘Beyond’ Review: Cold War Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, held symbolic value for the Soviet Union, which claimed to offer a better system than the U.S.
2021-04-18 17:52:00 Tech Fatal Tesla Crash in Texas Believed to Be Driverless Two men died Saturday after the vehicle hit a tree north of Houston
2021-04-18 17:26:00 Opinion Biden’s Defense Budget Squeeze More money for the welfare state means less for the Pentagon.
2021-04-18 17:22:00 Opinion The Fate of Alexei Navalny The Putin critic may be close to death in a Russian prison.
2021-04-18 17:22:00 U.S. Shootings in Texas and Wisconsin Leave Six Dead, Add to Spate of Gun Violence Gunmen targeted their victims and are being sought by police
2021-04-18 17:21:00 Health J&J Covid-19 Vaccine Pause Driven by Risk of Mistreating Blood Clots Officials decided that strong action was needed to alert the public, doctors to unusual cases and their nonstandard treatment
2021-04-18 17:21:00 Opinion A Salvadoran Immigrant Gets His Day at the Supreme Court Amid chaos back home, he received ‘temporary’ U.S. status—in 2001.
2021-04-18 17:14:00 U.S. FedEx Shooting Probe Centers on Motives, Gun Purchases Indianapolis prayer vigil remembers the eight victims of Thursday’s attack
2021-04-18 17:12:00 Opinion Why Would Biden Want a Summit With Putin, Whom He Calls a ‘Killer’? The new administration has changed the U.S. tone on Russia, but that’s worth nothing without action.
2021-04-18 17:11:00 Opinion Drug Safety Is FDA’s Job, Not CDC’s Clear lines of authority would make it easier to resolve the Johnson & Johnson complications.
2021-04-18 17:10:00 Opinion Queen Elizabeth Confronts the Silence Anyone who’s faced the death of a loved one can understand what she is going through.
2021-04-18 16:07:00 Politics Top Republican Says Senate GOP Could Be Open to Smaller Infrastructure Bill President Biden to discuss $2.3 trillion infrastructure proposal with bipartisan group of lawmakers Monday
2021-04-18 15:59:00 Politics Biden Officials Say World-Wide Concerns and Terrorism Justify Afghanistan Pullout Resources are needed to confront terrorist groups in a variety of countries, officials say
2021-04-18 15:51:00 World First Dose of Chinese Covid-19 Vaccine Offers Little Protection, Chile Learns The country vaccinated at record clip with shots developed by China’s Sinovac, then cases and deaths rose. Health experts say Chile dropped precautions too soon.
2021-04-18 15:25:00 Business Hotel Magnate Seeks Help to Save Tribune Publishing Bid After Partner’s Withdrawal Stewart Bainum remains committed to takeover effort of newspaper group after Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss drops out
2021-04-18 15:24:00 Life & Arts Europe’s Top Soccer Clubs Threaten to Form ‘Super League’ The proposal would see the six most powerful teams in England, plus six more from Spain and Italy, form their own tournament separate from the Champions League
2021-04-18 15:20:00 World Adobe Co-Founder Charles Geschke, Pioneer of Desktop Publishing and PDFs, Dies at Age 81 Computer scientist teamed up with John Warnock at Xerox and formed a firm that rendered traditional printing equipment obsolete
2021-04-18 15:00:00 Economy Economy Week Ahead: ECB, Jobless Claims, Housing Surveys of purchasing managers may also indicate differences in U.S., European growth
2021-04-18 14:56:00 World Alexei Navalny Health Concerns Prompt Russian Opposition Calls for Protest The jailed activist’s team plans rallies on the same day Putin is scheduled to address Russia’s national legislature
2021-04-18 13:37:00 Opinion Not Every ‘Serious Crisis’ Is Alike Biden faces a national mood, political climate and policy challenges nothing like those in 2009.
2021-04-18 13:35:00 Opinion When to Invest in a Stupid Idea When no one believes in the future, that’s an opportunity. When everyone does, sell.
2021-04-18 13:33:00 World Who Is Alexei Navalny, How Is His Health and Why Is the Putin Critic on a Hunger Strike? Opposition leader is serving 2½ years in a penal colony and has complained of poor treatment
2021-04-18 12:51:00 Business Fauci Predicts J&J Vaccine Returning Friday, Perhaps With Limits, Warnings A federal vaccine-advisory committee is expected to meet April 23 to review the vaccine’s path forward
2021-04-18 11:06:00 Opinion Why Was Daunte Wright Shot by the Police? Wright should be alive today. But let us not forget that his behavior set this series of events in motion.
2021-04-18 11:00:00 Business Supermarkets’ Revival Skips the Top Store-Brand Supplier TreeHouse Foods, which makes products for Walmart and other chains, has lost share during Covid-19 amid supply-chain challenges
2021-04-18 11:00:00 Business Drugmakers Go on Trial Over Opioid Epidemic J&J, Teva, Allergan and Endo are accused of playing down the risks of opioid addiction to boost sales
2021-04-18 10:43:00 Opinion MLB Hypocrisy and the Racist Castro Regime A special brand of absurdity gives CEOs license to lecture us on Georgia voting rights while doing business with murderous Communist regimes.
2021-04-18 10:34:00 Opinion Psychology of the Online Censor: Covid-19 Edition Support for extended lockdown practices has become a sort of weird, weenie Woodstock.
2021-04-18 10:24:00 Life & Arts American Gymnastics Tries to Execute a Dramatic Shift in Coaching of Young Athletes Abuse allegations and criminal charges have recast what was once considered tough but necessary gymnast training
2021-04-18 10:00:00 Markets WeWork’s New Stock-Listing Plan Has Echoes of Its Past Shared office-space company is touting fast future growth and high profitability
2021-04-18 09:00:00 Markets Netflix Is Chill About Pandemic’s End Streaming company faces tough comparisons with its pandemic surge, but dislodging it from the top position will still be hard
2021-04-18 08:21:00 World Queen Elizabeth, Ruling Without Prince Philip, Shows No Signs of Letting Up The monarch, who turns 95 this week, continues to work even as she cedes some royal duties
2021-04-18 08:00:00 Life & Arts Career Reboot: A Music Director Gets an M.B.A. to Land a Job at Ford Mitchell Owens pivoted from Catholic church work to a new corporate role; ‘I was a career switcher in all caps.’
2021-04-18 07:33:00 World America’s Longest War: A Visual History of 19 Years in Afghanistan U.S. forces are set to withdraw amid questions whether the current peace can hold
2021-04-18 05:30:00 Business Naspers Has a $100 Billion Headache Africa’s largest company is struggling to bring its valuation in line with its stake in WeChat operator Tencent
2021-04-18 05:30:00 Economy Economic Growth Is Set to Surge. Hiring Might Not Keep Up. U.S. economy could face bottlenecks, wage and price pressures as labor demand outpaces supply
2021-04-18 05:30:00 Markets More Stocks Are Participating in Rally, an Encouraging Sign for Bull Market Indicators are hitting rare milestones that are viewed as bullish signs, but some investors remain concerned about the pace of stocks’ ascent
2021-04-18 02:09:00 World U.S. and China Discuss Enhancing Beijing’s Climate Commitments Climate envoy John Kerry says meetings with counterparts in Shanghai were productive
2021-04-17 18:50:00 World Mexico Steps Up Detentions and Deportations of Migrants Detentions of Central American migrants in March by Mexican authorities more than doubled versus the same period last year
2021-04-17 17:56:00 Politics Biden Rebuffed Commanders’ Advice in Decision to Leave Afghanistan Top generals favored holding the line at 2,500 U.S. troops while negotiators pursued a peace deal
2021-04-17 17:30:00 U.S. After FedEx Shooting, Indianapolis Grieves Four of the eight people killed were Sikh; community holds vigils
2021-04-17 16:38:00 Politics House GOP Group Drops Plan to Establish ‘America First’ Caucus A proposal for the caucus highlighted respect for ‘Anglo-Saxon political traditions’; draft document met with backlash from Republican leaders
2021-04-17 16:26:00 Business Peloton Treadmills Unsafe for People With Young Children or Pets, Federal Agency Says Warning from CPSC comes after its probe into child’s death; Peloton calls advisory ‘inaccurate and misleading’
2021-04-17 12:04:00 Life & Arts Is Kokumi the Next Taste Sensation? Chefs and scientists are investigating a new flavor from Japan that promises richness without fat and may find an official place on our palate
2021-04-17 12:01:00 Tech These Technologies Could Hold Back Business Travel Indefinitely The rise of Zoom studios and FaceTime tours—not to mention specially designed robots—suggest a new reality for business-to-business dealings even in the most hands-on of industries: manufacturing.
2021-04-17 12:00:00 Life & Arts Lamb Shish Kebab Get maximum value from a lamb shoulder by butchering it yourself into multiple cuts for all your springtime feasts.
2021-04-17 12:00:00 Business TikTok Turns Average Joes Into Stars. Then What? Even when a creator scores a viral hit, repeat success can prove elusive
2021-04-17 12:00:00 Life & Arts Spring Lamb: Pro Tips From a Halal Butcher Get maximum value from a lamb shoulder by butchering it yourself into multiple cuts for all your springtime feasts
2021-04-17 12:00:00 Life & Arts Partner Keeping You Awake? Here’s How to Fix That Pandemic anxiety isn’t the only thing robbing us of our sleep. Some of us are battling a partner who snores, hogs the covers or goes to bed at a different time.
2021-04-17 10:00:00 Life & Arts How Trading His Toyota Corolla for a Ferrari Boosted This Rock Violinist’s Career Roddy Chong, who has toured with Shania Twain and Celine Dion, says his 2006 F430 is better than a business card; ‘It has opened a lot of doors for me’
2021-04-17 09:00:00 Politics House Republicans Who Voted to Impeach Trump See Fundraising Boost Numerous GOP primary challengers could split anti-incumbent vote in some districts in 2022
2021-04-17 09:00:00 Markets The New Denim Hype Looks Like a Stretch Levi’s and Lululemon are going in opposite directions on shifting fashion trends below the waist. The rebalancing seems excessive.
2021-04-17 09:00:00 Business Travel Boom Coming, Expedia CEO Says: ‘Hotels Will Come Screaming Back’ Expedia and Vrbo leader Peter Kern on leadership lessons from Barry Diller and what post-pandemic business travel will look like
2021-04-17 08:00:00 Life & Arts Female Face Shaving is More Common Than You Think Dermaplaning, or full-face shaving for women, has recently taken hold on TikTok and YouTube due in part to tutorials by beauty influencers such as Jackie Aina and Jaclyn Hill
2021-04-17 08:00:00 Tech Roblox Struggles With Sexual Content. It Hopes a Ratings System Will Address the Problem. Sexual role-play and ‘dating’ are common on the children’s gaming platform; parental controls help make it a safer space
2021-04-17 07:00:00 Art Review ‘Alexander Calder: Modern From the Start’ Review: Artist, Engineer, Giant A striking exhibition at MoMA celebrates the sculptor and his long association with the museum, in work that ranges from his inventive jewelry to his massive mobiles.
2021-04-17 07:00:00 Markets Clean-Energy Stock Mania Has Only Itself to Blame Massively popular clean-energy index is a prime candidate for distorting its corner of the market. But it doesn’t.
2021-04-17 06:05:00 Markets Citigroup Refocuses Asia Strategy as It Pulls Back From Consumer Banking The New York-based bank is planning to hire 2,300 people and expand assets under management to $450 billion in Asia
2021-04-17 05:33:00 World Prince Philip’s Funeral Set to Be a Ceremony Without Precedent Covid-19 restrictions have changed a long-planned event that will be closely scrutinized
2021-04-17 05:30:00 Politics In Punishing Russia for SolarWinds, Biden Upends U.S. Convention on Cyber Espionage Administration said Moscow breached bounds of acceptable online spying with hack’s size and attack on U.S. private sector
2021-04-17 05:30:00 Business A $16 Billion Covid-19 Rescue Program for Music Venues Fails to Launch SBA unable to accept applications from theaters, concert halls seeking coronavirus aid; portal to remain closed through weekend
2021-04-16 20:49:00 Pro Bankruptcy NRA Chief LaPierre Feared Going to Jail, Former Confidant Testifies Ad firm executive says LaPierre believed top lawyer was only one who could keep him out of handcuffs
2021-04-16 20:49:00 Politics Roger Stone Is Sued as U.S. Government Alleges Unpaid Taxes Longtime GOP political consultant owes nearly $2 million, civil complaint alleges
2021-04-16 20:16:00 Politics Mike Pompeo and His Wife Violated Ethics Rules, State Department Watchdog Finds In a report, inspector general says it found that Pompeo and his wife asked an adviser to perform personal tasks
2021-04-16 19:58:00 Politics Fetal Tissue Policy Under Trump Administration Is Reversed NIH says it will generally allow use in federally funded medical research
2021-04-16 19:10:00 U.S. Former Dean of Temple University Business School Indicted on Fraud Charges Moshe Porat is accused of submitting phony data to boost online M.B.A. ranking, attract more students and increase revenue; he has said administrators used him as a scapegoat
2021-04-16 19:09:00 U.S. In 13-Year-Old Adam Toledo’s Chicago Neighborhood, the Old Sound of Gunshots and New Anger Chicago’s gun epidemic worsened in 2020, with a 110% increase in illegal guns
2021-04-16 18:51:00 Markets J&J, Morgan Stanley, Coinbase: Stocks That Defined the Week Here are major companies whose stocks moved on the week’s news
2021-04-16 18:30:00 Opinion If Democrats Pack the Court After they add Justices, the GOP could strip their jurisdiction.
2021-04-16 18:27:00 Opinion Prison for Hong Kong Democrats Nine are sentenced, including Martin Lee and Jimmy Lai.
2021-04-16 18:27:00 Business NASA Picks SpaceX to Build New Lunar Lander Decision is latest in string of lunar-related wins for Elon Musk-controlled company
2021-04-16 18:22:00 Opinion The SEC’s Cryptocurrency Confusion Regulators harm investors by filing suits before setting clear rules.
2021-04-16 18:05:00 Opinion It’s a Mistake to Leave Afghanistan The Biden administration’s decision to withdraw without conditions makes winners out of Iran, al Qaeda and ISIS.
2021-04-16 18:02:00 Opinion Investment Options for the Unwoke Our funds choose firms that don’t let politics distract from their mission of serving shareholders.
2021-04-16 18:00:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: Pseudoscientific Styleguide ‘Journalism should reflect what science says: the climate emergency is here.’
2021-04-16 17:58:00 Opinion Why Struggling Cities Should Cut Property Taxes It’s the perfect time to reboot urban economies and help the country’s poorest homeowners.
2021-04-16 17:38:00 Business Apple Music Reveals How Much It Pays When You Stream a Song Streaming services open up about artist payouts, seeking to win credibility and subscribers
2021-04-16 17:14:00 Risk & Compliance Journal SEC Whistleblower Program Shows Value of Speaking Up, Departing Chief Says Jane Norberg, who has served as chief of the whistleblower office since 2016, is leaving the agency on Friday
2021-04-16 17:02:00 Politics Biden Keeps Refugee Limit at Record Low, but Scraps Restrictions Set by Trump President signs order keeping refugee admissions cap for this year at 15,000, signals intent to increase it by May 15
2021-04-16 17:00:00 U.S. FedEx’s Limits on Phones in Spotlight After Indianapolis Shooting Policy designed to minimize distractions meant some employees couldn’t immediately reach out to loved ones
2021-04-16 16:51:00 U.S. Man With Assault Weapon Arrested in Times Square Subway Station Officers on patrol observed man with what appeared to be an AK-47 semiautomatic rifle
2021-04-16 16:46:00 U.S. Oath Keeper Becomes First to Plead Guilty in Pro-Trump Capitol Riot Indiana rocker admits to obstructing official proceedings on Jan. 6 and agrees to cooperate with prosecutors
2021-04-16 16:46:00 Opinion Oil Virtue vs. ‘Sustainability’ Signals What happened when an energy CEO tried to order employee Christmas gifts.
2021-04-16 15:50:00 U.S. Attorney General Expands Federal Ability to Force Changes in Local Policing Merrick Garland lifts Trump-era restrictions on Justice Department investigations and consent decrees
2021-04-16 15:49:00 Film Review Oscar Nominations 2021: A Film Critic’s Guide ‘Nomadland,’ ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7,’ ‘Mank’ and more of this year’s acclaimed films, with insights from the Journal’s film critic Joe Morgenstern
2021-04-16 15:48:00 World Russia to Expel 10 U.S. Diplomats From Embassy in Moscow The move is a response to U.S. measures against Moscow over alleged election interference, cyberattacks and other damaging actions
2021-04-16 15:48:00 Masterpiece Siren Song of the Idle Life The Alfred, Lord Tennyson, poem ‘The Lotos-Eaters’ is inspired by Odysseus’ ancient quest but still feels relevant to today’s troubles.
2021-04-16 15:33:00 Politics Biden Faces New Pressure to Act on Russia’s Nord Stream 2 Gas Pipeline Left out of sanctions package, pipeline to Germany would hurt Ukraine, give Moscow sway over Europe’s energy market
2021-04-16 15:21:00 Life & Arts Muhallabiyeh and Hibiscus Rose Tart Rose water is a love-it or hate-it ingredient. If you love it, this light, floral dessert is a no-brainer.
2021-04-16 15:19:00 Life & Arts Tahini Toffee Pudding Author Reem Kassis adds nutty, sultry tahini, an Arabic staple, to the British classic sticky toffee pudding. The result is a subtly sophisticated take on a nostalgic favorite.
2021-04-16 15:13:00 Life & Arts Dessert Recipes That Take Arab Traditions in New Directions In a new cookbook, an ancient cuisine looks strikingly contemporary. Here, recipes for tahini toffee pudding and a creamy hibiscus rose tart that balance the familiar and the fresh.
2021-04-16 15:07:00 Business Vaccine Manufacturing Issues Force Moderna to Cut Supplies to Canada, U.K. The problems involve the Covid-19 vaccine supply chain for countries other than the U.S., the company said
2021-04-16 14:56:00 Business Boeing 737 MAX Electrical Problem Affects More Locations on Aircraft Jet deliveries remain frozen as continuing inspections force airlines to reshuffle operations
2021-04-16 14:37:00 Business Simon & Schuster Won’t Distribute Policeman’s Book About Breonna Taylor Shooting Book’s author, Jonathan Mattingly, was one of the three Louisville police officers who fired their weapons during last year’s raid
2021-04-16 14:20:00 Opinion How a Physicist Became a Climate Truth Teller After a stint at the Obama Energy Department, Steven Koonin reclaims the science of a warming planet from the propaganda peddlers.
2021-04-16 14:19:00 Opinion Media’s Racial Narrative Targets Whites, Harms Blacks An insistence on ‘systemic’ racism tells minority communities they have no power over their own lives.
2021-04-16 13:58:00 Politics Lawmakers Who Voted Against Certifying Biden’s Victory Saw Drop in Business Contributions PAC donations fell about 80% for objectors, compared with 35% drop for those who voted to approve results, latest campaign filings show
2021-04-16 13:55:00 Life & Arts Composer Thomas Adès Draws Inspiration From Watteau The elegant, ambiguous paintings of the 18th-century French artist helped to shape the style of one of today’s leading classical composers.
2021-04-16 13:44:00 Life & Arts ‘Fungible’: The Idea in the Middle of the NFT Sensation A Latin term that has come to mean ‘interchangeable’ now helps to define unique digital objects selling for phenomenal prices
2021-04-16 13:39:00 Life & Arts No Causal Link Found So Far Between J&J’s Covid-19 Vaccine and Blood-Clot Cases, Company Researchers Say Evidence of connection is insufficient so far, J&J researchers wrote in a letter to medical journal
2021-04-16 13:14:00 Business GM to Help Build $2.3 Billion Battery-Cell Plant in Tennessee Venture with Korea’s LG Chem aims for opening in late 2023, creating 1,300 jobs
2021-04-16 12:55:00 Fed’s Waller Says Economy Is ‘Ready To Rip’ in TV Interview Christopher Waller said he expects the U.S. economy to grow 6.5% this year amid a decline in unemployment to the low 5% range
2021-04-16 12:49:00 Markets What Is Dogecoin, How to Say It and Why It’s No Longer a Joke (Thanks, Elon!) Cryptocurrency that Telsa chief tweets about was created for laughs, serves no purpose and is now worth more than Delta Air Lines and Peloton
2021-04-16 12:48:00 Logistics Report Evergreen Looks at Moving Cargo From Seized Suez Ship With the Ever Given locked down under legal claims, pressure is mounting to remove and deliver its 18,000 cargo-filled containers
2021-04-16 12:43:00 Markets The Bull Case for a $100 Million New Jersey Deli Hometown International is the talk of Wall Street
2021-04-16 12:30:00 World Prince Philip’s Funeral Offers Princes William and Harry a Chance to Make Up Covid-19 restrictions around Saturday’s ceremony will limit opportunities for public reconciliation
2021-04-16 12:25:00 Business Hollywood Taps Into NFT Frenzy With Deal for Aku Character Shawn Mendes’s Permanent Content is in a partnership to use NFT character for films and TV shows
2021-04-16 12:21:00 Books What to Read This Week The rowdy years of late-19th century American politics, the genius of Poirot, a novel of buried memory from Cynthia Ozick, a physicist’s creation story and more.
2021-04-16 12:16:00 World With Militants Gaining New Footholds, Afghanistan No Longer Central to Counterterrorism Fight New terrorist locations are often much closer to Western interests than Afghanistan, from which President Biden said he would remove U.S. troops by September
2021-04-16 12:14:00 Tech These High-Tech Garden Tools Will Do Your Yard Work for You Innovations like autonomous mowers and weeding robots let you upgrade the way you nurture your corner of nature—and leave your neighbors envious
2021-04-16 12:04:00 Economy March Hiring Surge Spanned the Country U.S. payrolls increased in 49 states, with California, Texas and New York adding the most jobs
2021-04-16 11:46:00 Markets America Is Short of Home Builders as Well as Homes Demand for new homes is surging, but there are far fewer builders in the business than there once were
2021-04-16 11:15:00 Opinion The Business of Business Shouldn’t Be Politics We have obligations as citizens, not as corporations.
2021-04-16 11:14:00 Markets You Want to Invest Responsibly. Wall Street Smells Opportunity. Investors who hope to do good with their dollars are pouring money into ESG funds. Asset managers are eager to give them what they want—for a price.
2021-04-16 11:14:00 Opinion Noonan—Not Voters—Left the GOP for Dead Reports of the death of the party are greatly exaggerated.
2021-04-16 11:12:00 Opinion YouTube’s Censors Get the Science of Medicine Wrong Modern medicine doesn’t believe in authorities but in evidence.
2021-04-16 10:05:00 Books ‘The Age of Acrimony’ Review: A Raucous Republic The portrait of a time—not so unlike our own—when partisan discord dominated American life.
2021-04-16 10:04:00 Books ‘The Powerful and the Damned’ Review: How He Got That Story Editing a newspaper requires all sorts of skills, not least the ability to schmooze with the right people.
2021-04-16 09:52:00 Books Children’s Books: ‘Keeping the City Going’ Review
2021-04-16 09:43:00 Business Covid-19’s Toll on U.S. Business? 200,000 Extra Closures in Pandemic’s First Year Federal Reserve economists suggest business failures due to coronavirus pandemic were fewer than some predicted
2021-04-16 09:42:00 Books ‘Antiquities’ Review: Digging in the Dirt Childhood pain and ancient mysteries are intertwined in Cynthia Ozick’s story of buried memory.
2021-04-16 09:42:00 Life & Arts China Is Messing With My Magnetic Attraction All my life I felt the pull of magnets, but can I still be positive about them?
2021-04-16 09:39:00 Books Fiction: ‘Open Water’ Review Tales of trauma, dysfunction and old-fashioned love.
2021-04-16 09:38:00 Books ‘Genesis’ Review: Finding God in the Details One of the discoverers of the Higgs boson offers an account of the first cosmic ‘days.’ They were long ones.
2021-04-16 09:35:00 Books Five Best: Books on Revolutionary Women Selected by Stephanie Dray, the author, most recently, of the novel ‘The Women of Chateau Lafayette.’
2021-04-16 09:34:00 Books ‘Agatha Christie’s Poirot’ Review: The Mind and the Mustache The great writer of the English mystery required, for her enduringly popular sleuth, an outsider.
2021-04-16 09:32:00 Books Science Fiction: ‘Lord of Order’ Review A downriver dystopia in which puritanical powers set their sights on sinful New Orleans.
2021-04-16 09:24:00 Markets Morgan Stanley Books Archegos Loss, but Profit Hits New High Crazy quarter in markets helped push the bank and its Wall Street rivals to big earnings
2021-04-16 09:04:00 Markets Alcoa, DraftKings, PPG, Morgan Stanley: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today Stock futures ticked higher after the Dow and S&P 500 reached record closes
2021-04-16 09:00:00 Life & Arts After a Long Covid Break, the Vancouver Canucks Are Still In the Penalty Box The team was supposed to resume play Friday after a 23-day pause caused by a massive coronavirus outbreak in its ranks. Its return has been delayed again.
2021-04-16 09:00:00 Markets U.S. Designates Taiwan a Currency Manipulator The Treasury report has traditionally been used as a diplomatic tool
2021-04-16 08:59:00 Markets Mercedes-Benz Faces an Open Road Today, Traffic Tomorrow Two exceptionally profitable quarters for the luxury-car brand highlight what Daimler has to lose from the transition to electric vehicles
2021-04-16 08:55:00 Finance Saudi Aramco Looks to Supply-Chain Finance to Free Up Cash Saudi oil giant approached banks to set up a type of corporate cash advance program that could cover up to $2 billion in payments each month
2021-04-16 08:28:00 Pro Bankruptcy Hertz Bankruptcy Bidding War Heats Up With New Counteroffer A consortium of investors led by Knighthead and Certares made a counterproposal for the bankrupt rental car giant, with backing from Apollo
2021-04-16 08:07:00 China China Plans to Approve First Foreign Covid-19 Vaccine by July The final timing of Beijing’s decision to green light the BioNTech shot will depend in part on approval of Chinese vaccines abroad
2021-04-16 08:00:00 Life & Arts Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport: An Immodestly Fast Ride Boasting 16 cylinders and a rear wing, Bugatti’s Chiron Pur Sport has more power and torque than you’ll ever need. What’s surprising is how comfortable and easy the driving is, at any speed.
2021-04-16 07:58:00 Markets Toshiba Shareholders May Finally Get Their Due They have had a rough ride for a decade, but now a possible bidding war looms
2021-04-16 07:41:00 World Iran Begins Enriching Uranium at 60% Amid Slow Progress in Nuclear Talks The move comes after an attack on Iran’s nuclear facility at Natanz
2021-04-16 07:03:00 Markets Shortage Won’t Chip Away at Big Tech Earnings—Yet Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Facebook could still feel effects of the chip shortage down the road, though near-term results are expected to remain strong
2021-04-16 07:00:00 Business J&J Privately Asked Rival Covid-19 Vaccine Makers to Probe Clotting Risks AstraZeneca was interested in joining forces to investigate the safety issue and communicate vaccine benefits and risks, but Pfizer and Moderna didn’t see the need for group action
2021-04-16 07:00:00 Business To Win Electric-Vehicle Wars, Europe’s Auto CEOs Want More Taxes on Gas Guzzlers Higher taxes would help ensure EVs remain attractive to consumers after subsidies expire, executives say
2021-04-16 07:00:00 Politics Japan Wants U.S. Back in the TPP. It Will Likely Have to Wait. Biden administration in no rush to rejoin Trans-Pacific Partnership as it reviews inherited trade policies and focuses on domestic agenda
2021-04-16 06:58:00 U.S. Shooting at Indianapolis FedEx Facility Leaves at Least Eight Dead At least five people taken to hospitals after attack near Indianapolis airport; gunman killed himself, police say
2021-04-16 06:56:00 Markets Bitcoin Payments to Be Banned in Turkey After Confidence Drops in Lira Turkish lira has plummeted this year, leading locals to keep savings in dollars, euros and bitcoin
2021-04-16 06:45:00 World China Growth Numbers Betray Waning Momentum Underneath the first quarter’s record year-over-year expansion, GDP compared with the quarter before was up a sluggish 0.6%
2021-04-16 06:32:00 Life & Arts Pork Chop Ssam This streamlined take on a Korean feast retains the sense of occasion that makes it so special
2021-04-16 06:30:00 Business New Covid-19 Strains Prompt Lilly to Seek to End U.S. Use of Single Antibody Drug Alone Drugmaker says bamlanivimab should instead be taken in combination with another antibody treatment, etesevimab
2021-04-16 06:24:00 Life & Arts A Pork Chop Ssam Recipe Perfect for Sharing This streamlined take on a Korean feast retains the sense of occasion that makes it so special
2021-04-16 06:03:00 World Hong Kong Newspaper Tycoon Jimmy Lai Jailed Over Role in Peaceful Protest Martin Lee receives a suspended sentence
2021-04-16 05:33:00 U.S. U.S. Debt Is at a Record High, but the Risk Calculus Is Changing Some say the traditional debt-to-GDP ratio is no longer meaningful
2021-04-16 05:30:00 Tech The Chip Shortage Is Bad. Taiwan’s Drought Threatens to Make It Worse. Island’s worst dry spell in half a century has added strain to a center of semiconductor manufacturing
2021-04-16 05:30:00 Markets New Investors Discover Tax Pitfalls of Robinhood and Other Trading Apps Common tax-minimizing strategies are difficult or impossible to implement on the trading platforms that have boomed in popularity in the past year
2021-04-16 05:30:00 Politics Bipartisan Effort to Relieve Poor Drivers Skirts Policing Disputes Arizona governor signs legislation to end license suspensions for outstanding fines
2021-04-16 05:30:00 Markets Bitcoin Firm Galaxy Digital Names Ex-Goldman Executive Michael Daffey as Chairman Appointment is firm’s latest maneuver as it prepares for U.S. IPO later this year
2021-04-16 05:30:00 Markets SPAC Hot Streak Put on Ice by Regulatory Warnings SEC steps up scrutiny of accounting and growth projections for newly public startups
2021-04-16 05:30:00 Markets With Pot Taxes, It’s Bad to Get Too High New York’s 13% levy on legal cannabis sales should help it avoid the mistakes of states like California, whose hefty taxes help underground dealers
2021-04-16 03:42:00 Markets Stock Futures Steady After S&P 500 Hits Record Strong start to earnings season and upbeat economic data have pushed shares higher
2021-04-15 23:04:00 World Chinese Economy Grew More Than 18% in First Quarter The year-over-year GDP growth rate will almost certainly trend lower in coming quarters
2021-04-15 19:23:00 Logistics Report Autonomous-Truck Developer TuSimple Plans Driverless Road Test This Year The company raised $1.08 billion in an IPO Thursday that came as the U.S. is investigating the startup’s ties to China
2021-04-15 19:14:00 Opinion Biden’s Country-by-Country Tax Canard His idea for taxing overseas profits is too much even for Europe.
2021-04-15 19:12:00 Opinion Republicans and Immigrants Need Each Other The GOP should be the party of the working and middle classes, whatever their country of origin.
2021-04-15 18:55:00 Opinion The Ambassador of Blame America First We’ve come a long way from Pat Moynihan and Jeane Kirkpatrick.
2021-04-15 18:53:00 Business American Airlines’ CEO on Voter Access and What Comes Next in Texas Doug Parker explains why carrier signed letter opposing ‘discriminatory’ voting legislation as Republicans seek tighter election rules
2021-04-15 18:52:00 Opinion A Bad Day for Vladimir Putin Joe Biden’s sanctions will bite, and they come at the right time.
2021-04-15 18:48:00 Opinion The Great Student-Loan Income Transfer Payment forbearance costs $5 billion a month, as the affluent benefit.
2021-04-15 18:46:00 Opinion Cruise Ships in the CDC Dock The entire industry is shut down in the U.S., while Europe and Asia are sailing again.
2021-04-15 18:38:00 Opinion Dr. Fauci and the ‘Liberty Thing’ The government doctor refuses to share a medical opinion.
2021-04-15 18:32:00 World Canada Can Keep Returning Asylum Seekers to U.S., Court Rules Decision reverses a lower-court ruling and sets up possible challenge in Supreme Court of Canada
2021-04-15 18:28:00 Politics House Passes Paycheck Fairness Act Aimed at Closing Gender Pay Gap Women’s wages have plateaued relative to men’s earnings in the past decade, says the Labor Department
2021-04-15 18:27:00 Opinion Ponzi’s Foundation for Madoff’s Pyramid Courts used 20th-century precedents to resolve claims over a 21st-century swindle.
2021-04-15 18:26:00 Books ‘2034’ Review: Navigating a Disaster A work of fiction, co-authored by a retired Navy admiral, that envisions a catastrophic showdown in the South China Sea.
2021-04-15 18:26:00 Opinion Can Pope Francis Head Off a Schism? He should say no to demands by German bishops to embrace modern mores.
2021-04-15 18:20:00 Politics Lawmakers Look Into Bipartisan Compromise on Infrastructure Some Republicans want to make a less-expensive GOP counterproposal to Biden’s plan, while others are hoping for a deal with Democrats
2021-04-15 18:17:00 Opinion Is India Still a Democracy? The Answer Isn’t So Clear Freedom House demotes the country to ‘partly free,’ making the free world a lot less populous.
2021-04-15 17:56:00 Business CBS to Combine News and TV Stations Divisions Neeraj Khemlani and Wendy McMahon will share responsibility for the broadcast news division and CBS’s television stations
2021-04-15 17:49:00 Books Bestselling Books Week Ended April 10 With data from NPD BookScan
2021-04-15 17:43:00 Politics Intelligence Was Limited That Russia Offered Bounties on U.S. Troops, White House Says Administration assigns ‘low to moderate’ confidence in intelligence behind explosive reports
2021-04-15 17:35:00 U.S. Adam Toledo Video Shows 13-Year-Old Boy Fatally Shot by Chicago Police Officials call for calm as body cam video shows the teenager’s final moments
2021-04-15 17:18:00 Politics Democratic Lawmakers Air Differences on Overhauling Supreme Court Pelosi backs Biden’s deliberative approach after progressives introduce bill to expand the court
2021-04-15 17:16:00 Markets Massachusetts Seeks Revocation of Robinhood’s Registration Filing by regulators comes as popular broker-dealer levels complaint against state
2021-04-15 17:11:00 Television Review ‘Mare of Easttown’ Review: All Gone but Not Forgotten In an HBO drama, Kate Winslet stars as a small-town detective haunted by her tragic past and the unsolved disappearance of a local girl.
2021-04-15 17:10:00 Film Review ‘Vanquish’ Review: Mother With a Body Count Morgan Freeman and Ruby Rose co-star as a crooked ex-cop and the assassin he blackmails into carrying out his hits.
2021-04-15 17:09:00 U.S. Says Russian Cyber Firm Provided Venue for Recruiting Spies The Treasury Department sanctions tech companies in response to the SolarWinds hack and election interference
2021-04-15 17:08:00 Television Review ‘Secrets of the Whales’ Review: Dispatches From the Deep Narrated by Sigourney Weaver, a Disney+ series offers an intimate view of these majestic creatures.
2021-04-15 17:07:00 Film Review ‘Monday’ Review: Dancing Around Happiness After two Americans, played by Sebastian Stan and Denise Gough, meet in a Greek club, they see if a serious relationship can live up to their electric chance encounter.
2021-04-15 16:52:00 Fed’s Daly Says Frequency of Fed Market Interventions Is Concerning The San Francisco Fed leader says the central bank should be the last, not first, line of defense for stressed markets
2021-04-15 16:48:00 World U.S., Iranian Nuclear Negotiators Look for Ways to Untie Sanctions Knot Vienna talks seek to plot course to economic relief in exchange for return to atomic limits
2021-04-15 16:40:00 Life & Arts The Tragedy of Vandalizing the Past The 20th anniversary of the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan reminds us of the imperative of historical preservation
2021-04-15 16:25:00 Life & Arts Hosting a Dinner? Try Matching Your Dress to Your Plates After a year of isolation, entertaining at home is finally possible, and some women are rising to the occasion by matching their outfits to their table settings. Brands like Off-White and La DoubleJ are zealously catering to the trend.
2021-04-15 16:16:00 Tech AppLovin Shares Fall 19% in Market Debut CEO says the business is ‘quite profitable from a cash perspective’ after raising $1.8 billion in IPO
2021-04-15 16:16:00 Markets SoftBank Infusion Meant to Pay Back Credit Suisse Investors Went to Greensill Bank That $440 million took a detour, complicating Credit Suisse’s efforts to recover money owed to investors after Greensill collapsed into bankruptcy
2021-04-15 16:15:00 Markets U.S. Treasury Yields Fell Sharply Yields’ biggest one-day drop since November reflects renewed demand for government debt after sustained selling in first quarter
2021-04-15 15:50:00 Real Estate Want a Lighting Bargain? Vintage Chandeliers Are Unbelievably Cheap Though obsessed with every other retro design trend, millennials tend to disdain chandeliers. Result: You can pick up a gorgeous antique crystal version for as little as $275.
2021-04-15 15:09:00 Opinion The Misguided Philosophy of Tax and Spend Middle-class families earning well below $400,000 will share with the wealthy the burden of Biden’s spending binge—‘tax-free.’
2021-04-15 15:07:00 Opinion Red Sox Whiff on Race-Heavy School Reform Boston didn’t win the World Series by mandating diversity.
2021-04-15 15:05:00 Opinion Mexican Businessman’s Holding Company Responds We disagree with the portrayal of Grupo Fertinal.
2021-04-15 14:35:00 Politics Capitol Police Needed to Be Better Armed for Riot on Jan. 6, Watchdog Says Force’s inspector general cites poor preparation, inadequate intelligence for failure to control mob that stormed legislature
2021-04-15 14:33:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Former Braskem CEO Pleads Guilty to ‘Operation Car Wash’ Charges in U.S. José Carlos Grubisich pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiring to violate U.S. antibribery law, which carry a possible sentence of 10 years
2021-04-15 14:19:00 Life & Arts The Best Frozen Pizzas: Restaurant-Quality Pies to Heat and Eat No longer a mere meal of last resort, frozen pizza now brings wood-fired flavor and artisanal ingredients home. Here, our top picks, including meaty, vegetarian and gluten-free options.
2021-04-15 14:12:00 CFO Journal What CEOs, CFOs Are Saying About the Prospects of Higher Taxes Business leaders discuss President Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan and proposal to raise tax rate on companies
2021-04-15 14:11:00 World Iran Boosts Oil Exports Amid Nuclear Deal Talks Tehran is now producing more oil than at any time since May 2019, at the height of Trump administration pressure
2021-04-15 14:08:00 World Biden to Meet With South Korean President Moon Next Month North Korea likely to be high on the agenda in first face-to-face meeting between the two leaders
2021-04-15 14:03:00 Real Estate Kimco Realty to Buy Rival Weingarten Realty for About $3.9 Billion Deal values Houston-based Weingarten at 11% premium to its Wednesday closing share price
2021-04-15 13:56:00 Life & Arts The Many Minds of the Octopus The weird way that the brainpower of octos is distributed among their eight arms may have much to teach us about our own brains
2021-04-15 13:31:00 World Prince Philip’s Funeral Guest List Trimmed by Covid-19 Concerns Long-planned ceremony gets pandemic restrictions: no military procession, a small guest list, four-person choir
2021-04-15 12:44:00 Opinion Court Packing Is a Dangerous Game Even if the size of the bench remains the same, intimidation diminishes the justices’ stature.
2021-04-15 12:44:00 World Afghanistan Braces for Renewed Conflict When America Departs U.S. troop withdrawal will leave Kabul government to face Taliban forces alone, and many fear renewed civil war
2021-04-15 12:44:00 Opinion CEOs Lead America’s New Great Awakening Their political activism on behalf of voting rights will help bring about a spiritual revival.
2021-04-15 12:43:00 Markets Americans Are Spending, Not Borrowing. That’s a Problem for Banks A reopening economy won’t deliver the full potential benefit for banks as long as consumers are spending cash already in their accounts
2021-04-15 12:41:00 U.S. Almost Half of Federal Cases Against Portland Rioters Have Been Dismissed Many charged in connection with violence surrounding last year’s racial-justice protests have completed community service and won’t be tried
2021-04-15 11:49:00 Real Estate Elegant Picnics in an Instant—No Packing Required Now you can commission cushy custom al fresco events for a party of two or 250 with all the plates, blankets, cushions (and even drumsticks) you need
2021-04-15 11:37:00 Markets Delta Should Keep Faith in Good Old Network Strategy Carrier reported better-than-expected revenue in first quarter, but at the expense of profitability
2021-04-15 11:30:00 Life & Arts What Walt Whitman Knew About Democracy For the great American poet, the peculiar qualities of grass suggested a way to resolve the tension between the individual and the group.
2021-04-15 11:09:00 Tech Jeff Bezos Says Amazon Needs a Better Vision for Its Employees, Defends Work After failed Alabama unionization vote, CEO says he doesn’t take comfort from the company’s win
2021-04-15 11:03:00 Markets Sales Boom May Be More Than Fleeting Flurry If consumers keep splurging into next year, things could get complicated for investors
2021-04-15 11:02:00 World Hong Kong’s Police Debut the Goose Step as City Marches to Beijing’s Tune In events promoting China’s national security crackdown, officials issue warnings to local and foreign opponents
2021-04-15 10:57:00 Life & Arts How Dua Lipa, TikTok and Nostalgia Brought Charm Bracelets Back Actress Debi Mazar likes traditional ones, while YouTuber Emma Chamberlain prefers kitschy ceramic styles. Here, a look at the charm bracelet’s return—and what role social media and social distancing played in its comeback.
2021-04-15 10:29:00 Markets Chinese Asset Manager Suffers Bond Selloff After Delaying Results Investors send some prices to as low as 60 cents on the dollar, indicating they see high likelihood of default
2021-04-15 09:49:00 Markets Bank of America Profit Doubles After It Releases Reserves for Bad Loans First-quarter results beat analysts’ expectations, but revenue was flat
2021-04-15 09:47:00 U.S. New York Police Increase Gun Seizures, but Shootings Rise Sharp jump in gun violence occurs as number of firearms on city streets grows
2021-04-15 09:38:00 Life & Arts Where Islam and Reason Meet A medieval debate about God’s relationship to goodness can help explain today’s conflicts over religion and society in the Islamic world.
2021-04-15 09:20:00 Markets BlackRock Profit Jumps on Broader Pandemic Recovery The money manager posts profit of $1.2 billion and sees assets under management rise
2021-04-15 09:12:00 Markets Citigroup Reports Higher Earnings, Plans to Trim Consumer Businesses in Asia Bank says it would exit consumer operations in parts of Asia to focus on wealth management and other businesses
2021-04-15 09:09:00 Business Delta Reports Another Quarterly Loss but Says Travel Demand Is Rising Domestic leisure bookings are rising but many international markets remain closed
2021-04-15 09:05:00 Business Shell to Let Shareholders Vote on Shift to Cleaner Energy Oil giant seeks investor endorsement for its energy transition strategy
2021-04-15 09:01:00 Markets Coinbase, Dell, Citigroup: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today Coinbase is having a strong morning after listing on Wednesday
2021-04-15 09:00:00 Politics Census Data to Reveal Which States Lose, Gain U.S. House Seats Redistricting process based on new numbers will help determine which party controls the chamber after 2022 elections
2021-04-15 08:58:00 Business Electric-Vehicle Startup XPeng Bets on the Tech That Tesla Rejects One of three U.S.-listed Chinese EV makers, it is relying on innovation to overtake its rivals
2021-04-15 08:40:00 Politics U.S. Puts Fresh Sanctions on Russia Over Hacking, Election Interference In addition to financial penalties, U.S. expels 10 diplomats from Russian embassy
2021-04-15 08:37:00 U.S. CDC Identifies Small Group of Covid-19 Infections Among Fully Vaccinated Patients Incidence is rare, occurring in only 0.008% of cases and in line with expectations
2021-04-15 08:00:00 World China Figures Out How to Produce Must-See Propaganda TV ‘Minning Town’ is part of a sophisticated turn in Communist Party messaging; an international version, with fewer meeting scenes, is in the works
2021-04-15 08:00:00 CFO Journal CFO Pay Rises as Their Companies Navigate Coronavirus Pandemic Median pay for finance chiefs at the largest U.S. companies rose 7% during the 2020 fiscal year, largely driven by stock-based compensation
2021-04-15 08:00:00 Real Estate Texas Tells Judges They Can Ignore Federal Eviction Ban Some courts begin approving evictions after state stops enforcing U.S. moratorium, confusing landlords and putting tenants at risk
2021-04-15 08:00:00 Business Cable Companies Emerge as Force in Cellphone Business More than five million Americans have turned to cable providers for cellphone service, attracted by lower prices and ease of adjusting plans
2021-04-15 07:57:00 Business TSMC Sets Up for Soaring Chip Demand World’s largest contract chip maker to increase investment budget, raise revenue growth forecast
2021-04-15 07:51:00 Politics Asian-American Lawmakers to Press Biden on Hate Crimes, Cabinet Representation The Senate recently advanced a bill to expedite the Justice Department’s review of hate crimes related to the coronavirus pandemic.
2021-04-15 07:51:00 Economy Turkey’s Central Bank Holds Rates After Erdogan’s Latest Shuffle Previous central bank governor was fired for raising rates, going against the president’s desire to stimulate growth
2021-04-15 07:45:00 Business UnitedHealth Posts Stronger Quarterly Results as Membership Grows The health-insurance company expects the pandemic to continue to weigh on the industry this year
2021-04-15 07:22:00 World Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Afghanistan on Unannounced Visit Trip by top Biden envoy comes as U.S. plans military exit
2021-04-15 07:03:00 Markets Investors Can’t Afford the Zillow Dream Online real-estate companies have thrived, but less so their stocks recently
2021-04-15 07:00:00 Homes U.S. Housing Market Is Nearly 4 Million Homes Short of Buyer Demand Freddie Mac says gap has widened significantly in past two years as builders struggle to keep up
2021-04-15 06:57:00 Life & Arts The Santa Fe of My Childhood: Remembering a Time Before Covid Novelist Kirstin Valdez Quade spent years visiting the city’s museums, close to her beloved grandmother’s house. Now that Covid has devastated her family and kept her away, she longs for those treasure-filled sanctuaries.
2021-04-15 06:46:00 Business Merck, Partner Halt Covid-19 Treatment Trial for Hospitalized Patients Companies to advance a separate study testing their oral antiviral drug in treating outpatients who are at high risk of complications
2021-04-15 06:35:00 Markets Why Barclays Is One of the Year’s Best-Performing Bank Stocks Activity in the U.K. lender’s investment banking arm is spurring the recovery, a vindication for Chief Executive Jes Staley
2021-04-15 06:28:00 World Reviving the Iran Nuclear Deal: What to Expect From the Talks and What Is at Stake Indirect U.S.-Iran talks mark a potential thaw in relations. But any agreement on the 2015 pact faces a long and rocky road.
2021-04-15 06:02:00 CIO Journal E-Commerce Company Signifyd Raises $205 Million in Investor Funding Company says demand for its AI-based fraud protection software increased as e-commerce surged during the pandemic
2021-04-15 06:00:00 Markets JPMorgan Unveils Goal to Support $2.5 Trillion in Climate-Friendly Investments Climate activists have for years called on the bank to use its lending power to protect the environment
2021-04-15 05:40:00 World German Court Kills Berlin’s Radical Push to Limit Gentrification City’s rent cap declared unconstitutional in highly anticipated decision over tool to stop surging house prices
2021-04-15 05:30:00 Economy Unemployment Claims Likely Fell as Covid-19 Recovery Picked Up Applications for jobless benefits have declined this year but are still historically high
2021-04-15 05:30:00 NATO Wargame Examines Cyber Risk to Financial System Financial industry helped plan scenarios in which widespread disruption would hit banks and other firms
2021-04-15 05:30:00 Markets Ant and Others Embraced Crowdfunded Medical Coverage, but Now It’s Under Beijing’s Microscope Chinese regulators have warned that the industry has the characteristics of commercial insurance without being supervised as such
2021-04-15 05:30:00 Economy Covid-19 Stimulus, Vaccinations Likely Spurred March Retail Sales Surge Economists expect government aid, eased business restrictions and warmer weather contributed to jump in spending
2021-04-15 05:24:00 Markets Stock Futures Rise Ahead of Another Volley of Earnings S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures gained ahead of results from PepsiCo and Delta Air Lines
2021-04-15 04:42:00 Markets The Dollar’s Sliding Share in Global Currency Reserves is a Red Herring The greenback is at a 25-year low in official currency reserves, a figure that understates the currency’s importance in a number of ways
2021-04-15 01:56:00 Politics House Panel Advances Bill to Study Slavery Reparations Legislation calls for creating a commission to study the history of slavery and discrimination against Black Americans
2021-04-15 01:30:00 CMO Today Publicis Reports a Return to Organic Revenue Growth Ad conglomerate beat revenue expectations, citing growth in the U.S. and Asia, as well as increased demand for digital services
2021-04-14 23:25:00 U.S. U.S. to Sanction Russia, Expel Diplomats Over Alleged Election Interference, Hacking
2021-04-14 21:12:00 CFO Journal Dell CFO Looks to Use VMware Proceeds to Bring Down Debt Lower debt levels could over time boost the company’s credit rating, Tom Sweet says
2021-04-14 20:45:00 Politics Democratic Lawmakers to Present Plan to Expand Supreme Court Initiative runs counter to Biden administration’s commission on overhauling court after three conservative Trump appointments
2021-04-14 19:23:00 U.S. Andrew Cuomo Impeachment Hotline Gets Over 100 Messages Investigators sort through calls and emails as the governor faces harassment and other allegations
2021-04-14 19:17:00 U.S. What We Know About the Police Shooting of Daunte Wright in Minneapolis Suburb Officer kills 20-year-old Black man during traffic stop; police official says officer had intended to use her Taser
2021-04-14 18:55:00 Opinion Down With Big Business, Again Corporate CEOs can’t be counted on to defend free markets.
2021-04-14 18:53:00 Opinion Biden’s Strange New ‘Bipartisanship’ In the new White House definition, no GOP votes in Congress are required.
2021-04-14 18:52:00 Opinion A Climate Back Door to Watch Keep a skeptical eye on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
2021-04-14 18:50:00 Opinion Kamala’s Theory of Everything The VP identifies Central America’s big problem: climate.
2021-04-14 18:33:00 Tech Dell Plans Spinoff of $52 Billion Stake in VMware PC maker intends to use net proceeds from the deal to pay down debt
2021-04-14 18:02:00 Books ‘Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid’ Review: Mr. & Mrs. Mayhem He was dapper, ruthless, fearless. She was the flapper’s flapper. Together they went on a crime spree that thrilled America’s Jazz Age.
2021-04-14 17:57:00 Opinion Why Biden Won’t Build Bridges to the GOP A compromise on the American Jobs Plan would put Democrats in a dangerous spot.
2021-04-14 17:57:00 Opinion D.C. Statehood and the Insurrection Threat From the Civil War to Portland 2020, history warns against the plan to split the capital.
2021-04-14 17:56:00 World Drone Attacks Iraq Airport Housing U.S. Troops One building damaged, no casualties reported in attack on Erbil airport
2021-04-14 17:56:00 Opinion Japan’s Path to Growth and Stability in the Pacific We’re tackling problems caused by climate change and an aging population.
2021-04-14 17:56:00 Opinion Gender Gap on the Golf Course Colored balls improve play, but male players are slow to shift from the traditional white.
2021-04-14 17:48:00 Opinion When CEOs Zoom for Democrats Last weekend, some 100 corporation leaders did a Davos by laptop to vilify Republicans and validate their status.
2021-04-14 17:43:00 World Biden Says It Is Time for U.S. Troops to Leave Afghanistan Announcing a withdrawal by Sept. 11, president says U.S. can’t go on ‘expecting a different result’
2021-04-14 17:29:00 Pro Bankruptcy After Bernie Madoff’s Death, Efforts To Recover Ill-gotten Funds Go On A federal trustee has recovered more than $14 billion from the fraud, but legal efforts are expected to play out for years
2021-04-14 17:25:00 Markets Coinbase: Stock Price, Valuation and Everything Else You Need to Know The largest exchange for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies became the first major crypto company to go public
2021-04-14 17:24:00 Markets Coinbase Fetches $85 Billion Valuation in Market Debut Cryptocurrency exchange is first major bitcoin-focused company to test U.S. public market
2021-04-14 17:20:00 CFO Journal FASB Gives Certain Companies an Accounting Break on Lease-Contract Losses Businesses leasing out assets were required to record a loss at the start of certain contracts even if they expected the arrangement to be profitable
2021-04-14 17:17:00 Politics Capitol Police Overlooked Threats Before Jan. 6 Riot, Inspector General Report Finds Department’s internal watchdog found Capitol Police had been warned of potential for violence and that lawmakers were targets
2021-04-14 17:06:00 Politics Social Media Is ‘Key Amplifier’ of Domestic Violent Extremism, Wray Says FBI director’s warning comes amid rise in homegrown attacks
2021-04-14 16:50:00 U.S. No Criminal Charges for Officer Who Shot Capitol Rioter Ashli Babbitt Justice Department says there is no evidence indicating Capitol Police officer wasn’t acting in defense of himself or lawmakers
2021-04-14 16:29:00 Logistics Report Ship Logjam at California Ports is Easing After March Import Deluge Container imports into Los Angeles and Long Beach nearly doubled from last year, were up 65% from 2019
2021-04-14 16:28:00 Markets Wall Street Businesses Power Goldman, JPMorgan to Record Earnings Madcap markets and a blank-check boom kept bankers busy in the first quarter, and more deals are waiting in the wings
2021-04-14 16:25:00 Business American-JetBlue Alliance Draws Increased Scrutiny From Justice Department Antitrust officials are concerned the partnership could diminish competition at key airports, while the airlines say pact is good for travelers
2021-04-14 16:21:00 Life & Arts Top Colleges in the South for Diversity The University of Houston-Downtown heads this list from the WSJ/THE College Rankings
2021-04-14 16:18:00 Markets Bernie Madoff Dead at 82; Disgraced Investor Ran Biggest Ponzi Scheme in History The former trader and Nasdaq chairman was a Wall Street fixture for decades; Madoff was serving a 150-year prison sentence
2021-04-14 16:14:00 New York Fed’s Williams Unsure When Federal Reserve Will Pull Back Policy Aid ‘We’re still in a place where unemployment is very high and the economy still has a long ways to go’
2021-04-14 15:59:00 Deals Thermo Fisher Nears Deal to Buy PPD for More Than $15 Billion Purchase of drug-testing firm could be finalized this week
2021-04-14 15:58:00 CFO Journal Former Virgin Galactic CFO Joins Satellite Observation Startup Jon Campagna is the first finance chief at Capella Space, a San Francisco-based satellite observation company
2021-04-14 15:53:00 Opinion Kamala Harris and American Exceptionalism Does the White House understand why people want to migrate to the U.S.?
2021-04-14 15:47:00 Art Review ‘Knotted, Torn, Scattered: Sculpture After Abstract Expressionism’ Review: Mutable Materials The Guggenheim exhibits works by Robert Morris, Richard Serra, Lynda Benglis and others that play with physical properties.
2021-04-14 15:46:00 Arts Digital Artist Pak Sells NFT Works for $17 Million at Sotheby’s Three-day auction featured works that show a single pixel, can be destroyed or switched by their owners; ‘Pak is our Picasso’
2021-04-14 15:44:00 Television Review ‘Beethoven in Beijing’ Review: A Classical Revolution An installment of ‘Great Performances’ on PBS examines how the Philadelphia Orchestra’s unprecedented 1973 Chinese concert tour shifted the course of classical music around the world.
2021-04-14 15:41:00 Art Review ‘Alice Neel: People Come First’ Review: Portraits Without Filters A Met retrospective conveys the painter’s powerful ability to capture the humanity of her subjects without romanticizing them.
2021-04-14 15:37:00 Economy Central Bank Will Begin Reducing Bond Purchases ‘Well Before’ Raising Interest Rates, Powell Says Fed chairman notes that most central-bank officials see rates remaining near zero through 2023
2021-04-14 15:16:00 Politics China Rivalry Spurs Republicans and Democrats to Align on Tech Spending National Science Foundation would get $100 billion to spend on research under ‘Endless Frontier Act’
2021-04-14 15:00:00 Screen Time What to Watch: 9 Movies and Shows to Stream This Week A top college basketball coach trains a high-school women’s team in ‘Big Shot;’ Kate Winslet is a small-town detective in ‘Mare of Easttown’
2021-04-14 14:58:00 A Closer Look Selections from ‘Watercress’ by Andrea Wang, illustrated by Jason Chin
2021-04-14 13:55:00 Politics Biden Administration Proposes Reversing Ban on Federal Funds for Clinics That Refer Abortions Trump-era rule led Planned Parenthood to withdraw from the program known as Title X
2021-04-14 13:38:00 World U.S. Plan to Withdraw Troops From Afghanistan Hampers Peace Talks With Taliban Biden’s decision to pull out by Sept. 11 takes leverage away from the Kabul government
2021-04-14 13:12:00 Politics Rep. Kevin Brady Won’t Run for Re-Election in 2022 The Texan, currently the top Republican on the Ways and Means Committee, helped shape the 2017 tax overhaul
2021-04-14 13:06:00 Television In ‘Wahl Street,’ the Business Struggle Mark Wahlberg Wants You to See How did the star fare as an entrepreneur during the pandemic? A new docuseries on HBO Max includes workouts at 2:30 a.m. and big dreams leveled by lockdowns
2021-04-14 12:39:00 Politics Gary Gensler Is Confirmed as SEC Chairman by Senate Veteran regulator, bank executive is expected to take a tougher approach to policing Wall Street
2021-04-14 12:25:00 Markets Bed Bath & Beyond’s Improvement Project Is Far From Finished The selloff in Bed Bath & Beyond looks overdone considering its unsurprising results, but the retailer still has a way to go to win back confidence
2021-04-14 12:19:00 A Closer Look Selections from ‘Keeping the City Going’ by Brian Floca
2021-04-14 12:09:00 Markets Wall Street Banks Do More With Less JPMorgan, Goldman posted huge returns in their Wall Street arms, suggesting investors might be undervaluing that part of their business
2021-04-14 12:07:00 Opinion Censorship Competition Heats Up Can upstart Bookshop.com outdo mighty Amazon in suppressing ideas that may cause discomfort?
2021-04-14 12:06:00 Opinion A Christian for Biden, I’m Feeling Betrayed He promised to reverse Trump’s restrictive refugee policy. He could do it with a signature but hasn’t.
2021-04-14 11:50:00 Tech Peter Frampton on How He Recorded David Bowie and Radiohead Covers The rock legend behind the soon-to-be-released album “Frampton Forgets the Words” shares the best tools in his home studio and the one guitar he can’t live without
2021-04-14 11:33:00 Business Kohl’s to Add Directors in Deal With Activist Investors Retailer says three retail veterans will join board, followed by the departure of two incumbents
2021-04-14 11:10:00 Markets When Are Taxes Due? May 17 Is Tax Deadline Day for 2020 Taxes The mid-May date is the last day for individuals to file and pay taxes
2021-04-14 10:54:00 Economy J&J Covid-19 Vaccine Pause Poses Another Test for Balancing Pandemic Risks The move could pit regulators’ caution and need for trust against the urgency of preventing infection and death now
2021-04-14 10:52:00 Life & Arts Baby Boomers, Isolated During Covid, Rushed to Move Close to Their Kids Rather than living alone, away from children and grandchildren, they moved in with them, or nearby. And now they’re planning to stay.
2021-04-14 10:52:00 Politics White House Expands List of Potential FDA Commissioners Asian-American and Black doctors on shortlist of nominees to lead agency
2021-04-14 10:49:00 Life & Arts Are $219 Running Shorts Worth It? Some Marathoners Say Yes Why lofty athletic brands like District Vision, Tracksmith and Satisfy are banking on designer gear that’s high-performance and high-priced
2021-04-14 10:34:00 Arts Superfans’ Message to Taylor Swift, BTS and Other Music Superstars: Enough With the Deluxe Albums and Pricey Merch Stars are churning out more merch and collectibles than ever before, but some fans are starting to question how much is too much
2021-04-14 10:01:00 Opinion The Jones Act and the Fate of U.S. Shipping We can’t afford not to reform the Jones Act.
2021-04-14 10:01:00 Opinion Landfills, Localism and the Value of the Right to Repair There is no one local who can fix my printer because there are no parts available from the manufacturer to replace the defective one. I’m not OK with that.
2021-04-14 10:00:00 World Korean Entrepreneur Bet Big on Spicy Ramen Noodles Shin Choon-ho, who has died at 90, built Nongshim into global supplier
2021-04-14 09:58:00 Opinion The Golden Rule Can’t Abide Discrimination Strong religious convictions are intertwined with support for protections for LGBTQ Americans.
2021-04-14 09:56:00 Life & Arts Tokyo’s Anti-Olympic Movement Ask: Why Haven’t the Games Been Canceled? The Japanese public remains opposed to the Tokyo Olympics as coronavirus cases surge across the country
2021-04-14 09:30:00 U.S. Protesters Clash With Police Over Daunte Wright’s Death for Third Night Pressure is mounting on authorities to charge former officer Kim Potter in Wright’s death
2021-04-14 09:27:00 Life & Arts How to Buy a Castle for $60—Some Strings Attached From Scotland to New Hampshire, historic estates are relying on donations to keep the chandeliers lit. In exchange, donors get regal perks—including overnight stays—but they might have to help restore the ancient pile, too.
2021-04-14 09:21:00 Markets Wells Fargo Earnings Jump as Economy Bounces Back San Francisco-based lender posts first-quarter profit of $4.74 billion, up from $653 million a year earlier
2021-04-14 09:20:00 U.S. Asian-American Parents Sue New York City Schools Alleging Harassment, Racial Bias Activists say Education Department’s diversity agenda often overlooks Asian students
2021-04-14 09:16:00 Business American Airlines Plans for Expanded Summer Flying Schedule Carriers say flights are fuller and expect rising demand as more people are vaccinated
2021-04-14 09:10:00 Business Coding to Hide Health Prices from Web Searches Is Barred by Regulators The guidance regarding insurers’ required posting of healthcare prices came after The Wall Street Journal revealed hospitals used such coding on their price pages
2021-04-14 09:04:00 Markets Coinbase, JPMorgan Chase, ConocoPhillips: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today Cryptocurrencies including bitcoin and ether jumped ahead of Coinbase Global’s trading debut
2021-04-14 08:57:00 Life & Arts Wait, Where Did All the Rental Cars Go? Hertz, Avis and Enterprise sold enough of their fleets during the pandemic to create a shortage now that demand is picking up ahead of the summer travel season
2021-04-14 08:45:00 Business Hundreds of Companies, CEOs Band Together on Voting Access Supporters include Amazon, Netflix, General Motors, Larry Fink, Warren Buffett, Michael Bloomberg
2021-04-14 08:44:00 Markets Luxury Brands Are Helped By a Lack of Other Spending Options Louis Vuitton’s owner LVMH grew sales by an impressive 30% in the first quarter of this year. But designer brands’ share of consumer spending is abnormally high.
2021-04-14 08:42:00 Markets HSBC to Move Top Bankers to Hong Kong as Asia Focus Sharpens The shift comes as the bank has been caught up in the geopolitical tension between China and the West
2021-04-14 08:41:00 World European Union Orders Extra BioNTech-Pfizer Vaccines Amid J&J Suspension Johnson & Johnson is delaying the rollout of its vaccine in Europe due to concerns about possible blood clot links
2021-04-14 08:26:00 Markets Goldman Sachs Profit Rises Sharply on Strong Trading, Deal Making Bank’s first-quarter results benefit from turbocharged market and economic recovery
2021-04-14 08:14:00 Business China’s Tech Giants Vow, in Unison, to Play by Regulator’s Rules Days after a record fine against Alibaba, China’s tech companies have pledged to adhere to antimonopoly regulations
2021-04-14 08:12:00 World Biden’s China Rhetoric Makes Japan Uneasy Prime Minister Suga is first foreign leader to meet president in person and brings less confrontational tone on Beijing
2021-04-14 08:00:00 Logistics Report Trucking Companies Boost Pay in Hunt for Drivers as Demand Surges Consumer spending and tight capacity are driving up prices in jammed U.S. domestic shipping markets
2021-04-14 08:00:00 Life & Arts Band Practice in the Age of Covid-19 With virus still spreading and new variants on the march, school band practice needs a makeover
2021-04-14 07:57:00 Markets JPMorgan Profit Soars After Bank Releases Reserves for Bad Loans The bank a year ago set aside billions of dollars for potentially bad loans to prepare for the coronavirus pandemic
2021-04-14 07:55:00 Business Luxury Shares Soar as LVMH Sales Rebound Shoppers in China and the U.S. fuel strong demand for luxury goods
2021-04-14 07:46:00 Markets Bitcoin and Dogecoin Prices Soar to Records Ahead of Coinbase Listing Increased interest from retail traders due to the listing likely powered the cryptocurrency rally, analysts said
2021-04-14 07:25:00 World U.S. Seeks Coordination With Allies on Afghanistan Withdrawal Blinken, Austin consult with fellow NATO members as Biden readies announcement on Sept. 11 target date
2021-04-14 07:11:00 Markets Grab Ahold of Grab Holdings’ $40 billion SPAC Deal Southeast Asia hasn’t been on many tech investors’ radar until relatively recently. A massive new deal for internet giant Grab will change that.
2021-04-14 07:09:00 Markets China’s Bad-Bank Panic Unveils the Man Behind the Curtain State support is a crucial linchpin of the Chinese financial system. Things can unravel quickly when investors no longer believe it is there.
2021-04-14 07:03:00 Markets Big Oil’s Influence Shrinks as Tax Perks Face Axe in Biden Plan Cutting the fossil-fuel industry’s tax perks might not dramatically affect hydrocarbon output or the environment, but it will mark the end of an era for Big Oil
2021-04-14 07:00:00 World Italy’s Covid-19 Vaccinations Bypassed the Elderly, and More Are Dying With a death rate outpacing much of Europe, Italy shifts focus to get vaccines to older people
2021-04-14 06:41:00 Markets Barclays Stock Tumbles in Mini Flash Crash Before Quick Rebound 10% plunge in one of the U.K.’s most prominent stocks triggered a trading halt
2021-04-14 06:30:00 Markets Apple Could Use a Spring Fling Stock has been big tech’s worst performer this year as concerns about cycle peak, chip shortage and regulations have grown
2021-04-14 06:25:00 World Biden Brushes Off China’s Complaints, Sends First Delegation to Taiwan A former senator and two former U.S. deputy secretaries of state will meet Taiwan’s president as China steps up military intimidation
2021-04-14 06:00:00 Deals Silver Lake Invests About $800 Million for Minority Stake in Abu Dhabi’s G42 Private-equity firm will be technology company’s first Western investor
2021-04-14 05:30:00 Markets Coinbase CEO to Take Crypto Exchange Public After Bringing Bitcoin to Masses As trading starts Wednesday in the company’s shares, Brian Armstrong works to make bitcoin as easy as email
2021-04-14 05:30:00 Business Federal Advisory Panel to Meet Wednesday on J&J Vaccine CDC panel is expected to review data gathered on six cases of severe blood clots following Covid-19 vaccinations
2021-04-14 05:30:00 Politics States Were Told They Can’t Use U.S. Covid-19 Aid to Cut Taxes. They Sued. Republican lawmakers, attorneys general say provision under $1.9 trillion stimulus bill is vague and unconstitutional
2021-04-14 05:30:00 Politics Amazon Vote Won’t Deter Union Goals, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh Says Outcome doesn’t change Biden administration’s desire to increase union jobs in the U.S., cabinet official says
2021-04-14 05:26:00 Markets Turkey’s New Central Bank Governor Has to Balance Economy With Politics Foreign investors say the new central bank governor may need to risk his boss’s ire by raising rates to fix the beleaguered economy and curb soaring inflation
2021-04-14 05:00:00 Experience Report Startups Offer New Pregnancy Tests With Privacy and Calm in Mind Among the new offerings are biodegradable, flushable tests, and one with animated online instructions that will include meditation and sudoku to allay anxiety
2021-04-14 04:00:00 Markets Oil Demand Is Recovering Despite Vaccination Hiccups, IEA Says Agency raises its annual forecast for global oil demand in 2021
2021-04-14 03:47:00 Markets Stock Futures Wobble After S&P 500 Hits Record S&P 500 is set to grind higher after hitting its 21st record close of the year as investors awaited a string of bank earnings
2021-04-13 23:51:00 Business Toshiba CEO Nobuaki Kurumatani Steps Down Under Pressure From Shareholders A week earlier, the company said it had received an acquisition offer from private-equity firm CVC Capital Partners
2021-04-13 23:16:00 U.S. Kim Potter Mistook Her Gun for a Taser, Police Say: How Often Does That Happen? Researchers and law-enforcement veterans say it is difficult to confuse the two weapons
2021-04-13 23:03:00 U.S. Kenosha Police Officer Who Shot Jacob Blake Returned to Duty Officer Rusten Sheskey wasn’t charged in the August 2020 incident that left Blake paralyzed from the waist down
2021-04-13 22:55:00 Politics Pelosi Invites Biden to Address Joint Session of Congress on April 28 Date is two days before president’s 100th day in office
2021-04-13 19:41:00 Business Mexico’s Televisa to Merge Content Business With Univision The tie-up aims to expand streaming video services in underserved Spanish-speaking markets with SoftBank as an investor
2021-04-13 19:31:00 Pro Bankruptcy Bankrupt Zohar Funds Can’t Block Lynn Tilton’s Deal for Auto Supplier A bankruptcy judge approved the sale of Global Automotive Systems to the turnaround manager, overruling the Zohar funds she created
2021-04-13 19:12:00 Opinion In Alabama, Black Amazon Workers Vote Their Economic Interest The failed unionization push highlights growing disillusionment with progressive priorities.
2021-04-13 19:08:00 Books ‘The Scout Mindset’ Review: How to ‘Update’ Beliefs Admitting our beliefs are false can feel like a failure, a sign of weakness. Instead, we should look at changing our mind as an ‘update.’
2021-04-13 19:07:00 Opinion Democracy Promotion in a World Growing More Dangerous A new report details what Biden can do to champion free society at home and abroad.
2021-04-13 19:07:00 Opinion Climate Media vs. Climate Science The good news is that scientists themselves have started to correct the record.
2021-04-13 19:06:00 Opinion Pakistan’s Religious Purity Test Prominent economist Atif Rehman Mian was sacked as the wrong kind of Muslim.
2021-04-13 19:03:00 Opinion Biden’s Afghan Exit Withdrawing all U.S. troops risks the return of al Qaeda and ISIS.
2021-04-13 18:54:00 Opinion The J&J Covid Vaccine Pause The issue is how best to address public anxiety over rare blood clots.
2021-04-13 18:53:00 Business Stitch Fix CEO, Among Youngest Female Founders to Go IPO, Moves to Executive Chair Katrina Lake will be succeeded as chief executive by Stitch Fix President Elizabeth Spaulding
2021-04-13 18:49:00 Opinion The Shooting of Daunte Wright The rush to judgment doesn’t serve the cause of justice.
2021-04-13 18:47:00 Opinion Back to Iran’s Nuclear Future Israel defends itself as Biden courts Tehran to return to the flawed Obama deal.
2021-04-13 18:46:00 World John Kerry Says U.S. Will Hold China to Account on Climate Pledges Ahead of trip to Shanghai, climate envoy says U.S. could use satellites to monitor greenhouse-gas emissions globally
2021-04-13 18:35:00 Politics New York Democrats Push Repeal of Cap on Local Tax Deductions Bid to eliminate Trump-era tax change factors into talks over Biden’s infrastructure plan
2021-04-13 18:32:00 Politics Pollsters Say They Undercounted Republicans, Trump Supporters in 2020 Five Democratic groups and Pew say they may need to return to old-school polling techniques like knocking on doors
2021-04-13 18:31:00 Opinion Is There Virtue in CEOs’ Signaling? Students debate whether companies should take political stances.
2021-04-13 17:55:00 World Iran Says It Will Enrich Uranium to 60%, in Effort to Strengthen Hand in Nuclear Talks The move would bring Tehran one step closer to weapons-grade fuel and comes after attack on Natanz facility blamed on Israel
2021-04-13 17:50:00 CFO Journal Companies Merging With SPACs Face Challenges Around Valuations, Controls CFOs have to navigate accounting and reporting issues around SPAC deals as regulators loom
2021-04-13 17:46:00 Markets Nasdaq Sets Reference Price for Coinbase Listing at $250 The cryptocurrency exchange would have valuation of about $65 billion
2021-04-13 17:45:00 Politics U.S. Troops to Leave Afghanistan by Sept. 11 President Biden sets deadline for withdrawal to occur two decades after the 2001 terrorist attacks
2021-04-13 17:44:00 A Closer Look ‘There Is a Rainbow’ by Theresa Trinder, illustrated by Grant Snider
2021-04-13 17:38:00 Politics U.S. Chamber Urges Lawmakers to Oppose Democratic-Backed Voting Bill Chamber objects to proposed For the People Act’s curbs on business political activity, saying voting changes should be bipartisan
2021-04-13 17:29:00 Television Review ‘Spy City’ Review: Distrust in a Divided Berlin In an engrossing Cold War drama on AMC+, Dominic Cooper stars as an intelligence agent tasked with exposing a leaker within British Sector headquarters.
2021-04-13 17:27:00 U.S. Federal Appeals Court Upholds Ohio’s Down Syndrome Abortion Law Ohio law prohibits doctors from performing an abortion once a patient reveals she is motivated by fears the fetus has Down syndrome
2021-04-13 17:24:00 Music Review ‘Uneasy’ by Vijay Iyer Review: An Assured Trio Takes On Hard Times A collaboration between the pianist, drummer Tyshawn Sorey and bassist Linda May Han Oh—all composers in their own right—results in a subtle yet powerful album.
2021-04-13 17:23:00 World Peru Election Pits Fan of Castro Against Authoritarian Ex-Leader’s Daughter Voters face a choice between a far-left activist who pledges to nationalize foreign mining assets and a candidate who has lost two prior presidential bids
2021-04-13 17:19:00 U.S. Police Chief, Officer Resign in Wake of Daunte Wright Killing Minneapolis suburb sees second night of protests and looting after police say officer accidentally shot and killed Wright
2021-04-13 17:12:00 Opinion Is Life at NBC News Imitating The Onion? TV network’s discovery may indicate that America is not full of racists.
2021-04-13 15:52:00 Business CBS News Chief Zirinsky Nears Deal to Return to Production Roots Longtime CBS News producer expected to sign production partnership with parent ViacomCBS
2021-04-13 15:51:00 CIO Journal Ford Retools Headquarters for Hybrid Work Awaiting returning staff: A check-in app, ambient sensors to alert managers of crowded workspaces and videoconferencing carts
2021-04-13 15:27:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Walmart Compliance Chief to Depart Daniel Trujillo, the company’s chief ethics and compliance officer, will leave Friday, Walmart says
2021-04-13 15:24:00 Tech Apple Schedules April 20 Event New iPads are expected to be among product unveilings
2021-04-13 15:16:00 Logistics Report Ever Given Customers Face New Payments to Get Shipments Moving Thousands of containers of goods are tied up in legal claims and centuries-old maritime principles requiring owners to post millions of dollars to share rescue costs
2021-04-13 15:13:00 U.S. IRS Chief Says $1 Trillion in Taxes May Go Uncollected Each Year Charles Rettig tells lawmakers more resources are needed to detect fraud, errors
2021-04-13 15:02:00 Business Covid-19 Vaccine Issues Present New Challenge for J&J A potential link between its Covid-19 vaccine and rare blood clots is the latest issue for a storied name in healthcare
2021-04-13 14:36:00 World Iran’s Nuclear Program: How Close Is Tehran to Developing Nuclear Weapons? Iranian breaches of the 2015 nuclear deal raise fears that the country is paving the way to start work on nuclear weapons, raising pressure on President Biden
2021-04-13 14:27:00 U.S. Biden, Lawmakers Pay Tribute to Slain Capitol Hill Officer ‘Billy’ Evans Officer died after being struck by car driven by man attempting to enter Capitol grounds
2021-04-13 13:57:00 World Covid-19 Variants Stress Canadian Hospitals Hospitals in Ontario cancel surgeries, transfer patients to deal with surge
2021-04-13 13:14:00 Tech ‘Fortnite’ Maker Epic Games Valued at Nearly $29 Billion in Funding Round Videogame company raises $1 billion from new and existing investors including Sony Group
2021-04-13 13:01:00 Politics China to Continue Push for Global Power, Press Taiwan for Reunification, U.S. Report Says Beijing also is seeking to at least double its nuclear-weapons stockpile during the next decade
2021-04-13 12:43:00 U.S. Chauvin Defense Begins: What His Lawyers Will Try to Do Eric Nelson calls witnesses to raise doubts about former Minneapolis police officer’s guilt in death of Black man
2021-04-13 12:28:00 Whats News World Wide What’s News: World-Wide
2021-04-13 12:26:00 Tech Facebook Expands Oversight Board’s Scope to Hear Removal Requests Move broadens nearly 20-member panel’s purview as decision on former President Trump’s personal account looms
2021-04-13 12:17:00 Business Fake Covid-19 Certificates Hit Airlines, Which Now Have To Police Them Test results, often required to fly across borders, can be easily manipulated
2021-04-13 12:06:00 Opinion Masks for Children, Muzzles for Covid-19 News In the guise of combating ‘misinformation,’ YouTube again censors scientific debate over pandemic policy.
2021-04-13 12:05:00 Opinion What to Look For at Congress’s Big Intelligence Gathering Testimony will shed light on Biden’s approach to Russia, China, terrorism and proliferation.
2021-04-13 12:04:00 Life & Arts The Miraculous Measurement of the Muon New discoveries about an elementary particle could lead to a ‘gold rush’ of new physics.
2021-04-13 10:25:00 Markets Inflation From a Year Ago Isn’t What Matters Right Now The jump in consumer prices from last year’s depressed levels won’t register with most people, but that doesn’t mean concern over prices is going away
2021-04-13 10:23:00 World U.S. Climate Envoy to Arrive in Shanghai for Meeting With Chinese Counterpart John Kerry and Xie Zhenhua to discuss climate matters as well as how to support developing countries pursuing low-emissions economic growth
2021-04-13 10:21:00 Opinion Permissive Libel Law Lets Democracy Down Outright lies don’t further public debate, and vigorous debate is what the Supreme Court thought it was protecting.
2021-04-13 10:17:00 Opinion Does Georgia or Baseball Get the Big Error? The game of baseball will suffer immensely from the turnoff of fans to this overtly political decision.
2021-04-13 10:13:00 Opinion NPR Correspondent Defends His Reporting The record of sharply reduced refugee admissions over President Trump’s entire term is beyond dispute.
2021-04-13 10:09:00 Markets No Need for Panic Over J&J Covid-19 Vaccine Pause U.S. pause in rollout after blood-clot cases should boost confidence in the safety of Covid-19 vaccines, not erode it
2021-04-13 10:00:00 Life & Arts Spring Clean Your Self-Care Routine Overhaul the way you take breaks, meditate and dress for a new-season boost
2021-04-13 09:58:00 Tech Microsoft’s Nuance Gambit Shows Healthcare Is Shaping Up as Next Tech Battleground Microsoft is spending $16 billion to kick-start growth in the next big thing for tech: healthcare
2021-04-13 09:52:00 World NATO Urges Russia to Halt Military Buildup on Ukraine’s Borders Alliance condemns presence of tens of thousands of troops, faces delicate balance in relations with Kremlin
2021-04-13 09:47:00 U.S. U.S. Seeks to Pause J&J Covid-19 Vaccine Use After Rare Blood-Clot Cases Drugmaker to delay European shot rollout as FDA and CDC review data involving six reported cases of clotting
2021-04-13 09:47:00 Pro Bankruptcy Boy Scouts, Pressured to End Bankruptcy, Explore Leaving Local Councils Behind The organization is proposing an alternate chapter 11 plan as a backup in case settlements with abuse victims and local councils don’t emerge
2021-04-13 09:45:00 Life & Arts The Future of High Heels Looks Wobbly—at Least for Now Some women who ditched their high-heeled shoes during the pandemic have no plans to go back. Others are dipping their toes in slowly
2021-04-13 09:43:00 World Egypt Seizes Ever Given Ship in Suez Canal, Demands Compensation Pressure grows on Ever Given’s Japanese owner to negotiate a settlement of roughly $1 billion for damage to the canal and lost business
2021-04-13 09:37:00 Markets China’s Economy Is Still Dependent on Housing and Exports Despite Beijing’s rhetorical emphasis on new industries and self-reliance, housing and exports continue to drive China’s recovery
2021-04-13 09:23:00 Markets Credit Suisse Identifies $2.3 Billion at Risk in Greensill Funds Disclosure increases clarity over the scale of potential losses in the supply-chain finance funds
2021-04-13 09:20:00 Business Jack Ma’s Ant Group Will End Some Practices That Helped Fuel Its Growth Beijing wants the financial-technology giant to unwind arrangements that gave it an advantage over rivals and banks
2021-04-13 09:02:00 Life & Arts How Journaling Can Help You Live Your Best Life Just 10 minutes a day of writing can be effective, says an author and life coach who suggests: ‘make yourself the hero in a story of your own making’
2021-04-13 09:00:00 Markets NovoCure, Fastenal, FedEx, Johnson & Johnson: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today Futures suggested technology stocks could post gains at the open
2021-04-13 08:11:00 World Afghan Peace Talks: The Latest on the Historic Negotiations Afghanistan’s government and the Taliban met in historic, U.S.-brokered talks
2021-04-13 08:00:00 Real Estate Grocery Owners May Struggle to Match Last Year’s Success As more Americans get vaccinated, they are showing a desire to eat out again and may spend less money filling up their cupboards and refrigerators
2021-04-13 08:00:00 Markets OPEC Sees Oil Demand Boosted by Stimulus and Vaccine Programs Cartel regained control of oil prices in March, after they crashed last spring
2021-04-13 07:41:00 Markets Oil Majors Face Tough Choices Even With Higher Prices Financial pressures have eased, but companies still have few strategic options as they eye a lower-carbon future
2021-04-13 07:41:00 World Myanmar’s Military Has Many Enemies. Protesters Are Asking for Their Help. After weeks of killings by security forces, a small contingent is turning to the country’s rebel groups that have long battled the army
2021-04-13 07:03:00 Markets Uber and Lyft Need a Sharper Turn Investors should consider that Uber and Lyft’s new driver incentives may be too little, too late
2021-04-13 07:00:00 Deals Carlyle to Take Majority Stake in Owner of Beautycounter Deal values parent Counter Brands at $1 billion
2021-04-13 07:00:00 CMO Today GumGum Raises $75 Million From Goldman Sachs The adtech company focuses on contextual advertising, as opposed to ads that target people based on identifiable information
2021-04-13 06:50:00 Markets Grab to Go Public in Record-Breaking SPAC Merger Deal values Southeast Asian ‘superapp’ operator at close to $40 billion
2021-04-13 06:39:00 World In Battle With U.S. for Global Sway, China Showers Money on Europe’s Neglected Areas Goods are arriving in Europe through a new trade corridor consisting of railroads, airport hubs and ports built with Chinese support
2021-04-13 06:39:00 Markets Stock Futures Pause Ahead of Inflation Data The S&P 500 is poised for muted trading ahead of figures that are likely to show U.S. consumer prices picked up in March
2021-04-13 06:33:00 Markets Banks Might Get Partial Immunity to Tax Increases Higher corporate tax rates will hit banks squarely, but the Biden Administration’s other priorities, like infrastructure and housing, could help lessen the blow
2021-04-13 06:22:00 Deals Chinese Auto Giant Geely Explores SPAC Deals Multinational company is in talks to sponsor $300 Million SPAC on Nasdaq and is considering another SPAC to float EV maker Polestar
2021-04-13 06:00:00 Markets Nvidia’s Ambitions Could Twist Its Own Arm Chipmaker’s move into data-center CPU market raises competitive profile but complicates Arm Holdings deal
2021-04-13 05:30:00 Markets Banks, After Bracing for Disaster, Are Now Ready for a Boom Analysts expect banks to post a big increase in profits, propelled by the release of rainy-day reserves
2021-04-13 05:30:00 Economy Inflation Likely Accelerated in March as Economic Recovery Gained Steam Economists expect March reading to signal start of extended upswing in prices
2021-04-13 05:30:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Investor Pushes Alphabet for Whistleblowing Review Citing recent red flags, Trillium Asset Management files another shareholder proposal urging tech giant to review protections for employees voicing human rights concerns
2021-04-13 05:30:00 Business Americans Have Too Much Toilet Paper. It Is Catching Up to Companies. Tissue sales fall to below pre-pandemic levels as consumers work through their stockpiles
2021-04-13 05:30:00 Markets How Payment Processor Stripe Became Silicon Valley’s Hottest Startup Stripe has turned a humdrum business—helping companies accept credit-card payments—into a blockbuster valuation
2021-04-13 05:00:00 Markets Gap to Replace Longtime Credit-Card Issuer Synchrony With Barclays Gap’s deal with the British bank ends a 22-year partnership with Synchrony, the largest U.S. issuer of store credit cards
2021-04-13 05:00:00 Experience Report Online Proctoring Programs Try to Ease the Tensions of Remote Testing Proctoring software firms try softening harsh language and improving onboarding processes
2021-04-13 04:47:00 U.S. Daunte Wright Shooting Sparks Anger, Clashes in Minnesota as Chauvin Trial Nears End Stores were looted and police fired chemicals into crowds Monday evening, a second night of unrest
2021-04-12 23:01:00 Business GameStop Working to Replace CEO George Sherman Such a change by the retailer would bring a near complete turnover in its C-suite, with many new faces with ties to Chewy added to board
2021-04-12 22:53:00 World Japan to Release Low-Radiation Fukushima Water Into Ocean With storage space running out, prime minister says move is safe, but fishery groups fear reputational damage
2021-04-12 20:32:00 Markets Regulators Step Up Scrutiny of SPACs With New View on Warrants Blank-check companies may have to reclassify the instruments as liabilities, SEC says
2021-04-12 19:19:00 Politics White House Nominates Women for Terrorism, Army, DEA Roles President Biden picks Christy Abizaid for top job at National Counterterrorism Center, Christine Wormuth for Secretary of Army and Anne Milgram as Drug Enforcement Administration director
2021-04-12 19:10:00 World St. Vincent Volcano Eruption: What We Know About the Caribbean Disaster Eruptions could continue for weeks; damage to crops and water the big concern
2021-04-12 19:06:00 World Arab-Israeli Dentist Holds Sway Over Israel’s Next Government Islamist leader Mansour Abbas embraces unlikely role of kingmaker, as Netanyahu tries to build a coalition after another deadlocked election
2021-04-12 19:01:00 World Ecuador’s New Leader Needs Help From U.S., but China Will Stay Close President-elect Guillermo Lasso will inherit an economy in crisis following one of Latin America’s worst Covid-19 outbreaks
2021-04-12 18:45:00 A Closer Look Selections from ‘Have You Ever Seen a Flower?’ by Shawn Harris
2021-04-12 18:39:00 Opinion The Green New Deal, in Disguise Biden’s ‘infrastructure’ bill is really a plan to remake the economy.
2021-04-12 18:35:00 Opinion Putin and ‘Consequences’ Putin masses troops near Ukraine in an early test for Biden and the G-7 allies.
2021-04-12 18:35:00 U.S. Derek Chauvin Prosecutors Near End of Case in George Floyd’s Death Defense will try to raise reasonable doubt as it begins presenting witnesses on Tuesday
2021-04-12 18:33:00 Opinion Illinois Democrats vs. Chicago Pritzker shows Mayor Lightfoot that public unions are his priority—school reopening, not so much.
2021-04-12 18:31:00 Opinion Great Schools Are the Solution to Educational ‘Segregation’ New York could replicate Success Academy’s winning model, but standing up to the bureaucracy will take courage.
2021-04-12 18:30:00 Opinion Can Biden’s Resolve Weather Putin and Xi? He needs to rally not only allies but dovish Democrats against Beijing and Moscow.
2021-04-12 18:30:00 Life & Arts U.K. Strain Doesn’t Result in More Severe Covid-19 Among Hospitalized Patients, Study Finds Researchers confirmed earlier findings of the B.1.1.7 variant’s contagiousness, but found it didn’t lead to more deaths or patients requiring ventilators in the study
2021-04-12 18:29:00 Opinion The Buttigieg Infrastructure Switcheroo His definition of the term is not what the American people think it means.
2021-04-12 18:27:00 Books ‘On the House’ Review: John Boehner Remembers Former House Speaker John Boehner doesn’t understand why House Republicans went mad. Maybe it had something to do with him.
2021-04-12 18:19:00 Opinion Politics Is Risky Business for CEOs It’s imprudent to weigh in on issues that don’t directly affect the company.
2021-04-12 18:17:00 Economy Fed’s Rosengren: Fed Policy Appropriate for Current State of Economy Boston Fed chief says he expects the economy to grow rapidly this year, though a full recovery could take longer than many think
2021-04-12 18:15:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: Deplorable Polling ‘The urge to stamp the opinion out will tend to make those who hold it grip more tightly.’
2021-04-12 18:14:00 Opinion The Other Day of Infamy in 1941 The Soviet-Japanese pact signed 80 years ago today was part of Stalin’s plot that led to Pearl Harbor.
2021-04-12 18:01:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Biden to Pick Former New Orleans Prosecutor to Lead Justice Department’s Criminal Division Now in private practice, Kenneth Polite served as U.S. attorney in New Orleans during the Obama administration
2021-04-12 17:50:00 World Taliban Back Out of Turkey Talks, Dealing a Blow to Afghanistan Peace Efforts Ahead of a May 1 deadline to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan, the Biden administration had hoped the talks would yield a cease-fire agreement
2021-04-12 17:47:00 Tech Nvidia Plans New Chip to Compete With Intel in Data-Center Market The product named Grace uses technology licensed from SoftBank Group-owned Arm
2021-04-12 17:43:00 Opinion Hunter Biden’s ‘Expertise’ The election is over but Washington’s press corps is still largely incurious about the Biden family business.
2021-04-12 17:38:00 U.S. New York City Subway Crime Keeps Riders Away, Survey Finds More than one-third of riders who stopped using subway during pandemic cite concerns about crime, harassment
2021-04-12 17:33:00 U.S. Minneapolis Police Shooting: Who Was Daunte Wright and What Happened in Brooklyn Center? A 20-year-old Black man was killed Sunday after police shot him during a traffic stop; police official says officer had intended to use her Taser
2021-04-12 17:17:00 CIO Journal Return to the Office Poses New Challenges, Opportunities for CIOs IT Leaders seek tech solutions to ‘create belonging and trust’
2021-04-12 17:14:00 Economy U.S. Budget Deficit Widened to a Record $1.7 Trillion for Six Months, as Stimulus Checks Fueled Spending Gap broadened to $660 billion in March alone as spending surged amid payouts
2021-04-12 16:58:00 Business Will Smith Movie Pulls Production Out of Georgia Over GOP Voting Law Exit by ‘Emancipation’ comes amid backlash to legislation that civil-rights advocates say will restrict Black Americans’ ballot access
2021-04-12 16:49:00 Experience Report Pinterest Adds Influencer Guidelines to Encourage Positivity The social-media network is the latest company to come up with rules specific to creators
2021-04-12 16:48:00 A Closer Look ‘The Big Bad Wolf in My House’ by Valerie Fontaine, illustrated by Nathalie Dion
2021-04-12 16:25:00 A Closer Look Selections from ‘Tough Like Mum’ by Lana Button, illustrated by Carmen Mok
2021-04-12 16:16:00 A Closer Look Yang Warriors by Kao Kalia Yang, illustrated by Billy Thao
2021-04-12 16:08:00 Life & Arts How Long Do Covid-19 Vaccines Provide Immunity? Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines provide good protection against the virus that causes Covid. But how long does that last? Will you need a booster shot? Here’s what we know.
2021-04-12 16:07:00 Music Review ‘The Battle at Garden’s Gate’ by Greta Van Fleet Review: Zep Without the Pep There’s not a whole lot to love on the band’s new album, which once again draws heavily from ’70s album rock without putting an original spin on the sound.
2021-04-12 15:50:00 Markets U.K. to Examine Former Prime Minister David Cameron’s Greensill Role Inquiry part of a broader investigation into government contracts with the bankrupt financing company
2021-04-12 15:40:00 CMO Today Tinder Names New CMO as Dating App Pursues Gen Z George Felix, a former marketing executive for Pizza Hut, KFC and Procter & Gamble, is joining Tinder as the world begins to show signs of emerging from the pandemic
2021-04-12 14:47:00 Politics Biden Touts Infrastructure Proposal in Chip Shortage Meeting The president speaks during meeting between administration officials and executives of Ford, GM, Intel, Alphabet and others
2021-04-12 14:32:00 Art Record-Setting Leonardo da Vinci Work Was Displayed on Saudi Leader’s Yacht ‘Salvator Mundi’ had hung in MBS-owned vessel after Saudi-Louvre dispute kept painting out of major Paris show
2021-04-12 13:16:00 Politics Trump Border Critics to Be Nominated to Immigration Posts by White House Move comes as a surge of migrants at southern border has become a challenge for Biden administration
2021-04-12 13:14:00 Politics Biden Begins Infrastructure Talks With Lawmakers Over $2.3 Trillion Bill Disagreements loom over cost, scope of White House’s initial proposal
2021-04-12 13:05:00 World Tanzania’s New President Nudges Country Away From Covid-19 Denial The nation’s first female leader seeks to shift her predecessor’s skeptical policy and regain international trust
2021-04-12 12:58:00 Life & Arts Don’t Get Attached to Your Favorite Men’s College Basketball Player. He May Be Angling to Transfer. More than 28% of 4,500-plus scholarship basketball players in the NCAA’s Division I have indicated a desire to transfer, anticipating new rules that wouldn’t force them to sit out a year
2021-04-12 12:52:00 Opinion Prince Philip Is Gone, Just When America Needs Him Most He was an iconoclast who cheerfully smashed the revered verities of progressive modernity.
2021-04-12 12:51:00 Opinion Spending Blowout Imposes Costs Beyond the Enormous Price Tag Nobody in Washington seems to care about the long-term burdens of debt and dependency.
2021-04-12 12:46:00 Life & Arts A Retired Physician Pursues a New Self Portrait in Photography It used to be a hobby. Now it’s his passion.
2021-04-12 12:13:00 World South Africa Covid-19 Strain: What We Know About the New Variant Researchers warn that the variant, now detected in the U.S. and more than 60 countries, may spread faster and could reduce the efficacy of vaccines
2021-04-12 12:13:00 Markets Microsoft’s Shopping Spree Isn’t Landing Bargains Acquisition of Nuance Communications adds to AI capabilities but represents high price for struggling business
2021-04-12 11:54:00 NY Fed: March Consumer Inflation Expectations Highest Since Mid-2014 Consumers polled said they see inflation at 3.2% a year from now, and at 3.1% three years from now
2021-04-12 11:43:00 Life & Arts How Fitbit, Whoop and Other Gadgets Are Measuring Brain Activity, Glucose and Sleep The Quantified Self Movement has gone beyond counting your steps to tracking everything from blood-oxygen levels to heart-rate variability
2021-04-12 10:58:00 Life & Arts ‘Satan Shoes,’ Nike Lawsuits and the Booming Sneaker Bootleg Market The much-buzzed launch of Mschf and Lil Nas X’s unsanctioned ‘Satan Shoes,’ pegged to the release of the artist’s single ‘Montero,’ was just one example of a slew of imaginatively remixed sneakers of late.
2021-04-12 10:57:00 Opinion Readers Give Secretary Yellen Some Candid Feedback on Taxes They respond to her op-ed on the Biden proposal to raise corporate taxes with, well, vigor.
2021-04-12 10:56:00 Opinion St. Augustine, Baseball, Wokeism and Pride The woke’s mea culpa isn’t beating their breasts but beating ours for us.
2021-04-12 10:55:00 Opinion Churchill’s Father’s Advice on President Joe Biden Lance Morrow might have quoted Lord Randolph Churchill on W.E. Gladstone.
2021-04-12 10:26:00 Politics Republicans Unveil Policies to Match ‘Working-Class Party’ Claim Lawmakers including Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio are proposing ways to help working-class families
2021-04-12 09:28:00 Markets Chip Shortage Is Bad for GM but Worse for Car Buyers Semiconductors shortage is worsening, but might need to drag out indefinitely to have a greater impact on auto stocks
2021-04-12 09:26:00 Business French Firms Strike $15.5 Billion Deal to Create Water, Waste-Management Behemoth Combined entity to take aim at rising infrastructure spending world-wide
2021-04-12 09:17:00 World Australia Expects Big Delays to Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout Prime Minister Scott Morrison says country is dropping its inoculation target, citing concerns over side effects from AstraZeneca doses and supply-chain issues
2021-04-12 09:00:00 Politics Supreme Court’s Bridgegate Ruling Casts Shadow on Federal Fraud Cases Court’s 2020 decision limiting application of antifraud laws leads prosecutors to urge dismissal of most charges in high-profile insider-trading case
2021-04-12 09:00:00 Tech Microsoft to Buy Nuance Communications for $19.7 Billion Software giant agrees to pay $56 per Nuance share, a 23% premium over Friday’s close
2021-04-12 08:44:00 Business Uber Posts Record Rider Demand in March Gross bookings rose to highest monthly level in company’s history as Covid-19 vaccinations pick up
2021-04-12 08:41:00 World Iran Blames Israel for Attack on Nuclear Facility, Vows to Retaliate Tehran says attack at Natanz took out centrifuges and marked an attempt to scuttle talks with the U.S.
2021-04-12 08:38:00 Business Cybersecurity Firm Darktrace Targets $4 Billion London IPO Planned listing comes as key backer Mike Lynch fights extradition to U.S. over fraud charges
2021-04-12 08:31:00 WSJ. Magazine Brené Brown on Why Good Leadership Has Nothing to Do With Your Salary The researcher, professor and author also says, “Another pandemic is going to follow this one—it’s already started; we’re months into it now—which is a real mental-health pandemic.”
2021-04-12 08:00:00 Tech For EV Startup Faraday Future, the Road Back From the Brink Runs Through a SPAC Electric-vehicle maker plans to start selling cars next year after new investors buy in following its brush with bankruptcy
2021-04-12 08:00:00 Politics Biden Infrastructure Plan Would Fund Shift Toward Home Healthcare for Seniors President’s proposal calls for $400 billion to give elderly more care at home rather than at institutions and hospitals
2021-04-12 07:30:00 Markets ETFs Could Rock the Bitcoin World Potential arrival of the low-cost crypto vehicles is already being felt in the market
2021-04-12 07:00:00 Business Boeing Shareholders Will Weigh Need for More Changes to Board Plane maker has replaced directors and bolstered management oversight since the second 737 MAX crash, but a proxy firm says more is needed
2021-04-12 06:51:00 Markets How a $2.8 Billion Fine Added $40 Billion to Alibaba Alibaba investors are relieved that the only thing they have to deal with is a huge fine. That could yet prove optimistic.
2021-04-12 06:49:00 Business Huawei, HSBC Strike Deal in Hong Kong Over Documents in Extradition Fight Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou believes documents will help in her battle against extradition from Canada to the U.S.
2021-04-12 06:31:00 Markets Ant Group to Become a Financial Holding Company Overseen by Central Bank People’s Bank of China said Ant representatives were summoned to a meeting Monday
2021-04-12 06:30:00 Markets For U.S. Companies, Home Is Where It’s At Domestically oriented companies might fare best as the U.S. economy powers ahead and foreign earnings face tax hike
2021-04-12 06:06:00 Markets S&P 500 Futures Slip After Index Hits Record Stock futures ticked down ahead of a busy week of corporate earnings and economic data
2021-04-12 05:44:00 U.S. Man Shot by Minnesota Police in Traffic Stop Dies Brooklyn Center police shooting sparks protests
2021-04-12 05:30:00 CFO Journal Levi’s CFO Plans to Increase Capital Spending on Digital Initiatives The jeans maker last year slashed its budget in response to pandemic-related store closures
2021-04-12 05:30:00 Markets Credit Suisse, After Archegos, Faces Tough Choices on Investment Bank Swiss lender’s investment bank has grown profits quickly, but now is expected to be scaled back for safety
2021-04-12 05:30:00 Markets Raw Materials Prices Have Surged. Corporate Profits Are Likely Next. Higher input costs generally accompany broad economic growth, allowing companies to pass along added expenses and fatten margins
2021-04-12 05:27:00 World Nepal’s Rhino Population Grows, Likely Boosted by Covid-19 Closures With nature reserves shut for most of last year, endangered animals had more freedom to roam, congregate and mate
2021-04-12 03:00:00 Ardian Banks $8.9 Billion for Buyouts The Paris firm plans to emphasize trans-Atlantic expansion as it invests the new fund
2021-04-12 01:32:00 Business Covid-19 Drug Prevents Symptomatic Disease in Study, Regeneron Says Drugmaker says it will ask federal health regulators to clear use among people who haven’t been vaccinated
2021-04-12 01:25:00 U.S. Amid a Wave of Hacks, Biden Moves to Fill Key Cyber Posts President expected to nominate NSA veterans to key positions
2021-04-11 23:53:00 Tech Alibaba, Hit by Antitrust Fine, Vows to Help Vendors With Fee Cuts Days after Chinese regulator imposed a record $2.8 billion penalty, the e-commerce giant says it will invest in steps to help merchants
2021-04-11 23:15:00 World Ecuador’s Guillermo Lasso Wins Presidential Election Conservative banker defeats protégé of leftist ex-president Rafael Correa, setting the country on pro-business path
2021-04-11 19:05:00 Life & Arts Hideki Matsuyama Wins the Masters and Makes History for Japan The 29-year-old became the first Japanese man to win a major when he survived late drama and miscues to earn a green jacket
2021-04-11 18:30:00 Media & Marketing Vox Media to Buy Owner of Preet Bharara’s Podcast Bharara, a former Manhattan U.S. attorney, will join Vox Media as a host and creative director
2021-04-11 17:32:00 Opinion God and the Border Crisis Churches play a vital role sheltering migrants, who are overwhelming U.S. and Mexican authorities.
2021-04-11 17:14:00 Opinion Targeting the U.S. Senate The progressive goal is a House-like body run by big-state majorities.
2021-04-11 17:12:00 Opinion A Free Exercise of Religion Supreme Court The Justices slap down another California pandemic order limiting the right to worship.
2021-04-11 17:11:00 Opinion Inflation Arrives. Is It ‘Transitory’? Producer prices rise 1% in March as supply-side constraints bite.
2021-04-11 17:11:00 Opinion Education Tragedy in Los Angeles A new report shows how the prolonged school shutdown has hurt kids.
2021-04-11 17:01:00 Management & Careers CEOs Plan New Push on Voting Legislation Companies from PayPal to AMC have signaled they will support joining effort for voter access, people say
2021-04-11 16:52:00 Opinion The Case for Vaccine ‘Passports’ Digital proof would allow Americans to visit family in the hospital, not keep folks out of restaurants.
2021-04-11 16:51:00 Opinion The Filibuster Made the Civil Rights Act Possible It prevented Southern senators from blocking debate and created the conditions for consensus.
2021-04-11 16:49:00 Opinion Flattered to Be on China’s Sanctions List We’ll keep exposing Beijing’s egregious religious-freedom violations in Xinjiang.
2021-04-11 16:48:00 Opinion Baseball Says Cuba ‘Sí,’ Georgia ‘No’ The league talks up its ‘values’ in the U.S. but loves doing business with Castro.
2021-04-11 16:47:00 Books ‘The Quick Fix’ Review: A Bias Toward Easy Answers The study of human behavior has led to real insights but also, too often, to simplistic, reductive ‘solutions’ to complex problems.
2021-04-11 15:35:00 World Iran Says Its Foes Targeted Nuclear Plant to Derail Potential Talks With U.S. Apparent blackout disrupts operations at Iran’s main nuclear facility at Natanz, a day after it went back online after a fire last summer
2021-04-11 15:00:00 Economy Economy Week Ahead: Inflation, Retail Sales, GDP China’s March exports are expected to rebound sharply from a year earlier
2021-04-11 14:56:00 Logistics Report Supply-Chain Software Provider Blue Yonder Weighs IPO Filing comes as global disruptions bring greater attention, investment to suppliers of logistics-technology tools
2021-04-11 14:50:00 Politics Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Tops Priorities as Congress Returns to Work White House plans meetings with lawmakers of both parties; gun background checks also on agenda
2021-04-11 14:32:00 Opinion Investigate Good, Existing Covid Therapies We already have evidence for generics reducing Covid death rates.
2021-04-11 14:29:00 Opinion Are Vaccine Passports a Freedom or Control? This heavily time-limited passport is a temporary incentive rewarding responsible behavior and ensuring fairness by preventing some from free-riding on the immunity of others.
2021-04-11 14:27:00 Opinion A Global Minimum Corporate Tax Is a Loser If Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen was an executive in the private sector, her attempt to collude on international corporate tax rates would likely lead to charges of conspiracy to fix prices.
2021-04-11 14:08:00 Economy Powell Sees Economy at Inflection Point Fed chairman says employment, economic output are about to start growing ‘much more quickly’
2021-04-11 13:43:00 Opinion Don’t Think, Just Bleep Intel shows off new technology to filter out hate, aggression and name-calling.
2021-04-11 13:30:00 Business CEO Pay Surged in a Year of Upheaval and Leadership Challenges The executives’ compensation for 2020 is on track for a record even as shareholders voice displeasure with some pay packages
2021-04-11 13:00:00 Life & Arts The Benefits of Having a Schedule in Retirement It doesn’t have to be rigid. But knowing roughly what you’ll do and when can keep you both active and grounded.
2021-04-11 12:23:00 Politics Trump Bashes McConnell in Speech to GOP Donors The remarks indicate the former president’s anger toward the Senate minority leader hasn’t abated since losing the election
2021-04-11 12:08:00 Politics Democrats Tie Infrastructure Package to Unionization Push Business community, labor groups and progressives square off over the PRO Act
2021-04-11 12:00:00 Real Estate NYC Co-Op Boards Would Have to Explain Why They Deny Buyers, Under New Bill Residential boards would have to give a written explanation when turning down a potential buyer, under state measure
2021-04-11 11:00:00 Life & Arts It Starts With Gum Disease. But It Can Lead to a Lot Worse. People skipped going to the dentist during the pandemic. It’s time to catch up.
2021-04-11 11:00:00 Markets Defaults Fall Again, Aiding Rally in Low-Rated Debt Credit investors are moving into higher-yielding assets, helping support prices on riskier junk bonds and leveraged loans
2021-04-11 10:04:00 World Jordan’s Royal Feud Sends Shockwaves Through Country’s Traditional Tribes As the U.S. ally marks 100 years since its founding, the backbone of its acclaimed stability has suffered a blow
2021-04-11 10:03:00 Economy With Economy Poised for Best Growth Since 1983, Inflation Lurks Federal stimulus and Covid-19 vaccinations have led to boosts in outlook for GDP and consumer prices in survey of economists
2021-04-11 09:31:00 Life & Arts Are You Emotionally Ready to Retire? Eight Questions to Ask Yourself Too many people leave work too early or too late. It doesn’t have to be this way.
2021-04-11 09:20:00 World Solar-Energy Supply Chain Depends on Region Where China Is Accused of Genocide The industry rethinks sourcing of critical materials in effort to avoid any connection to alleged forced labor and human-rights abuses
2021-04-11 09:00:00 Life & Arts What to Do (and Not Do) With a Target-Date Fund After Retiring A lot of savers shift gears after leaving work. Here’s what to consider before making that move.
2021-04-11 08:00:00 Life & Arts Some People Can’t Wait to Dress for Work Again With offices opening more, these workers are beyond ready to ditch their sweatpants and leggings
2021-04-11 07:06:00 World Prince Charles, Heir to the Throne for Nearly 70 Years, Moves Closer to Center Stage The prince has taken a different approach from his father, Prince Philip, in supporting the queen
2021-04-11 05:33:00 Business U.S. Faces Uphill Climb to Rival China’s Rare-Earth Magnet Industry West lags China on both supply and processing of materials key to electric cars and wind turbines
2021-04-11 05:30:00 Markets Sizzling Stock Market Sets High Bar for Earnings Season Investors will watch for clues about future profits as they consider pricey shares
2021-04-10 19:54:00 Life & Arts The Masters Still Flummoxes Bryson DeChambeau, Golf’s Mad Scientist The big hitter is obsessed with mastering Augusta National. But once again, Augusta National is mastering him.
2021-04-10 19:36:00 Tech Google’s Secret ‘Project Bernanke’ Revealed in Texas Antitrust Case Program used past bid data to boost tech giant’s win rate in advertising auctions, according to court filing
2021-04-10 17:57:00 Deals Medline Industries Explores Sale A deal could value the medical-supply company at as much as $30 billion
2021-04-10 16:48:00 Business Battery-Making Rivals to Settle Trade Rift That Threatened Georgia Plant SK Innovation and LG Chem’s settlement comes just before Sunday deadline for White House veto of trade commission decision
2021-04-10 14:23:00 World China’s Covid-19 Vaccination Campaign Gets Off to Slow Start Infections are low and people aren’t in a hurry; officials are using social pressure and incentives as encouragement
2021-04-10 13:46:00 World In Mourning a Prince, Britain Remembers Heroic Days of World War II, Empire The death of Prince Philip, at the center of public life for 75 years, marks generational shift in the life of a nation
2021-04-10 13:00:00 Life & Arts Goodbye, Conference Rooms. Hello, Home Remodeling. Laurel LaBauve was tired of the corporate life. So she retired and found her inspiration in Bob Vila.
2021-04-10 12:29:00 Tech As Apple and Facebook Clash Over Ads, Mom-and-Pop Shops Fear They’ll Be the Victims With big changes coming to iPhones, small online merchants are bracing for lost sales. ‘Why is Apple now the decider?’
2021-04-10 12:00:00 Business With Georgia Voting Law, the Business of Business Becomes Politics Coca-Cola and Delta received blowback from both left and right for their response to Georgia’s new voting law. Engaging on social issues is now part of the CEO job description, but it’s a treacherous path.
2021-04-10 12:00:00 Life & Arts Skinny Jeans and 9 Other Styles That Date You All the outmoded things you should purge from your wardrobe—plus, some updated men’s and women’s spring styles to take their place
2021-04-10 12:00:00 Life & Arts The Best Places to Retire? Here’s Where to Start There’s a lot of confusing information out there. You have to know which resources are worth your time.
2021-04-10 11:24:00 Life & Arts She Spent Her Career as a Job Counselor. Now She’s a Doula. Linda Spencer provides support to mothers during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. It’s hard work, but rewarding.
2021-04-10 11:23:00 Life & Arts The Family Heirlooms That Our Children Don’t Want Lifelong possessions look very different when we start trying to pass them on
2021-04-10 11:00:00 Tech Why Amazon Workers in Alabama Voted Against Union Warehouse employees cite job security as well as company’s arguments highlighting its strengths and the union’s weaknesses
2021-04-10 10:05:00 Markets The Economy Is Recovering: How to Invest When Everything Is Expensive Stock valuations have never been so stretched at the beginning of an economic cycle. Savers need to plan for lower future returns.
2021-04-10 10:00:00 Life & Arts The Work of Art in Eric Haze’s Garage The New York artist fed his passion for Super Stock cars by restoring his 1962 Plymouth Savoy in his trademark black, white and gray color scheme; ‘For many reasons, it was a gem.’
2021-04-10 09:00:00 Politics Sen. Joe Manchin’s Bipartisanship Was Shaped by 1996 Election Loss After failed campaign, West Virginia lawmaker learned how to build a coalition embracing labor, business and social conservatives
2021-04-10 09:00:00 Life & Arts What Covid-19 Taught Us About the High Cost of Isolation Let’s take the lessons of the past year and apply them to the post-pandemic world
2021-04-10 08:42:00 Politics What’s in the Democrats’ Voting-Rights Bill How early voting, same-day registration and voter ID rules would be affected by the proposed legislation
2021-04-10 08:00:00 Markets Here Are Some Tips to Keep Costs Down When Postponing A Wedding Postponing instead of canceling can save you money. Use the time to rethink your wedding. ‘Allowing couples to really embrace who they are.’
2021-04-10 08:00:00 Life & Arts Tina Turner, Princess Diana, and the Power of Revenge Fashion Retails analysts are predicting a rise in post-pandemic retail therapy, focused on dresses, heels, and other going-out looks. For inspiration, look no further than the icons of revenge style: Tina Turner and Princess Diana, both in the zeitgeist again.
2021-04-10 07:00:00 Art Review Retelling the Story of a Subcontinent The Peabody Essex Museum has rethought its South Asian Art galleries, contrasting works and perspectives from colonial and post-colonial India.
2021-04-10 06:35:00 World Prince Philip to Receive Military Gun Salute as Tributes Pour In A barrage of shots will be fired at noon in a tradition dating back to the 18th century
2021-04-10 06:00:00 Life & Arts Rose Tries Not to Wilt at the Masters. Again. Justin Rose has led at Augusta National before. He has never won. And his early lead has slimmed down with top players racing up the leaderboard.
2021-04-10 05:33:00 Markets Coinbase’s Lofty Valuation Might Erode as Crypto Markets Mature Cryptocurrency giant, which runs largest U.S. bitcoin exchange, plans to go public Wednesday
2021-04-10 05:30:00 Business Is It Safe to Eat at Restaurants Again? Here’s What to Expect Masks, long waits and higher prices are now part of dining out as more restaurants reopen amid the pandemic
2021-04-10 05:30:00 Economy Amazon Vote Deals Blow to Expanding Labor Union Membership Unionization rates are trending down in private sector, despite increased focus in Washington
2021-04-10 02:00:00 Politics Supreme Court Orders California to Allow in-Home Prayer Meetings In 5-4 decision, justices said religious gatherings are entitled to the least restrictive measures applied to secular activities
2021-04-09 23:34:00 Business Alibaba Hit With Record $2.8 Billion Antitrust Fine in China Penalty comes amid regulatory scrutiny on business empire of Alibaba founder Jack Ma
2021-04-09 22:09:00 Tech Facebook Product Chief Chris Cox’s 2020 Compensation Is Valued at $69.7 Million Most of the total is for restricted stock units; Cox is also entitled to receive $4 million sign-on bonus
2021-04-09 21:51:00 Markets SEC Review Highlights Potentially Misleading ESG Practices Among Funds Regulator found instances where firms didn’t consistently disclose their environmental, social or governance strategies
2021-04-09 20:18:00 CIO Journal XPO Logistics Taps CIO for Supply-Chain Services Spinoff Sandeep Sakharkar looks to robotics as clients around the world require more automation
2021-04-09 19:41:00 CFO Journal Raytheon Names Neil Mitchill as Chief Financial Officer Mr. Mitchill succeeds Anthony O’Brien, who is stepping down as finance chief of the aerospace supplier
2021-04-09 19:38:00 Markets Norwegian Cruise Line, Netflix, Amazon.com: Stocks That Defined the Week Here are seven major companies whose stocks moved on the week’s news
2021-04-09 19:10:00 Markets Startup Behind AstraZeneca Covid-19 Vaccine Files for U.S. IPO U.K.-based Vaccitech, spun out of the University of Oxford in 2016, has been aiming for valuation of around $700 million
2021-04-09 18:48:00 Opinion Biden Commissions the Supreme Court His panel on court-packing tilts sharply to the legal and political left.
2021-04-09 18:47:00 Opinion Biden’s Surge at the Southern Border The latest migrant numbers show much more than a seasonal increase.
2021-04-09 18:47:00 Opinion Amazon Workers Reject a Union Big Labor pulled out all the stops to organize an Alabama warehouse.
2021-04-09 18:46:00 Opinion A State Lockdown Accounting With rare exceptions, the states that shut down the longest suffered the most economic harm.
2021-04-09 18:40:00 Opinion Know Thyself, but Don’t Think There’s an App for That Your phone may be smart when it comes to your biometrics, but being thoughtful is up to you.
2021-04-09 18:40:00 Books ‘The Agitators’ Review: Disturbers of the Peace How Harriet Tubman, Martha Wright and Frances Seward challenged a nation’s conscience.
2021-04-09 18:39:00 Opinion The EU Plays Politics With Northern Ireland A Brexit dispute threatens to upend the Good Friday Agreement I worked hard to finish 23 years ago.
2021-04-09 18:39:00 Opinion Must the Justices Create a Trustworthy Press? Why not just hire smart people and ask them (or free them) to do honest reporting?
2021-04-09 18:38:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: A Fridge Full of Infrastructure Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s redefinition of the word meets ridicule.
2021-04-09 18:37:00 Opinion Covid Provides a Rare Chance to Transform Public Education In post-Katrina New Orleans, Louisiana built a system that serves the needs of students, not adults.
2021-04-09 18:37:00 Opinion America’s Oldest Asian Ally, Overlooked The Biden administration is favoring Singapore and Vietnam over Thailand, a treaty partner since 1833.
2021-04-09 18:37:00 Books What to Read This Week Our celebration of seasonal books on topics like nature, gardening, food and baseball—plus David Hockney in France, Richard Thompson’s musical memoir, ‘The Agitators’ and more.
2021-04-09 18:04:00 Books ‘The Glitter in the Green’ Review: Blink and You’ll Miss Them The smallest avians have always captured imaginations—sometimes to their own detriment.
2021-04-09 18:00:00 Books ‘The Horde’ Review: Path of Khans At its height, the empire of Chinggis Khan drew strength from flexibility.
2021-04-09 17:55:00 U.S. White House Border Coordinator Roberta Jacobson to Step Down at End of Month Departure comes as record number of unaccompanied minors crossed border illegally in March
2021-04-09 17:49:00 Books ’The God Equation’ Review: One String Theory to Rule Them All What is the universe made of? Physicists have answers but no unified theory explaining everything.
2021-04-09 17:48:00 Books ‘A Short History of Humanity’ Review: Lost Cousins Archaeogenetics has changed our picture of how ancient Homo sapiens spread—and who they met.
2021-04-09 17:46:00 Books ‘Waves Across the South’ Review: New Kingdoms While crowned heads were losing their power in Europe, unrest elsewhere inaugurated monarchies.
2021-04-09 17:45:00 Books ‘Valcour’ Review: The Guns of Lake Champlain A ship raised from the depths helps tell the story of a pivotal naval battle in the War of Independence.
2021-04-09 17:22:00 Life & Arts The Best Remedy For Our Diseases? Aging Less Some animals hardly deteriorate as they get older. New therapies could help humans to achieve the same healthy longevity.
2021-04-09 17:13:00 Pro Bankruptcy Charter Hit With $19 Million Judgment for Windstream Bankruptcy Mailers The legal fight highlights the ways companies can try to capitalize when a competitor files for bankruptcy, and the perils that can invite
2021-04-09 17:07:00 Masterpiece Celebrating and Satirizing New York’s Aesthetes Florine Stettheimer’s wry 1942 ‘The Cathedrals of Art’ sends up the city’s storied museums and the elites in their orbit.
2021-04-09 17:01:00 Life & Arts Nancy Reagan and the Power of Intimacy Exercising an influence unlike any first lady before or since, she guided her husband’s rise to power and secured his legacy.
2021-04-09 17:01:00 Business BJ’s Wholesale Club CEO and President Lee Delaney Dies at 49 Retailer says executive died unexpectedly, as board names Bob Eddy as interim CEO
2021-04-09 16:57:00 Politics Biden Budget Outline Seeks More Money for Education, Health President would raise discretionary spending by 8.4% to $1.52 trillion with focus on Democratic priorities
2021-04-09 16:48:00 Opinion How Many Jobs Will Be Lost to Biden ‘Infrastructure’? A Wharton study says wages will fall.
2021-04-09 16:47:00 Politics Matt Gaetz Named as Subject of House Ethics Committee Probe Florida Republican is under investigation by federal authorities into whether he violated federal sex-trafficking laws
2021-04-09 16:41:00 U.S. Vaccination Passports Are New Flashpoint in Covid-19 Pandemic With no federal mandate to require a single vaccination credential, the private sector and local governments are filling the gaps
2021-04-09 16:28:00 Politics Biden Orders Study of Supreme Court Changes New commission will study potential measures including expanding the number of justices
2021-04-09 16:24:00 Business Aramco to Sell 49% Stake in Oil Pipelines to Consortium Led by EIG, Mubadala Deal comes as Saudi Arabia seeks to diversify economy, attract foreign investors
2021-04-09 16:10:00 U.S. U.S. Defense Chief Plans Israel Meetings Amid Iran Tensions Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin also plans to meet military chiefs in Europe as part of trip
2021-04-09 15:51:00 Risk & Compliance Journal President’s Budget Request Includes Funds for Corporate Ownership Registry The request would add $64 million to the budget of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
2021-04-09 15:04:00 Opinion The Report That Shook Britain’s Race Lobby A government commission finds the U.K. is no longer ‘deliberately rigged’ against minorities. Cue the outrage and racial attacks on its chairman, Tony Sewell.
2021-04-09 15:00:00 Life & Arts What It’s Like to Retire in Alaska It was the last place I wanted to even visit. Then we moved there.
2021-04-09 14:44:00 Markets Amazon’s Labor Unrest May Show at the Margins Unionization would be a challenge given Amazon’s distribution scale, but impact could be felt on margin expansion
2021-04-09 14:27:00 Business Europe Investigates Reports of Blood Clots in Recipients of J&J’s Covid-19 Vaccine Three cases have occurred in the U.S. vaccination campaign and one in clinical trials
2021-04-09 13:52:00 Life & Arts American Original Georgia O’Keeffe Goes to Spain A new exhibition in Madrid explores the power of a painter who ‘needed to move to create.’
2021-04-09 13:34:00 Opinion CEOs Discover Progressive Political Religion Whatever happened to the concept of CEOs focusing on the interests of their shareholders? How about arguing against raising the corporate tax rate for starters?
2021-04-09 13:33:00 Opinion New York’s Past is a Draw, Worth Preserving Can you imagine if Robert Moses had been successful in building a highway through Greenwich Village?
2021-04-09 13:32:00 Opinion Move on From ‘If It Bleeds, It Leads’ With Covid-19 Never mind that the hundred cases reported in Washington state are one-hundredth of 1% of the total 1.2 million who have been vaccinated there.
2021-04-09 13:13:00 Life & Arts Vacation Rentals That Deliver Serenity and Fuel Creativity A pandemic-weary urbanite rents a farmhouse in Vermont, just down the road from where novelist Rudyard Kipling built his own safe haven. Plus: Former homes of famous writers, from Jane Austen to John Steinbeck, available as holiday rentals
2021-04-09 12:33:00 World Russia Warns of Full-Scale War in Eastern Ukraine, Blames Kyiv The buildup of Russian troops on the border and escalating rhetoric threaten to derail efforts to reach a peaceful settlement
2021-04-09 12:00:00 Business White House to Push Infrastructure Plan in Summit Meeting on Chip Shortage Ford, GM and Intel are among companies slated to meet with administration officials on Monday
2021-04-09 12:00:00 Life & Arts A Digital Vault to Store Information for Your Heirs Online vaults can hold the location of your will, bank-account numbers, ongoing subscriptions, recipes—anything your heirs will find useful
2021-04-09 10:30:00 Markets Don’t Be Fooled by This Stock Market’s Newest Magic Trick A quirk in the calendar just did some heavy lifting, causing the market declines from early last year to disappear from a key fund-manager benchmark.
2021-04-09 10:14:00 Politics Why Ron DeSantis’s 2024 Stock Is Rising Florida governor’s handling of Covid-19 and sparring with media could boost him in the GOP presidential field, but first he has to get re-elected
2021-04-09 09:50:00 Books Mysteries: ‘Mother May I’ Review A kidnapper’s instructions lead a woman down a deadly path in Joshilyn Jackson’s thriller.
2021-04-09 09:44:00 Markets Mega Stocks Take Back Control of Market Rally Reflation trade, which benefited small stocks, has gone AWOL
2021-04-09 09:40:00 Life & Arts Hot New Fitness Product: The Outside Amid a crush of indoor fitness products, a testimonial for simply walking out the door
2021-04-09 09:40:00 World North Korea’s Kim Warns of ‘Arduous March’ as Economic Problems Bite His remarks evoked the pain of 1990s famine; could mean that recovery from Covid-19 and U.S. sanctions is some way off
2021-04-09 09:38:00 U.S. Prosecution in Derek Chauvin Trial Set to Call Key Witness Medical examiner Andrew Baker has classified George Floyd’s death as a homicide but has also pointed out ambiguities
2021-04-09 09:37:00 Markets Dollar Hits Rough Patch After Strong Start to 2021 Investors don’t expect the currency’s weakness to last as the U.S. economy outpaces others
2021-04-09 09:26:00 World Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II’s Husband, Dies at 99 Duke of Edinburgh’s passing marks the start of a generational transition for Britain’s royal family
2021-04-09 09:07:00 Fed’s Clarida Says Economic Reopening Could Bring Supply-Demand Imbalances The Fed vice chairman said one condition of raising rates would be seeing inflation getting to 2% for at least a year or so
2021-04-09 09:00:00 U.S. Alleged CIA Ties Figure in Case of Convicted Political Donor Imaad Zuberi, recently sentenced to 12 years in prison, did intelligence work for U.S. for over a decade, say people familiar with his defense
2021-04-09 09:00:00 Life & Arts The Smart Way to Make Sure Your Retirement Nest Egg Lasts Forget the conventional wisdom of withdrawing a fixed amount each year. Flexibility will increase the odds of not spending too little or too much.
2021-04-09 08:58:00 World India Faces Covid-19 Vaccine Shortage as Cases Surge Hospitals say they are running out of doses as infections rise
2021-04-09 08:44:00 Business Boeing Flags Potential 737 MAX Electrical Issue on Specific Jets Southwest removes 30 aircraft affected by notification but expects minimal disruption
2021-04-09 08:10:00 Business J&J Covid-19 Vaccine Deliveries to Drop Significantly Next Week It is unclear why states are projected to get 700,000 doses, down from 4.9 million the week before
2021-04-09 08:00:00 Tech Facebook Shows Men and Women Different Job Ads, Study Finds Researchers found the platform’s algorithms promoted roles to certain users; company pledges to continue work in removing bias from recommendations
2021-04-09 08:00:00 U.S. 3M Military Earplugs Blamed for Hearing Loss in Largest Set of U.S. Suits First trial is under way in Florida as company rebuts allegations from more than 200,000 service members and veterans that it sold defective products
2021-04-09 07:33:00 Markets All That Glitters Isn’t Goldman A blockchain stock surges on report of analyst coverage, but read the fine print
2021-04-09 07:19:00 Markets The Improbable Dream of the Chinese Property Tax The dynamics of the country’s housing market may simply make a tax too costly, whatever its merits
2021-04-09 07:00:00 Politics Gun-Safety Incentives Draw Bipartisan Support Interest in tax credits for storage devices comes as background checks and other firearms proposals face uphill battle in Senate
2021-04-09 07:00:00 Markets Peloton Doesn’t Need to Sweat So Much Investors have been backpedaling hard on the company’s stock even as its delivery times have improved
2021-04-09 06:45:00 Life & Arts 2021 Toyota Sienna: A Rare Hybrid Minivan Even a Teen Can Love Toyota’s full-size minivan has been redesigned inside and out, and now offers a long-sought hybrid variant—plus options that will keep the whole family happy
2021-04-09 06:38:00 World Iran Releases South Korean Oil Tanker Seized Over Frozen Funds Banks in South Korea blocked several billion dollars in 2019 to comply with U.S. sanctions on Iran
2021-04-09 06:20:00 Markets Stock Futures Wobble After S&P 500 Hits Record Large technology stocks are on track to close out their best week in over two months, and powered the S&P 500 to its 19th all-time closing high of 2021
2021-04-09 06:00:00 CMO Today Text-Messaging Platform Community Raises $40 Million From Salesforce The platform for brands and celebrities seeks to expand to more large marketers and small businesses
2021-04-09 06:00:00 Life & Arts Real Madrid and Barcelona Are Struggling. That Might Not Keep Them From a Title. Despite a season of crises, the winner of this weekend’s Clásico will likely become the favorite to win La Liga
2021-04-09 05:35:00 Markets Biden Tests Tech Giants’ Support for Global Tax Reform White House’s proposal clears a path for an overhaul that could cost companies $100 billion
2021-04-09 05:30:00 Tech Amazon Is Ahead in Union Vote as Tallying Set to Resume With about half the Amazon employees’ ballots counted by federal officials, an estimated 70% were votes not to unionize
2021-04-09 05:30:00 Pro Cyber News U.K., EU Face Privacy Criticism for Covid-19 Passport Plans Privacy advocates say coronavirus certificates will require people to share sensitive health data
2021-04-09 05:30:00 Business The Latest Workplace Perk: Cash Bonuses for Taking Vacations Some companies are using drastic measures to push employees to use their time off that has accrued during the pandemic
2021-04-09 05:30:00 Politics Voters Show No 2020 Hangover So Far Higher-than-usual level of interest in politics persists during early days of Biden presidency
2021-04-09 05:30:00 Markets Fertility and Daycare Stocks Trail as Covid-19 Derails Family Planning Bright Horizons, Progyny have underperformed as pandemic and economic downturn have shifted routines and led to a baby bust
2021-04-09 05:30:00 Business McDonald’s Is Closing Hundreds of Its Walmart Restaurants Fast-food chains are closing more in-store restaurants as the Covid-19 pandemic accelerates the demise of a once mutually beneficial relationship
2021-04-09 05:30:00 Markets New Bonds Fuel Lending to Fast-Growing but Unprofitable Tech Companies Wall Street is selling new complex securities backed by private loans to loss-making businesses
2021-04-09 05:30:00 Markets Clothes Shoppers Are About to Realize Just How Messed Up Shipping Has Become Port congestion issues are bad news for Americans eager to upgrade their wardrobes. But retailers may end up benefitting—at least a little.
2021-04-09 05:30:00 Markets The Cost of Postponing a Wedding Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic Some couples who racked up fees for postponed weddings are rethinking the whole affair. ‘I can’t stomach spending a cent more’
2021-04-09 04:49:00 Business China Car Sales Soar to Pre-Pandemic Levels First-quarter sales were up 69% from a year earlier to 5.09 million vehicles, about matching 2019 figure
2021-04-09 04:31:00 World Troubled Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout in Europe Nears Possible Turning Point Rapidly rising production of vaccines is spurring hope that the EU can catch up with the U.S. and U.K., allowing an economic reopening in the third quarter
2021-04-09 01:18:00 Business Taylor Swift Releases New ‘Fearless’ Album, Reclaiming Her Back Catalog Two years after failing to acquire the rights to her early albums, the music superstar releases a re-recording of her Grammy-winning 2008 album to gain more control over her legacy
2021-04-08 20:50:00 Pro Bankruptcy NRA CEO LaPierre Allegedly Told Travel Agent to Hide Certain Stops on His Private Jet Flights Testimony about private jet flights emerged in the NRA’s bankruptcy case as the organization fights to stay in chapter 11
2021-04-08 20:25:00 U.S. George Floyd Died of Low Oxygen, Experts Say in Derek Chauvin Trial Doctors testify that Floyd died of oxygen deprivation, as an officer knelt on his neck, while two other officers restrained his back and legs
2021-04-08 19:47:00 Pro Bankruptcy Texas Wind Farm Denied Protection From Citi Over $113 Million Storm Bill A judge in New York faults the Stephens Ranch wind farm for failing to deliver power as required during the Texas cold snap
2021-04-08 19:31:00 Markets SEC Seeks to Curb Lofty SPAC Projections Statement by regulator’s acting director addresses the frenzy over blank-check company deals
2021-04-08 19:22:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Chief of SEC Whistleblower Office, Jane Norberg, Leaving Agency This Month Emily Pasquinelli, the whistleblower office’s deputy chief, will take over from Ms. Norberg as acting chief
2021-04-08 18:46:00 Politics Biden Courts Republicans Wary of Infrastructure Plan’s Size and Taxes White House says it continues to seek bipartisan support for $2.3 trillion package
2021-04-08 18:38:00 Opinion America Needs the GOP, and It Needs Help The Republican Party is at a low point, but the two-party system is too vital to abandon.
2021-04-08 18:37:00 Opinion Reject Nord Stream 2 Once and for All The pipeline puts Ukraine’s national security at serious risk.
2021-04-08 18:36:00 Opinion About That Tax ‘Race to the Bottom’ Democrats try to sell Biden’s plan with a tax-competition myth.
2021-04-08 18:34:00 Opinion The GOP’s Trump Problem The former President attacks Georgia Republicans.
2021-04-08 18:32:00 Opinion YouTube’s Assault on Covid Accountability The company scrubs a video of Florida Gov. DeSantis’s policy roundtable with physicians and scientists.
2021-04-08 18:21:00 Opinion The Red Sox Speak Up for Racial Engineering in Boston Schools More politics from the major leagues, as the team weighs in to support a ‘ZIP Code quota’ scheme.
2021-04-08 18:21:00 Opinion Stop Taking Shots at Those Who Fear Them Americans who worry about needles and side effects need comfort, not insults.
2021-04-08 18:20:00 Opinion The Best Tonic for Restoring the GOP: Overreaching Democrats Republicans have a record fundraising quarter, no thanks to corporate PACs.
2021-04-08 18:20:00 Opinion Berlin’s New Church of Nothing Maybe the communist goal of secularizing East Germany was successful after all.
2021-04-08 18:19:00 Books ‘Mom Genes’ Review: The Making of a Mother To experience pregnancy, childbirth and maternity is to take part in a ‘cellular-level revolution that rebuilds the female brain.’
2021-04-08 18:19:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: The Israeli Odd Couple ‘As far as safeguarding Jewish tradition is concerned, it is better to go with the representatives of the Arab public, than with the representatives from the left.’
2021-04-08 18:14:00 U.S. Tax Talks Gain Momentum as U.S. Offers New Proposal Toward Global Deal Proposal focuses on how to tax corporate income whose location is difficult to pin down
2021-04-08 18:08:00 Life & Arts The Subtle Acoustics of Our Dishware The clinking you hear while washing up is the sound of your plates, bowls and mugs oscillating like bells
2021-04-08 17:59:00 Politics Haaland Says All Sides Will Be Heard in Utah Monuments Fight Interior secretary meets with competing interests in trip to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, monuments downsized by Trump
2021-04-08 17:56:00 Business Nike Settles Lil Nas X Satan Shoe Lawsuit With MSCHF MSCHF will offer to buy back Satan Shoes for their original price
2021-04-08 17:52:00 World France’s Macron Replaces ENA With New School for French Elite The Ecole Nationale d’Administration has become a lightning rod for critics who say it is a breeding ground for cronyism
2021-04-08 17:43:00 Film Review ‘Moffie’ Review: A Young Soul at War A closeted soldier grapples with his sexuality during his compulsory military service in apartheid South Africa
2021-04-08 17:37:00 Real Estate Oracle’s Larry Ellison Buys Palm Beach Mansion for $80 Million The final price for hedge-funder Gabe Hoffman’s estate was just over the $79.5 million asking price
2021-04-08 17:33:00 U.S. New York Charges Man in Three Anti-Asian Attacks NYPD officials say Joseph Russo allegedly pushed a 64-year-old woman in one incident
2021-04-08 17:31:00 Television Review ‘The People v. the Klan’ Review: A Mother in Pursuit of Justice A CNN docuseries tells the remarkable story of the successful civil suit pursued by Beulah Mae Donald against a KKK organization for the 1981 murder of her son Michael
2021-04-08 17:28:00 Tech P&G Worked With China Trade Group on Tech to Sidestep Apple Privacy Rules One of world’s largest ad buyers spent years building marketing machine reliant on digital user data, putting it at odds with iPhone maker’s privacy moves
2021-04-08 17:26:00 Opinion ‘Yours Unfaithfully’ Review: Three’s Trouble A wife encourages her unhappy husband to have an affair in the Mint Theater’s 2016 world premiere of Miles Malleson’s 1933 play
2021-04-08 17:25:00 Arts Oscars 2021: How to Watch, Date, Nominations and Everything You Need to Know The 93rd Academy Awards ceremony will air on Sunday evening, April 25. Here’s where to watch.
2021-04-08 17:23:00 Film Review ‘Voyagers’ Review: 2063: A Spaced-Out Odyssey Lily-Rose Depp and Tye Sheridan play crew members on an 86-year journey to another planet in a science-fiction movie that examines the role of desire in human nature.
2021-04-08 17:22:00 Television Review ‘Our Towns’ Review: On the Ground in Flyover Country An HBO documentary based on the nonfiction bestseller of the same name finds small communities in ‘real’ America overcoming adversity
2021-04-08 17:21:00 Politics Infrastructure Is in the Eye of the Democratic or Republican Beholder Biden expands the definition of the term; GOP knocks it down
2021-04-08 17:09:00 Business Netflix Inks Deal for Rights to Sony Movies, Including Coming ‘Spider-Man’ Films Multiyear pact will start with Sony Pictures Entertainment’s 2022 movie slate; also covers select films in Sony library
2021-04-08 17:08:00 Business GM to Halt Production at Several North American Plants Due to Chip Shortage Affected vehicles include Chevrolet Traverse, Cadillac SUV models XT5 and XT6
2021-04-08 17:07:00 U.S. Matt Gaetz Associate Is in Plea Talks With Federal Prosecutors Joel Greenberg, indicted on 33 counts including sex trafficking and wire fraud, could provide information about any criminal activities of GOP congressman
2021-04-08 16:55:00 Economy New York Fed Official: Fed May Expand Access to Reverse Repo Facility
2021-04-08 16:53:00 Politics What’s in Biden’s $2 Trillion Corporate Tax Plan Companies would face higher taxes on domestic and foreign income
2021-04-08 16:50:00 Books Bestselling Books Week Ended April 3 With data from NPD BookScan
2021-04-08 16:43:00 U.S. Soaring Costs of Nurses During Covid-19 Pandemic Are at Center of Lawsuits Hospital chain Steward Health Care and staffing firm Aya Healthcare sue each other over nurse bills after coronavirus stoked labor demand
2021-04-08 16:30:00 Business Disneyland’s Sanitized Reopening Plan Is More Digital, Less Hands-On Theme parks chief has used yearlong closure during pandemic to rethink ways of engaging visitors
2021-04-08 16:16:00 Business Florida Sues U.S. Health Authorities to Restart Cruises The lawsuit asks the court to set aside and declare unlawful the CDC’s conditional-sailing order
2021-04-08 16:03:00 Opinion Procter & Gamble’s New Stakeholder The woke corporation partners with a state-backed organization in China to collect data on consumers.
2021-04-08 16:01:00 U.S. Trump Organization Executive’s Former In-Law Hands Over Documents in Probe Manhattan prosecutors had subpoenaed financial records from Jennifer Weisselberg, ex-wife of the son of Trump Organization CFO
2021-04-08 16:00:00 World As the U.S. Vaccinates Millions for Covid-19, Most Canadians Are Still Waiting Canada’s vaccine rollout has been among the slowest in major economies, and it is imposing fresh lockdowns as virus variants spread
2021-04-08 15:57:00 Politics Inside President Biden’s New Gun-Control Actions The White House is seeking ways to act without Congress, after gun legislation for years has been tied up in partisan and ideological fights
2021-04-08 15:54:00 Life & Arts A Pinot Noir Success Story: Reliable Quality, Excellent Value The four friends behind Oregon’s A to Z Wineworks have hit on a winning formula. How do they manage to produce a Pinot Noir so affordable, widely available and consistently good, vintage after vintage?
2021-04-08 15:52:00 Markets Mortgage Interest Deduction: Who Gets It?
2021-04-08 15:49:00 Markets Child Tax Credit, Including How the 2021 Relief Bill Changed It
2021-04-08 15:45:00 Markets Standard Deduction 2020-2021: What It Is and How it Affects Your Taxes
2021-04-08 15:31:00 Politics Biden Outlines New Gun-Control Measures, Including on ‘Ghost Guns,’ Arm Braces White House seeks ways to implement new restrictions, as congressional Republicans and NRA oppose most Democratic proposals
2021-04-08 15:28:00 Facebook Says Leak of 533 Million Users’ Data Wasn’t a Hack. Does it Matter? Information scraped from profiles may still be weaponized in future cyberattacks
2021-04-08 15:23:00 Logistics Report Singapore Looks to Tech to Bolster Its Role in Shipping The city-state is offering incentives to draw $15 billion in investment across all aspects of the marine freight business, with an eye on tech
2021-04-08 15:20:00 Books What to Read This Spring: The Best Books on Nature Formidable, social, weird and downright beautiful: Wasps and ants are living wonders.
2021-04-08 15:18:00 U.S. Powell Calls for Faster Global Vaccination Fed chief says potential virus mutation remains a risk to economic progress
2021-04-08 15:12:00 World Riots in Northern Ireland Spurred by Brexit, Crime and Covid-19 Restrictions Dozens of police injured in more than a week of disorder
2021-04-08 14:41:00 Opinion The Biden Plan for Economic Sclerosis American workers would suffer under his proposal to tax capital and subsidize green energy.
2021-04-08 14:37:00 Opinion No Reopening Please, We’re British The U.K. is a cautionary example of neuroses run amok as it stays locked down despite vaccinations.
2021-04-08 14:34:00 Markets 2020-2021 Federal Income-Tax Rates and Brackets
2021-04-08 14:18:00 Opinion Biden to Make America Uncompetitive Again I vividly remember Janet Yellen telling us several times the well-understood truth that “corporations don’t pay taxes.”
2021-04-08 14:17:00 Books What to Read This Spring: The Best Books on Gardening Barbara Paul Robinson explores how gardens help us ‘forget the troubles of our world.’
2021-04-08 14:17:00 Opinion Fairness Is an Issue in Cap Gains Tax at Death Establishing basis for many items and maintaining basis records on many types of property over many decades made it impractical.
2021-04-08 14:16:00 Opinion Wokeness and U.S. Demand for Illegal Drugs The demand for illegal drugs in this country fuels drug trafficking, human trafficking, drug wars, murders, official corruption, electoral fraud and finances the repression of democracy.
2021-04-08 14:13:00 Books What to Read This Spring: The Best Picture Books for Kids Trees and bees, frogs and toadstools: Nature comes alive for little ones on these pages.
2021-04-08 14:01:00 Markets New York State’s Tax Increase: What High Earners Need to Know Changes for some in New York City create the highest combined local tax rate in the country
2021-04-08 13:43:00 World Suez Canal Has Reopened, but Ever Given Isn’t Free to Go Egyptian authorities say they won’t release ship until its owners pay compensation and an investigation is complete
2021-04-08 13:32:00 World Behind Jordan’s Royal Family Feud, a Prince Who Upstaged a King Separate visits to a small farm town laid bare the rivalry between King Abdullah II and his half-brother, Prince Hamzah
2021-04-08 13:20:00 Real Estate The 5 Worst Patio-Decorating Mistakes—And How to Avoid Them We asked designers and architects for antidotes to the most common outdoor-décor gaffes. Plus the kookiest flourishes the pros have seen.
2021-04-08 13:10:00 Business SoftBank to Invest $500 Million in Mortgage Startup Better Investment values the company at $6 billion
2021-04-08 13:03:00 Business AstraZeneca Covid-19 Vaccine Restrictions Pile Up, Complicating Shot Rollouts Australia is reassessing its purchases, timeline for vaccinating all residents amid concerns about blood clots in very rare cases
2021-04-08 12:37:00 Economy Workers Slowly Pull Away From Jobless Benefits as Economy Picks Up Filings for claims hover near pandemic lows amid other signs of a growing labor market
2021-04-08 12:33:00 Markets CME Seeks to Tap Electric-Car Demand With Lithium Futures Contracts tied to the battery metal could make pricing more transparent
2021-04-08 12:27:00 World U.S. Blacklists Chinese Entities It Says Are Aiding Weapons Program Action bars American firms from supplying chips to Chinese supercomputing developers
2021-04-08 11:46:00 Life & Arts The Best Way to Cook Asparagus and Other Tips From a Vegetarian Recipe Pro Cookbook author Hetty McKinnon shares her techniques for getting maximum flavor from meatless meals, plus favorite tools and ingredients, a recipe for stir-fried salt-and-vinegar potatoes, and a few words of wisdom from Mom
2021-04-08 10:31:00 Markets Compass Needs to Flip the Narrative Real-estate company’s performance shows that even in a hot market, investors don’t like to be oversold
2021-04-08 10:09:00 Markets Hyper-Nationalism on Xinjiang Poses Risks for Chinese Brands, Too Some Western firms have become nationalist targets, but ‘consumer decoupling’ could cut both ways
2021-04-08 09:32:00 CIO Journal Facebook Dataset Addresses Algorithmic Bias The dataset, called Casual Conversations, consists of some 45,000 videos of 3,000 participants of various skin tones sharing their age and gender
2021-04-08 08:00:00 CMO Today Publicis Groupe Signs On to Use Trade Desk’s Alternative to Cookies The companies are teaming up to create a self-service ad platform for Publicis’s Epsilon unit
2021-04-08 07:38:00 Markets Airline Startups Want a Piece of Post-Covid Travel New carriers are emerging to take advantage of the recovery, but making money won’t be easy
2021-04-08 06:56:00 Life & Arts These Meatless Tacos Are Quick and Satisfying Tacos rojos are defined by their intensely flavorful, brick-red chile-tomato salsa. This speedy vegetarian recipe makes them doable any night of the week.
2021-04-08 04:46:00 Markets Investors Sour on Emerging Markets as U.S. Prospects Brighten Capital flows out of emerging-market stocks and bonds as U.S. real yields climb and dollar strengthens
2021-04-08 04:00:00 CFO Journal After Wirecard, Germany’s Proposed Audit Overhaul Worries Finance Executives Proposed legislation calls for higher fines for audit firms and more oversight of regulator BaFin
2021-04-07 23:33:00 World South Korea’s Ruling Party Is Reeling as Conservatives Win Big in Mayoral Polls Pair of landslide victories in mayoral races in South Korea’s two largest cities deliver rebuke of Moon administration
2021-04-07 23:25:00 Markets Investor Appetite Dwindles for Blue-Chip Bond Funds Amid Losses Flows into investment-grade bond funds dropped by almost 50% at the end of March
2021-04-07 21:51:00 Business Amazon’s Alabama Union Vote: What We Know So Far More than 3,000 ballots were cast in the Bessemer, Ala., vote on whether to form the first union for hourly Amazon workers
2021-04-07 19:22:00 CIO Journal Global IT Spending Expected to Rise 8.4% to $4.1 Trillion This Year Rebound to pre-pandemic spending levels won’t spread evenly across industries
2021-04-07 18:37:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Credit-Card Startup Petal Hires New Chief Compliance Officer Elizabeth Corbett, who has held senior roles at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, joins the fintech company as it looks for help navigating regulatory issues in Washington
2021-04-07 18:32:00 Opinion New York Taxes Go Skyscraper High A weak and desperate Cuomo caves to the left on everything.
2021-04-07 18:31:00 Opinion The Permanent Housing Crisis Continuing government bans on eviction and foreclosure are doing more harm than good.
2021-04-07 18:29:00 Opinion Why Are Home Prices Soaring? One reason is a tariff on Canadian lumber that Biden can kill.
2021-04-07 18:27:00 Opinion Woman Versus the Union Machine Suing Oregon and the SEIU to vindicate her right not to pay fees.
2021-04-07 18:11:00 National Security Suspected China Hack of Microsoft Shows Signs of Prior Reconnaissance Investigators suspect personal data taken in earlier huge hacks or scraped off social-media sites aided breach of Microsoft Exchange Server
2021-04-07 17:56:00 Opinion Marin County’s Discriminatory ‘Universal Basic Income’ Only ‘mothers of color’ will be eligible for payments of $1,000 a month.
2021-04-07 17:56:00 Opinion CEOs’ Selective Virtue Signaling If executives oppose restrictive voting laws, why are they singling out Georgia?
2021-04-07 17:49:00 Opinion Yes, Boycott Baseball Liberals the past year have become addicted to political wokeness. It’s time for an intervention
2021-04-07 17:25:00 Opinion Ron DeSantis and ‘Resistance Journalism’ Florida’s governor and the new rules of media sourcing.
2021-04-07 17:15:00 Deals StockX Valued at $3.8 Billion and Lets Employees Sell Shares The online marketplace sold $60 million worth of new stock in its latest fundraising round
2021-04-07 17:15:00 Pro Bankruptcy Distress Mall Owner Explores Debt Restructuring for New York’s Largest Shopping Center The owner of the Destiny USA shopping complex in Syracuse has engaged restructuring advisers amid continued pressure from the pandemic
2021-04-07 17:02:00 Deals Buyout Firms Team Up on More Than $15 Billion KPN Bid Funds prepare to conduct due diligence with goal of submitting formal offer for Dutch communications-services provider this spring
2021-04-07 17:00:00 World U.K. Limits AstraZeneca Covid-19 Vaccine to Over-30s Amid Blood-Clot Concerns European regulator finds link to rare blood clots, but says vaccine’s benefits still outweigh risks
2021-04-07 16:46:00 Fed Officials: No Urgency to Pare Monetary Policy Support Chicago Fed’s Evans says it will take some time for price pressures to sustainably hit the central bank’s 2% inflation target
2021-04-07 16:42:00 Politics Biden Urges Broad View of Infrastructure in Pushing $2.3 Trillion Package Congressional Republicans call for narrower focus on things like building roads, bridges and airports
2021-04-07 16:38:00 World Biden Administration to Restore Aid to Palestinians The move reverses the Trump administration’s decision to cut funds
2021-04-07 15:21:00 Economy Fed Minutes Show Expectations for Stronger Economic Recovery Officials raised their forecasts for economic growth and inflation, reiterating at their March meeting plans for continued policy support
2021-04-07 15:12:00 Logistics Report AutoStore’s SoftBank Backing to Spur Warehouse Robotics Expansion in Asia Company will join a growing stable of logistics technology businesses in the SoftBank portfolio
2021-04-07 13:24:00 Economy About The Wall Street Journal Economic Forecasting Survey
2021-04-07 13:00:00 CFO Journal General Mills CFO Looks to Reduce External Manufacturing Once Demand Levels Off Company signed up more contract manufacturers when the pandemic boosted demand
2021-04-07 12:04:00 CIO Journal Supreme Court Decision Affirms Open-Source’s Role in Modern Software Development But some experts say fair-use ruling permitting Google to copy code could make it harder for startups to innovate
2021-04-07 11:51:00 Arts How Bob Dylan and a Bogart Movie Inspired Al Stewart’s Rock Classic The singer talks about the influences behind the 1976 hit ‘Year of the Cat’—and why it was almost called ‘Horse of the Year’
2021-04-07 11:17:00 Markets Jamie Dimon Says JPMorgan Won’t Go Remote After the Pandemic Smaller group of employees to work under hybrid model, CEO says in annual shareholder letter
2021-04-07 11:10:00 World Egypt, Ethiopia Tensions Escalate as Nile Dam Talks Falter The latest negotiations between the countries ended without a deal over Ethiopia’s hydroelectric dam
2021-04-07 11:09:00 Economy Crowded Ports, Weather Dented U.S. Exports in February Trade deficit widened to record $71.1 billion as exports fell 2.6% to $187.3 billion
2021-04-07 11:00:00 Deals Patreon’s Valuation Triples to $4 Billion as Platform Draws Creators, Fans Online company raises $155 million in latest round, led by new investor Tiger Global Management
2021-04-07 10:11:00 Life & Arts Luxury Lodges Designed for Outdoor Adventures From North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains to cowboy country in Wyoming, ambitious hoteliers are reimagining fusty lakeside camps and no-frills dude ranches to accommodate more discerning nature enthusiasts
2021-04-07 09:34:00 Television How Sharon Horgan Aims to Make a Global Audience Laugh With ‘Frank of Ireland’ A new Amazon series is the latest comedy headed to U.S. audiences from the co-writer of ‘Catastrophe’
2021-04-07 09:03:00 Economy How Bidenomics Seeks to Remake the Economic Consensus Declaring end to neoliberalism, new thinkers play down constraints of deficits, inflation and incentives
2021-04-07 09:00:00 Tech iPhone Apps Asking to Track You? Answers to Your iOS 14.5 Privacy Questions Ad-tracking permission pop-ups are coming to nearly every app on your iPhone. Here’s why—and what’s happening behind the scenes.
2021-04-07 08:56:00 Life & Arts The Key to Safe Airflow for Planes Before Takeoff The best way airlines can prevent coronavirus spread on board is through their ventilation systems—but on the ground they don’t always run at full power
2021-04-07 08:54:00 Markets China’s Cosco Shipping Expects Profit Surge as Industry Flourishes Freight rates have increased, with shipping groups reaping the benefits of earlier capacity cuts combined with stronger-than-expected demand
2021-04-07 07:14:00 Business Shell Warns Oil-Price Gains Partly Offset by Hit From Texas Freeze Energy giant says higher oil prices will buoy first-quarter results but Texas weather caused $200 million hit
2021-04-07 06:00:00 CMO Today Intel Backs Video Data Firm Offering an Ad-Targeting Alternative to Cookies Iris.TV, which has raised an $18 million Series B, provides information on video content to allow marketers to target ads based on contextual relevance
2021-04-07 05:30:00 Pro VC Industry News Tennis Star Sloane Stephens Brings Her Competitive Ethos to Startup Investing The 2017 U.S. Open champion, who is backing an energy-bar startup, says she has high hopes for companies owned by women of color
2021-04-06 20:50:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Former Gunvor Employee Pleads Guilty in Ecuadorean Bribery Scheme Raymond Kohut pleads guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering
2021-04-06 19:26:00 Tech Was My Facebook Data Leaked? What You Need to Know The publishing of personal information of more than 500 million users of the social-media platform illustrates the long impact that hacks can present
2021-04-06 18:17:00 Opinion Partisanship Is Biden’s Way to the Highway An infrastructure bill some Republicans can support would help Democrats in 2022.
2021-04-06 18:16:00 Opinion Joe Biden at His Worst A combination of flattery and racial bullying convinces him he has a mandate.
2021-04-06 18:14:00 Opinion The Democrats Are Stuck in 1964 By constantly invoking the ghost of Jim Crow, they treat black voters as if they were helpless children.
2021-04-06 17:42:00 Markets Central Banks Retreat From U.S. Dollar Dollar’s share of global reserves has decreased to lowest level since 1995
2021-04-06 17:38:00 Markets Coinbase Earned More in First Quarter Than in All of 2020 Cryptocurrency company reaped rewards from bitcoin rally as it looks ahead to next week’s planned direct listing
2021-04-06 16:57:00 World Covid-19 Variant From Brazil Has Taken Hold in Canada The province of British Columbia is struggling to contain the variant, which is more contagious and is sending younger patients to hospitals
2021-04-06 16:27:00 Opinion The Peace of Trump The former president’s legacy overseas may outlast the domestic effort to silence him.
2021-04-06 16:05:00 CFO Journal Corteva Names Finance Veteran to CFO Role Dave Anderson will succeed current finance chief Gregory Friedman this month
2021-04-06 15:15:00 Life & Arts Can’t Take a Vacation? Airport-Inspired Menswear for Eager Travelers While pandemic restrictions have grounded most jet-setters, brands like Louis Vuitton and Balmain are suddenly showing clothes inspired by travel, not with references to destinations but to the mere idea of flying...anywhere
2021-04-06 14:54:00 World Dutch Police Arrest Suspect in Van Gogh Heist The stolen artwork, ‘Parish Garden in Nuenen, Spring,’ hasn’t been located
2021-04-06 14:22:00 Economy IMF Lifts Global Growth Forecast for 2021 to 6% International lender cites stimulus spending in advanced economies, accelerating Covid-19 vaccine rollouts
2021-04-06 14:00:00 Business Self-Driving Cars Could Save Many Lives. But Mental Roadblocks Stand in the Way. People’s demands for safety may be unreasonably high. Here’s why.
2021-04-06 13:12:00 World Nigeria Prison Attack Frees 1,800 Inmates Raid by armed gunmen raises fears a new insurrection is building in a majority-Christian part of the country
2021-04-06 12:23:00 Tech Facebook, Apple and Niantic Bet People Are Ready for Augmented-Reality Glasses Companies are spending to overcome technical and ethical hurdles as they try to bring the personal computer of tomorrow to people’s faces
2021-04-06 12:00:00 Business How Can Government Attract the AI Talent It Needs? Artificial intelligence can make the government more efficient and effective. But first, it has to hire the people who can make it all happen.
2021-04-06 10:19:00 Life & Arts Does a Real Personal Trainer Beat One on Your Phone? Workout coaches and trainees debate whether new individualized apps that connect users to remote trainers can replace real-life guidance for good
2021-04-06 10:00:00 Business The People in This Medical Research Are Fake. The Innovations Are Real. ‘Synthetic-data technology,’ by creating artificial patient populations, has the potential to speed up innovations without compromising privacy
2021-04-06 09:00:00 Tech Sonos Roam Review: Portable Tunes for the Outdoors, Alexa for the Shower The $169 Sonos Roam can play music over AirPlay 2 or Bluetooth, with Alexa or Google Assistant voice control. It’s battery powered and water-resistant. And it weighs less than a pound.
2021-04-06 08:17:00 Business Amazon Is the Target of Small-Business Antitrust Campaign National coalition of small businesses to push for more-forceful antitrust measures, saying Amazon competes unfairly
2021-04-06 08:00:00 Business Meet the Highest Paid CEO in S&P 500, Paycom’s $211 Million Man Chad Richison’s equity award could wind up worth more than $2 billion over several years; Paycom says he only gets it if the stock more than doubles
2021-04-06 07:10:00 World With Recent Covid-19 Wave Under Control, Chinese Consumers Spend on Travel Over three-day tomb-sweeping holiday, travel was back up to pre-coronavirus levels by some metrics
2021-04-06 06:19:00 Business BP Signals Recovery for Oil Industry in Wake of Pandemic Energy giant says strong trading results and higher oil prices are likely to help it hit a debt-reduction target early, paving the way for share buybacks
2021-04-06 06:00:00 CMO Today Amazon Surpasses 10% of U.S. Digital Ad Market Share Company chips away at market leader Google as its search ad business continues to grow
2021-04-05 17:30:00 Opinion Hunter Biden Undecided on Laptop On a book tour, the president’s son offers dubious answers to questions about the family business.
2021-04-05 16:26:00 Markets U.S. Stocks Climb to Records on Signs of an Economic Rebound Data on the services sector show improvement
2021-04-05 14:52:00 World Japan Calls on China to Improve Conditions for Uyghurs, Hong Kong Unusually strong criticism from Tokyo comes ahead of Japanese prime minister’s trip to Washington
2021-04-05 12:01:00 Markets The Pandemic Year’s Top Stock-Fund Managers In a chaotic period for mutual funds, Morgan Stanley’s Dennis Lynch was No. 1, steering his fund to a 273% gain for the 12 months
2021-04-05 10:00:00 Politics China Looms Large in Biden Infrastructure Plan Latest example of how a long competition with China is beginning to color all manner of American policy moves
2021-04-05 09:00:00 Business Indeed CEO Says Finding a Job Should Be Easier Chris Hyams says the pandemic has changed how employers and workers find each other and explains the appeal of an unusual resume
2021-04-05 05:30:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Reports on Corporate Ethics Hotlines Fell in 2020 By contrast, reports of potential wrongdoing to government agencies rose last year
2021-04-04 17:29:00 Economy Nations Begin to Shape Post-Covid-19 Economy Amid Diverging Fortunes Top economic officials gather virtually to consider how to help the poorest, most vulnerable populations
2021-04-04 15:00:00 Economy Economy Week Ahead: Services, Trade, Inflation The International Monetary Fund is preparing to raise its forecasts for the global economy in 2021 and 2022
2021-04-04 07:47:00 World Hong Kong Revives Move to Reduce Corporate Transparency Now That Opposition Is Gone Officials promote privacy protection as behind move to curb access to registers, but critics say it would protect interests of political and business elite
2021-04-04 06:00:00 Economy U.S.’s Long Drought in Worker Productivity Could Be Ending Pandemic drives businesses to ramp up investment in labor-saving technology
2021-04-03 12:00:00 Real Estate The Housing Market Is Crazier Than It’s Been Since 2006 Limited inventory, low interest rates and bidding wars are driving prices sky-high. ‘It’s just taken a little bit of the joy out of the process.’
2021-04-03 12:00:00 Life & Arts Corsets Are Back, Thanks to ‘Bridgerton’ and Party Fever WFH comfort put the bra on life support, so why are women from Megan Thee Stallion to Miami Beach moms swapping sweatshirts for corsets? An investigation into the counterintuitive spring trend.
2021-04-03 09:00:00 Tech Kid-Shaming on TikTok: When Parents Are the Online Bullies Joke or no joke, child-punishment videos are a growing genre online, and child-safety experts say it’s not OK
2021-04-03 08:53:00 Politics Biden’s Infrastructure Package Is Designed to Boost Unions Proposal aims to lift wages and includes many labor priorities, which business and GOP critics say would raise project costs, limiting increase in economic growth
2021-04-03 08:49:00 Markets Pioneer’s $6.4 Billion Deal for Smaller Shale Rival Signals Life in Oil Patch The purchase of DoublePoint Energy is the largest for a privately held shale driller since 2011, underscoring recent momentum as oil tops $60 a barrel
2021-04-03 08:41:00 World Taiwan Train Derails, Killing More Than 50 People Crash in tunnel with nearly 500 aboard is island’s deadliest rail incident in decades
2021-04-03 08:00:00 Life & Arts Dog Fashion for Your Pandemic Puppy Goes Luxury With pet ownership and interest in dog fashion on the rise, new brands including Los Angeles-based Pagerie are zeroing in on the high-end canine accessories market
2021-04-02 12:56:00 Economy U.S. Added 916,000 Jobs in March as Hiring Accelerated Unemployment rate fell to 6%; jobs growth appears set to take off
2021-04-02 10:00:00 Tech Facebook’s Algorithm Powers What You See. Here Are New Tools to Give You Some Control. New controls from Facebook aim to make it easier for us to control what’s in our feeds but they still preserve the social network’s main algorithmic highway
2021-04-02 05:30:00 Economy Red-Hot U.S. Economy a Mixed Blessing For Rest of World Early evidence shows that the exit from the pandemic could be greatly lopsided
2021-04-01 17:33:00 Politics Supreme Court Upholds Rollback of Federal Restrictions on Media Ownership Justices reject arguments that FCC didn’t give diversity concerns enough weight
2021-04-01 15:08:00 Markets OPEC, Allies Agree to Boost Output, Betting on Demand Rebound Producers to add more than two million barrels a day in coming months despite rising Covid-19 cases in U.S., fresh lockdowns in Europe
2021-03-31 16:57:00 Economy Memo to Biden: Stimulus Is Easy. Investment Is Hard. The president’s infrastructure plan could boost long-term growth—if targeted effectively
2021-03-31 15:35:00 China Chinese Propaganda Officials Celebrate Social-Media Attacks on H&M in Countering Forced-Labor Allegations To blunt Western pressure over cotton from Xinjiang, Beijing looks to apply lessons from Hong Kong protests
2021-03-31 13:03:00 World Black Cube Was Paid ‘Large Amount of Money’ to Improperly Discredit Judge, Court Rules Israeli investigative group was hired by private-equity firm for effort code-named ‘Project Maple Tree’ to embarrass Canadian judge, Ontario court finds
2021-03-31 10:21:00 Economy Boston Fed Staffers Offer Road Map in Digital-Dollar Research Effort Researchers plan to make the code for a potential digital currency available for public examination later this year
2021-03-30 19:38:00 World Brother of Honduras President Sentenced to Life in Drug-Trafficking Case Trial evidence showed that Juan Antonio ‘Tony’ Hernández had smuggled some 185 tons of cocaine to the U.S.
2021-03-30 17:25:00 World Brazil’s Military Chiefs Quit as Covid-19 Pandemic Pressures Government High-level resignations follow months of tensions over Bolsonaro’s efforts to garner political support from armed forces
2021-03-30 08:14:00 World Canada Looks to Immigration to Boost Economic Recovery Government’s plan is most aggressive among large advanced economies, but targets could be hard to meet
2021-03-30 07:32:00 Markets ViacomCBS Needed to Unwind Media giant had outrun even other overhyped streaming names
2021-03-30 06:43:00 World China Used Twitter, Facebook More Than Ever Last Year for Xinjiang Propaganda Efforts to reshape online narratives around Uyghur Muslims come as Beijing faces pressure over policies, including calls to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics
2021-03-27 16:34:00 World As Islamist Siege in Mozambique Drags On, Natural Gas Project Scrambles to Evacuate U.S. says deadly insurgency is an Islamic State franchise in region where $20 billion foreign investment project is led by Total
2021-03-26 17:31:00 Monarch Bets $600 Million That Bankrupt Travel Assets Will Recover Distressed-debt investor nears acquisitions of hotels as well as retail space in New York bus station
2021-03-23 08:00:00 Real Estate Israeli Bond Proposal Threatens to Curb Borrowing by U.S. Real-Estate Firms Security authority may add new hurdle to a market where U.S. developers have raised billions of dollars
2021-03-19 07:00:00 CIO Journal Big Tech Helps Set Standards for Covid-19 Vaccine Verification Microsoft, Salesforce contribute to software framework for apps that provide digital proof of vaccination to be used for travel, returning to work
2021-03-16 06:00:00 Pro PE Commentary Analysis Healthcare Sponsors Flocked to Public Markets in 2020: Bain Despite coronavirus pandemic upheaval, healthcare investors chose more public-market exits in 2020 than in previous years
2021-02-28 22:59:00 Arts 2021 Golden Globe Awards: The Winners Here is a list of the nominees and winners for the mostly virtual award ceremony that honors work in movies and television series
2021-02-28 22:54:00 Arts Chadwick Boseman’s Golden Globes Win for ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Opens His Likely Run to the Oscars The ‘Black Panther’ actor who died last year won the Globe for best actor in a motion picture drama
2021-02-28 22:41:00 Arts Golden Globes 2021 Moments Feature Glamour and Glitches Honors go to an assortment of stars from Emma Corrin in ‘The Crown’ to Jason Sudeikis’s Ted Lasso and Daniel Kaluuya in ‘Judas and the Black Messiah.’
2021-02-28 20:54:00 Arts Golden Globes Fashion: Even With Minimal Red Carpet, Glamour Returned Some nominees and presenters put on the glitz for the Golden Globes, dressing up in gowns and formal outfits even though much of the awards ceremony unfolded online
2021-02-28 20:00:00 Life & Arts How to Decode Office Body Language While Working From Home Learn the tricks to reading the nonverbal cues of your bosses and co-workers, from expressions in tiny Zoom windows to email punctuation
2021-02-28 19:00:00 Deals Rocket Lab Nears Deal to Merge With Vector SPAC Deal, which could be completed by Monday, would take Rocket Lab public, valuing it at $4.1 billion, sources say
2021-02-28 18:24:00 Markets Credit Suisse Looks to Reduce Ties to SoftBank-Backed Greensill Capital The Swiss bank has grown concerned about the speciality finance firm’s exposure to a single client
2021-02-28 18:18:00 Business Twilio Nears Deal to Invest Up to $750M in Syniverse, Sources Say The Twilio deal, with commercial agreement, expected Monday, according to sources
2021-02-28 18:00:00 Opinion Voting Rights at the Supreme Court The Justices have a rare chance to clarify federal election law.
2021-02-28 18:00:00 Deals CAE Nears Deal to Buy L3Harris’s Military-Training Business Agreement valuing the division at $1.05 billion is expected on Monday
2021-02-28 17:59:00 Opinion Andrew Cuomo in the Dock A second former aide accuses the Governor of sexual harassment.
2021-02-28 17:58:00 Opinion Plan B for a $15 Minimum Wage It’s not a mandate—it’s a tax. At least that’s Bernie Sanders’s pitch.
2021-02-28 17:56:00 Opinion Erasing Hong Kong’s Democrats China’s agents charge nearly the entire opposition under a sedition law.
2021-02-28 17:21:00 Business McKinsey’s Leadership Vote Reveals Cracks in Its Global Partnership Settlement on work with opioids makers prompted complaints from overseas partners; tension built over the firm’s changes
2021-02-28 16:34:00 Opinion The CIA Can Help Spot the Next Pandemic Intel agencies and public-health officials need to work together against security risks like Covid.
2021-02-28 16:33:00 Opinion Beyond Left and Right On the one hand, mixed dominance makes me who I am. On the other hand, I don’t know how or why.
2021-02-28 16:32:00 Opinion Prelude to a State Pension Bailout Rescuing multiemployer plans is unwise and signals a willingness to do the same with failing state and local funds.
2021-02-28 16:31:00 World Iran Rejects Offer of Direct U.S. Nuclear Talks, Ratcheting Up Tension With West Rejection unlikely to kill off diplomacy but time seen running short ahead of Persian New Year, Iranian election
2021-02-28 16:30:00 Opinion Will Maduro’s Canary Sing? The dictator sweats while the U.S. seeks to extradite his indicted associate.
2021-02-28 16:28:00 Opinion Nasdaq Amends Its Diversity Plan We’ve listened to critics and made allowances for their needs and concerns.
2021-02-28 16:28:00 U.S. New York State Attorney General Seeks to Investigate Sexual-Harassment Accusations Against Cuomo Letitia James has asked governor’s office for a referral to open probe
2021-02-28 16:27:00 Books ‘The Anointed’ Review: Gentlemen Play a Ruffian’s Game The clubbiness of the white-shoe law firms was an outgrowth of a social elitism that sneered at competition as unseemly.
2021-02-28 16:06:00 Politics Covid-19 Relief Bill Heads to Senate as Democrats Face Emerging Divisions Senate leaders are preparing a backup plan to increase workers’ wages, but not all Democrats are yet sold on the idea
2021-02-28 16:03:00 Politics Biden Administration Urged to Penalize Saudi Crown Prince Over Khashoggi Killing Administration stopped short of punishing Mohammed bin Salman for his alleged role in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi
2021-02-28 15:18:00 World Israel to Vaccinate Palestinians Who Have Israeli Work Papers Program, approved Sunday by the nation’s political leaders, will begin in the coming days
2021-02-28 15:00:00 Economy Economy Week Ahead: Factories, Services and Employment U.S. jobless claims are expected to remain elevated in the week that ended Feb. 27
2021-02-28 14:43:00 Life & Arts How to Watch the Golden Globes 2021: Time, Date, Streaming and Nominees The 78th Golden Globe awards will be hosted by bicoastal hosts Amy Poehler and Tina Fey with no shortage of star-studded moments
2021-02-28 12:44:00 Opinion The Federal Reserve Is Financing Future Debt Problems The Fed’s creative accounting combined with profligate federal spending won’t end the pain for Americans.
2021-02-28 12:43:00 Opinion Trump Lost, but He Greatly Boosted the GOP Many voters came out solely for President Trump, and the down-ballot candidates on the Republican ticket reaped the rewards.
2021-02-28 12:41:00 Opinion Could Long-Covid Patients Shed Light on ME/CFS? The similarities between long-haul Covid-19 and ME/CFS are stunning.
2021-02-28 12:06:00 Opinion Academic Freedom Is Withering Surveys of faculty opinion show the growing extent of political discrimination and cancel culture.
2021-02-28 12:04:00 Opinion Earth to Techies: Let’s Map It All Imaging the world down to the meter will soon spur a navigation breakthrough.
2021-02-28 12:00:00 Deals Herbalife to Name Three New Directors as Icahn Era Ends Two current Herbalife directors don’t plan to stand for re-election
2021-02-28 12:00:00 World China Got Its Economy Growing Again, but a Shortfall in Babies Will Be Harder to Fix Some economists say a shrinking workforce threatens China’s chances of overtaking the U.S. as the world’s largest economy
2021-02-28 12:00:00 Markets Goldman Consumer Head Is Leaving to Run Walmart Fintech Omer Ismail, who helped build Goldman’s consumer-banking business from scratch, will take on a similar task at Walmart
2021-02-28 11:00:00 Tech Golden Globe Nominee Andra Day on Billie Holiday and Film-Set Essentials The R&B singer-turned-actress shares the regimens she follows and gadgets she relies on to stay creative and healthy
2021-02-28 11:00:00 New York New York City Invests in Rapid Covid-19 Test to Aid Economic Recovery Team from Columbia University is front-runner in a competition to develop an at-home antigen test
2021-02-28 11:00:00 Politics Alex Lasry, a Wealthy Democrat, Is Targeted by Both Parties in Wisconsin Senate Race Contest for the seat of Republican Sen. Ron Johnson—who hasn’t said if he’s running again—is watched closely
2021-02-28 10:23:00 U.S. New York City Small Businesses to Get Refunds on Fines Under Council Bill New legislation would ease code-violation enforcement and provide civil-penalty relief for restaurants, laundromats, other businesses
2021-02-28 10:00:00 Economy U.S. Enlists Allies to Counter China’s Technology Push Combined efforts in semiconductors, artificial intelligence seen as way to thwart Beijing’s ambitions
2021-02-28 10:00:00 Hedge Funds Geode, Fidelity’s Index-Fund Manager, Closes Hedge-Fund Business After Derivatives Bets Implode Geode Capital Management’s largest private fund lost about $250 million as wagers on stock-market volatility turned sour last year
2021-02-28 09:00:00 Business Macy’s, Gap, Neiman Marcus Will Let You Buy Now, Pay Later Retailers add new payment options to attract younger shoppers; ‘If we didn’t have it, they might have gone elsewhere’
2021-02-28 09:00:00 Tech Bluetooth Noise-Canceling Headphones and Earbuds From $50 to $130: Good Sound With a Trade-Off Four Bluetooth options from Monoprice and Anker’s Soundcore brand produce decent sound—but the noise cancellation is clearly second rate
2021-02-28 09:00:00 Markets Go East, Young Man: China Needs to Set Its Labor Force Free To keep growth high in the years ahead, China must loosen up controls on internal migration—before it is too late
2021-02-28 08:00:00 Markets Investors Worry the Fed’s Fast Driving Means It’ll Have to Hit the Brakes Volatility in stock, bond markets this past week indicates inflation concerns are rising
2021-02-28 08:00:00 Markets Bond-Market Tumult Puts ‘Lower for Longer’ in the Crosshairs A recent wave of selling drove up the yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which helps set borrowing costs from corporate debt to mortgages, to its highest level since the pandemic began
2021-02-28 07:19:00 Business New Chauffeur-Hailing Service Seeks to Challenge Uber, Lyft in City Rides German upstart Blacklane bets on virus-conscious business traveler
2021-02-28 07:00:00 Life & Arts When Should You Think Twice About Salary Negotiation? Young workers have had it drilled into them that they should push for more pay—here’s how to avoid hidden pitfalls while working to strike a deal
2021-02-28 07:00:00 Politics At CPAC, Trump to Assert Dominance of GOP, Take Aim at Biden on Immigration, Foreign Policy Former president expected to criticize Republicans who sided against him in impeachment fight
2021-02-28 05:30:00 Business Pay Cuts, Taxes, Child Care: What Another Year of Remote Work Will Look Like Facebook considered tracking its employees. Lyft is making some workers move before April. Here’s how big companies are wrestling with thorny work-from-home issues.
2021-02-28 05:30:00 Business How Europe Became the World’s Biggest Electric-Car Market—and Why It Might Not Last Subsidies and more choices have helped spur consumer demand, but China serves as a warning that such momentum can be fleeting
2021-02-28 05:29:00 World Dozens in Hong Kong’s Opposition Charged Under Law Imposed by Beijing All of the political figures charged participated in primaries held by the pro-democracy camp in July
2021-02-28 03:51:00 Economy China’s Factory Activity Falls to Weakest Level in Nine Months Official gauge of factory activity retreated more than expected as manufacturers suspended production during the Lunar New Year holiday
2021-02-27 22:04:00 U.S. Andrew Cuomo Requests Outside Review After Second Former Aide’s Sexual-Harassment Accusations Allegations come as New York governor also faces probe over nursing home Covid-19 deaths
2021-02-27 20:15:00 Business J&J Covid-19 Vaccine Authorized for Use in U.S. The shot is the third cleared by U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the first requiring just one dose
2021-02-27 15:01:00 Tech SolarWinds Hack Pits Microsoft Against Dell, IBM Over How Companies Store Data Microsoft argues the cloud offers more protection; rivals point to the need of firms to hold, access their information on-premise
2021-02-27 12:03:00 Politics Biden Sees ‘No Time to Waste,’ Urges Senate to Pass $1.9 Trillion Covid-19 Stimulus Package After the House passed the legislation, the president says, ‘If we act quickly, decisively and boldly, we can finally get ahead of this virus’
2021-02-27 12:00:00 Personal Board of Directors Where Nextdoor’s CEO Looks for Neighborly Advice Sarah Friar relies on family and friends as the foundation for her own social network
2021-02-27 12:00:00 Life & Arts Soothing Winter Soup Recipes Soups can comfort on many levels. In these recipes, the deftly deployed spices bring heat, nuance, even antioxidants.
2021-02-27 12:00:00 Tech What’s Missing in the Electric-Vehicle Revolution: Enough Places to Plug In As dozens of new battery-powered, plug-in car models come to market, roadtrippers who bought anything but a Tesla are discovering that America’s charging infrastructure isn’t ready for prime time
2021-02-27 11:17:00 Markets Warren Buffett Defends Berkshire Hathaway’s $25 Billion in Buybacks The Omaha conglomerate’s fourth-quarter profits rose nearly 23%
2021-02-27 11:00:00 Life & Arts How Harry Styles, Verzuz and Streaming Changed the Merch Business After the pandemic killed music tours and their opportunities to sell concert T-shirts and other products, the industry pivoted to streaming. For some artists, that’s only expanded the merch market.
2021-02-27 10:26:00 Life & Arts How to Watch the Golden Globes 2021: Time, Date and Nominees The 78th Golden Globe awards will be hosted by bicoastal hosts Amy Poehler and Tina Fey with no shortage of star-studded moments
2021-02-27 10:00:00 Life & Arts Some People Buy Vintage Corvettes or Mustangs. He Collects Edsels. Hank Davis owns 14 cars from Ford’s famously doomed 1950s brand maligned for looking like an ‘Oldsmobile sucking a lemon’
2021-02-27 10:00:00 World Cold War-Era Defense System to Get Upgrade to Counter Russia, China The U.S. and Canada move to modernize a missile-surveillance system in the Arctic that officials say is outdated
2021-02-27 09:00:00 Tech Declutter the Filing Cabinet: What to Save, Move to the Cloud or Shred With tax season under way, now is a good time to scan and purge those old files
2021-02-27 08:58:00 World Nigerian Schoolboys Freed as Search for Abducted Girls Continues The 42 people released, including 27 schoolboys, had been taken last week from their boarding school
2021-02-27 07:00:00 Music Review ‘Road to the Sun’ by Pat Metheny Review: A Bright Fusion of Genres The jazz guitarist experiments with classical composition on an album with the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet and Jason Vieaux.
2021-02-27 07:00:00 Art Review ‘The Kimono in Print: 300 Years of Japanese Design’ Review: Clothes as Canvas The Worcester Art Museum highlights the iconic garment and its influence on three centuries of printmaking.
2021-02-27 06:00:00 Life & Arts Proper Form and Other Workout Advice for The Wall Street Journal Fitness Challenge Experts answer readers’ questions about the right technique for push-ups and other exercises.
2021-02-26 23:01:00 Politics Supreme Court Sides With California Churches on Covid-19 Restrictions Order blocks Santa Clara County from including churches in ban on indoor gatherings
2021-02-26 21:17:00 Business McDonald’s Considers Partial Sale of Digital Startup Dynamic Yield Fast-food chain intends to keep the part of the firm that services its thousands of drive-throughs
2021-02-26 21:04:00 Markets Fidelity’s Charitable Arm Wins in Hedge-Fund Founders’ Lawsuit Judge says Fidelity didn’t break promises or make negligent stock sales after donation tied to tax break
2021-02-26 20:39:00 U.S. Nevada Governor Lays Out Plans for a City Built on Blockchain Gov. Steve Sisolak proposes letting companies develop ‘innovation zones’ with their own cities and governments to boost state economy
2021-02-26 19:52:00 Business Home Depot, GameStop, Johnson & Johnson: Stocks That Defined the Week Here are seven major companies whose stocks moved on the week’s news
2021-02-26 19:35:00 Politics Biden Offers Words of Comfort and Aid to Texans After Winter Storms Calling 2020 one of the most painful years in American history, the president cautioned that the coronavirus pandemic is far from over
2021-02-26 19:16:00 Pro PE Limited Partners Oaktree Capital Draws Activist Ire Over Evictions An activist group claims evictions are occurring at Oaktree properties despite a federal moratorium during the coronavirus pandemic
2021-02-26 18:48:00 Markets NYSE Moves to Delist Chinese Oil Company Trading in Cnooc will be halted March 9 as Biden administration lets Trump order targeting certain Chinese firms stand
2021-02-26 18:30:00 Opinion Joe Biden’s Mixed Iran Messages He orders a strike against Iran-backed militias but makes concessions to Tehran.
2021-02-26 18:27:00 Opinion The Khashoggi Sanction The U.S. fingers MBS for the killing and downgrades U.S.-Saudi ties.
2021-02-26 18:26:00 Opinion California’s Climate Contradictions New evidence that green policies punish the poor and subsidize the rich.
2021-02-26 17:55:00 Opinion If Nice Guys Finish Last, How Could Trump Have Lost? At the very least, outright nastiness seems to be a strike against a politician.
2021-02-26 17:55:00 Opinion What Altered the Public’s Taste for Lies? Donald Trump is not the only one who abandoned a prudent reluctance to be caught fibbing.
2021-02-26 17:54:00 Books ‘A Beginner’s Guide to America’ Review: Welcome to a New World Newcomers encounter pleasing surprises, troubling flaws—and, not least, the suspicions of previous newcomers.
2021-02-26 17:53:00 Opinion Hackers May Be Coming for Your City’s Water Supply More digitized and connected than ever, the nation’s infrastructure is vulnerable to cyberattack.
2021-02-26 17:51:00 Books Politics: ‘Foretelling the End of Capitalism’ Review From Mill to Marx and on to Keynes, a history of misdiagnosis.
2021-02-26 17:04:00 Life & Arts How John Geddert’s Coaching Came to Be Seen as a Crime The former U.S. Olympic gymnastics coach, who died by suicide on Thursday, was once lauded, and then criminally charged, for his treatment of athletes.
2021-02-26 16:58:00 Life & Arts Golden Globes 2021: Who Are the Nominees, How to Watch and What You Need to Know The 78th Golden Globe awards will be hosted by bicoastal hosts Amy Poehler and Tina Fey with no shortage of star-studded moments
2021-02-26 16:53:00 Arts Golden Globe Awards 2021: Snubs, Drama Behind the Scenes and How Much of It Actually Matters The ceremony is largely virtual this year, but that’s not all you need to know about Hollywood’s rowdiest awards show
2021-02-26 16:45:00 Business GameStop’s New Mission: Level Up to Its Lofty Share Price Videogame retailer is under pressure to deliver a turnaround, as more gamers download online instead of buying in brick-and-mortar stores
2021-02-26 16:44:00 U.S. Arrests of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children at Southern Border Surge Government projects about 9,000 children will be taken into custody by the end of February, complicating Biden administration’s task
2021-02-26 16:40:00 Business How Reddit Renegades Helped Theater Giant AMC Avoid a Tragic Ending The world’s largest chain of cinemas found some unlikely allies in its quest to stay afloat through the pandemic
2021-02-26 16:36:00 Politics Biden’s New Energy Secretary Eyes Big Investment to Boost Clean Technologies, Harden Electric Grid Jennifer Granholm looks to reinvigorate a $40 billion energy loan program left untouched under the Trump administration
2021-02-26 16:34:00 Markets U.S. Treasury Yields Stabilize The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note settled at 1.459%, down from 1.513%
2021-02-26 16:27:00 Opinion Rush Limbaugh Gave Voice to the Unheard In today’s world there is little opportunity for such a free exchange of ideas. In part, Rush Limbaugh’s durable popularity can be traced to that reality.
2021-02-26 16:23:00 U.S. Suspect Charged With Hate Crime in Alleged Stabbing of Asian Man in Manhattan Police officials say the suspect might have been suffering from mental illness
2021-02-26 16:20:00 Politics U.S. to Impose Sweeping Rule Aimed at China Technology Threats Biden administration plans to let the Trump-era rule on technology purchases and deals take effect, despite U.S. business objections about its scope
2021-02-26 16:20:00 Politics Senate Democrats Look For Back-Up Plan To Raise Minimum Wage Through Taxes Proponents craft a plan of tax penalties and incentives to prompt pay increases after parliamentarian rejects wage hike in relief plan
2021-02-26 16:04:00 Business United Airlines Agrees to Pay $49 Million to Resolve Mail-Related Charges Justice Department had accused the carrier of submitting false data showing it delivered mail in a timely manner
2021-02-26 15:55:00 Politics Saudi Crown Prince Approved Operation That Killed Khashoggi, U.S. Report Says U.S. officials based their assessment of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on his control of decision-making in the kingdom and the direct involvement of members of his protective detail
2021-02-26 15:51:00 Opinion Gene Editing’s Vast, Double-Edged Potential CRISPR technology should be limited exclusively to healing genetic diseases in breathing humans.
2021-02-26 15:50:00 Opinion Grand Old Auto Names Merged Into the Unknown Successful global companies merged and exchanged many renowned brands including for Stellantis, a name that gives no clue to its product or biographical history.
2021-02-26 15:28:00 Politics Democrats Try to Save Worker-Pay Rise in $1.9 Trillion Covid Aid Bill House prepares to pass its version of the bill after setback on wage issue from Senate parliamentarian
2021-02-26 15:14:00 Opinion The American Dream Is Alive on Mars Growing up in India, Vandi Verma admired Spock on ‘Star Trek’ and wanted to be an engineer. Now she drives the NASA rover exploring the red planet.
2021-02-26 15:12:00 Opinion Remember the Good Old Days? No Need to Feel Ashamed If You Do Nostalgia can bring comfort and meaning, even inspiration. It’s about the future more than the past.
2021-02-26 15:08:00 Life & Arts Former Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler and Partner Sell WNBA’s Atlanta Dream New ownership group, including real-estate executives and former star player Renee Montgomery, buys Dream. Players had called for Loeffler’s ouster.
2021-02-26 15:00:00 Tech Tech Startups’ New Million-Dollar Question: Do We Really Need an Office? Some entrepreneurs says they’re better off building their businesses entirely in the cloud—for now, at least
2021-02-26 14:52:00 World Russian Diplomats Flee North Korea by Hand-Powered Rail Cart Stuck in the hermit kingdom since North Korea sealed its borders due to the coronavirus, Russian diplomats found an imaginative way to get home
2021-02-26 14:48:00 Masterpiece A Simply Superb Suite Erik Satie’s ‘Gymnopédies,’ all composed in 1888, have had an impact on the music of the 20th century and today that belies their modest scale
2021-02-26 14:41:00 World U.S. Airstrikes in Syria Hit Iranian Supply Network on Iraq’s Border The strike was in response to a rocket attack earlier this month on a U.S. air base in northern Iraq
2021-02-26 14:30:00 Markets Cinemark Shines Without the Drama Movie-theater chain has stayed out of the meme-stock spotlight that has glared on rival AMC
2021-02-26 14:23:00 Politics Republican Civil War Over Trump? Not at CPAC As Republicans in Washington debate the former president’s role in the party, many GOP rising stars, activists and voters have made up their minds
2021-02-26 14:13:00 Markets Robinhood in Talks to Settle Finra Probes Into Options-Trading Practices, Outages Stock-trading app says in filing it is also being examined by the SEC, states
2021-02-26 14:00:00 Life & Arts A New Life for Old Shipwrecks Artist Alexis Rockman creates vividly realistic pictures of doomed vessels from history and mythology.
2021-02-26 14:00:00 Opinion The Sound of Liberty in Cuba A new challenge to the Marxist regime.
2021-02-26 13:56:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Baker Hughes Says It Faces Sanctions-Related SEC Probe Energy company’s involvement in projects impacted by U.S. sanctions is under investigation
2021-02-26 13:49:00 Life & Arts Is It Safe to Travel Again? Your Coronavirus Questions Answered A Q&A for anyone confused about traveling right now. The latest news on travel restrictions at home and abroad, Covid-19 tests, how to stay healthy on the road and what you need to know about flying
2021-02-26 13:37:00 World Yellen Removes Obstacle to Global Corporate-Tax Deal U.S. drops Trump-era proposal opposed by European nations seeking higher taxes on technology companies
2021-02-26 13:31:00 Business Recorded Music Revenue Hits $12 Billion in 2020 Amid Pandemic Streaming Boom Streaming accounted for 83% of revenue, with subscriptions, social and fitness app use on the rise
2021-02-26 13:28:00 Markets Warren Buffett’s Annual Letter to Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Is About to Land Investors on Saturday will be looking for insights on the U.S. economy and markets amid the pandemic
2021-02-26 12:15:00 Markets Americans of All Stripes Are Flush With Cash Savings rates have spiked and many American households are sitting on large cash balances
2021-02-26 12:06:00 Life & Arts Willie Nelson Can’t Wait to Get on the Road Again As he chafes against the pandemic’s restrictions, the country legend has released two albums while overseeing a radio channel and two cannabis companies
2021-02-26 12:04:00 Life & Arts The New Covid Vacation? Moving Abroad While the pandemic made most Americans housebound, it also inspired a number of people to move overseas indefinitely in search of greater freedom. Here’s how and where to do it.
2021-02-26 12:01:00 Markets Bitcoin Might Be Flying, but It’s No Longer Floating A cruise ship re-christened MS Satoshi was meant to be a floating blockchain hub, but insurance companies insisted on being paid in legal tender
2021-02-26 11:26:00 Business Birkenstock, Once a Fashion Faux Pas, Snapped Up by LVMH’s Arnault The deal is a sign of how far the luxury world has come around to the German sandal maker
2021-02-26 11:20:00 Life & Arts What We Know About Tiger Woods’s Injury and Car Accident The 45-year-old golf star suffered significant leg injuries after a crash near Los Angeles
2021-02-26 11:02:00 Markets Investors Piled into This Magical Money Machine. Now They’re Stuck. ‘Safe’ places to earn a good return are sometimes too good to be true. How come investors keep having to learn that lesson the hard way?
2021-02-26 11:01:00 CMO Today Ad During the Golden Globes to Show Turmoil of Postpartum and Breast-Feeding Moms The TV ad from Frida, a company that sells products for babies and new moms, tackles postpartum emotions and shows women struggling while breast-feeding and pumping
2021-02-26 11:00:00 Business What Happens When Facebook Slows the News Flow Residents of a remote island became collateral damage when the social-media giant decided to block its news feeds to Australia. ‘We’ve learned that we can’t just rely on Facebook.’
2021-02-26 10:58:00 Life & Arts Beyond Black History Month American society is more willing than ever before to speak out against racism and to embrace Black history, but we continue to make the fatal mistake of taking the concept of race itself for granted.
2021-02-26 10:34:00 World Canada Pension Fund CEO Mark Machin Resigns After U.A.E. Vaccine Trip Resignation comes after WSJ reported Machin’s travel to the U.A.E. for a Covid-19 shot
2021-02-26 10:26:00 Books ‘Klara and the Sun’ Review: Friends but Not Equals For a subtle creator of imagined worlds, the line between happy and unhappy endings can be hard to define.
2021-02-26 10:14:00 Books ‘Francis Bacon’ Review: Furious Beauty While he explored the pleasures of the flesh, Bacon’s art plumbed the terrors of the soul.
2021-02-26 10:12:00 Books ‘Ageless’ Review: The Long Run Deeper understanding of our genetic code unlocks an entirely new perspective on longevity.
2021-02-26 10:10:00 Books Mysteries: ‘Smoke’ Review An impulsive getaway lands Isaiah Quintabe in the middle of a fresh mystery.
2021-02-26 10:09:00 Books ‘The Barbizon’ Review: Landmark and Launching Pad A single-sex hotel was the means for generations of women to take part in a transforming Manhattan.
2021-02-26 10:08:00 Books Children’s Books: ‘Too Small Tola’ Review A collection of linked stories for young readers introduces a resourceful young Nigerian heroine.
2021-02-26 10:07:00 Books ‘The Saint and the Atheist’ Review: The Wrong Side of Truth A case for connecting St. Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre begins with a question of freedom.
2021-02-26 10:06:00 Books Science Fiction: ‘Into the Light’ Review David Weber and Chris Kennedy continue a tale of alien invasion meeting human (and vampire!) resistance.
2021-02-26 10:05:00 Books Five Best: Books on Reckonings With History Selected by Lauren Fox, the author, most recently, of the novel ‘Send for Me.’
2021-02-26 09:47:00 Business Nikola Internal Review Confirms Some Claims in Short Seller’s Report Electric-vehicle maker says video of truck moving was misleading but disputes Hindenburg’s conclusion that company is a fraud
2021-02-26 09:30:00 CFO Journal MoneyGram’s Decision to Halt Ripple Partnership Leaves CFO With Earnings Hole Money-transfer company earned fees for using Ripple’s digital-currency platform
2021-02-26 09:26:00 Politics How Rick Scott Is Trying to Bridge the Trump-McConnell Divide Florida senator seeks to ensure Republicans win back Senate majority in 2022 without choosing sides between the two leaders
2021-02-26 09:08:00 Markets DoorDash, Etsy, DraftKings, GameStop: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today The yield on 10-year Treasurys ticked down after hitting its highest level in a year
2021-02-26 09:00:00 Business Netflix to Spend $100 Million to Help Underrepresented Communities in Entertainment New study gives streaming service high marks in terms of gender equality in its films and movies
2021-02-26 08:38:00 Business Cyberattacks Cost Hospitals Millions During Covid-19 Attack at Universal Health Services cost the company $67 million last year
2021-02-26 08:17:00 World More Than 300 Girls Kidnapped in Latest Nigerian School Abduction Nighttime abduction is the latest in a rising tide of kidnappings that are becoming a lucrative industry
2021-02-26 08:14:00 Politics U.S., South Korea Near a Deal Over Cost of U.S. Forces on Peninsula Talks broke down over past U.S. pressure, but a new five-year agreement is close, officials say
2021-02-26 08:10:00 Politics Biden Visits Texas as Regulators Begin to Examine State’s Electric Grid Washington delivers emergency aid after winter storm knocked out power across Texas, but any federal moves to fix grid face obstacles
2021-02-26 08:00:00 Life & Arts Sprinter Sets a World Record—and It’s Not the Shoes Hurdler Grant Holloway wore regular track spikes in a record-setting run, but other athletes wearing ‘super spikes’ are reviving a Nike shoe controversy
2021-02-26 07:56:00 World India Returns to Growth, but Recovery Divides Rich and Poor GDP expanded by 0.4%, but millions of small businesses and farmers are still struggling
2021-02-26 07:55:00 Tech SPAC Frenzy Emboldens Silicon Valley Startups to Forgo Venture Funding Helicopter-taxi hopeful Archer is among those joining the public markets with billion-dollar valuations—years before any revenue
2021-02-26 07:16:00 Life & Arts Volkswagen ID.4: Should Tesla Worry About This New Electric Rival? Probably not. Volkswagen’s first EV for the global market is long on curb appeal, light-footed among its competitive set—but comes up a bit short in engineering design, writes Dan Neil
2021-02-26 07:00:00 Markets Airbnb Can Settle Into a Post-Pandemic Market The home-share giant’s market value beats that of hotels—probably for good reason
2021-02-26 06:50:00 Markets As Yields Rise, Beware the Hidden Risks in Ultralong Bonds Slim coupons make much of the recently issued debt with maturities of between 50 and 100 years riskier than traditional bond math suggests
2021-02-26 05:30:00 Business J&J Single-Dose Covid-19 Vaccine Gets Review From FDA Advisory Panel All-day meeting, which will offer perspective of outside experts, is last step before FDA decides whether to authorize the single-dose vaccine
2021-02-26 05:30:00 Markets Grid Reliability Is Feasible, but at What Cost? Everybody can agree that electricity grids should be more reliable. It will be much harder to agree on what price to pay for that safety.
2021-02-26 05:30:00 Economy Boost to Household Income Primes U.S. Economy for Stronger Growth Consumers are expected to step up spending after receiving stimulus payments and special jobless benefits
2021-02-26 05:30:00 World Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Passports’ Raise Ethics Concerns, Logistical Hurdles Israel issues passes for going to hotels and gyms; the U.K. may seek proof of a shot or test for bars and offices
2021-02-26 05:30:00 Politics Conservatives, Republican AGs Target Gupta Instead of Garland on Policing Vanita Gupta has been nominated for associate attorney general, the number 3 job at the Justice Department
2021-02-26 05:30:00 Markets Mortgage Companies Want In on the IPO Boom. Investors Aren’t Convinced. Initial public offerings for mortgage lenders haven’t worked out the way all the companies were hoping
2021-02-26 05:30:00 World In Hunt for Covid-19 Origin, Patient Zero Points to Second Wuhan Market The man with the first confirmed infection of the new coronavirus told the WHO team that his parents had shopped there
2021-02-26 05:30:00 Markets GameStop Resurgence Reinforces New Reality for Hedge Funds U.S. stock-picking hedge funds have covered shorts and shifted shorting techniques
2021-02-26 05:20:00 Markets Post-Covid-19, Shipping Tailwinds Will Still be Strong Shares such as Cosco have benefited from surging trade during the pandemic
2021-02-26 05:03:00 Markets Stock Futures Point to Tepid Recovery After Tech Selloff The S&P 500 is on track for its worst week in a month after bond yields rose sharply, damping appetite for technology shares and riskier assets
2021-02-25 23:04:00 Politics FCC to Provide Broadband Internet Discount to Offset Pandemic Income Loss Program to offer certain households a discount of up to $50 a month will be set up within 60 days
2021-02-25 21:34:00 Politics Mitch McConnell Says He Would Support Trump If He’s GOP’s 2024 Nominee The Senate minority leader’s remarks came during a Fox News interview
2021-02-25 21:30:00 Film Review ‘Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry’ Review: Shin Splints, Grammy Awards and Heartbreak R.J. Cutler’s intimate documentary captures the teenage singer-songwriter’s rapid rise to superstardom and her immense emotional vulnerability.
2021-02-25 20:28:00 World Biden Orders U.S. Airstrike in Syria, Targeting Iran-Backed Militia Airstrike follows deadly rocket attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq earlier this month
2021-02-25 20:28:00 CFO Journal Autodesk Names New CFO as It Looks to Do More Deals Debbie Clifford will join the software company on March 8
2021-02-25 20:11:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Cayman Islands, Morocco Placed on Terror-Financing Watch List The Financial Action Task Force has added four jurisdictions to its list of countries subject to increased monitoring
2021-02-25 19:01:00 Economy Fed Attributes Payment Systems Outage to ‘Human Error’ Mistake caused key financial services to shut down for about four hours Wednesday
2021-02-25 18:46:00 Opinion The Censorship Party House Democrats use a hearing to target conservative media.
2021-02-25 18:43:00 Opinion The Markets and Mr. Powell The 10-year Treasury resumes its rise and stocks hit the skids.
2021-02-25 18:43:00 Business AT&T Carves Out Pay-TV Business in Deal With TPG Private-equity giant to pay $1.8 billion for 30% interest in new DirecTV unit
2021-02-25 18:41:00 Life & Arts ‘Pie in the Sky’: Illusory Goodies Invented by a Labor Legend The songwriter and activist known as Joe Hill coined the phrase in a parody of a Salvation Army hymn
2021-02-25 18:38:00 Opinion A Poison Pill for For-Profit Colleges The Democratic spending bill would put many out of business.
2021-02-25 18:37:00 Business Beyond Meat Signs Supply Deals With McDonald’s, Yum Partnerships with fast-food giants set to take meat alternatives further into the dining mainstream
2021-02-25 18:36:00 Opinion The Old New York Won’t Come Back ‘The pandemic changed everything,’ we say. But we have yet to absorb fully everything that means.
2021-02-25 18:35:00 Health Mark Machin, Head of Canada’s Biggest Pension Fund, Traveled to Middle East and Received Covid Vaccine CEO of CPPIB flew to the U.A.E. amid slow Canadian vaccine rollout and pandemic travel advisory
2021-02-25 18:31:00 Opinion Biden and Allies Stoked Vaccine Fears Seeking to undermine Trump, Democrats, media and scientists made false and alarming claims.
2021-02-25 18:31:00 Opinion How Many Jobs Will the ‘Stimulus’ Kill? As many as eight million by our estimate, in part by gutting many of Clinton’s successful welfare reforms.
2021-02-25 18:28:00 Opinion Another Golf Great in a Car Crash Ben Hogan won 64 tours after doctors said he might never walk.
2021-02-25 18:27:00 Opinion ‘Just Asking’ for Censorship Democrats expand their effort to shut down speech by targeting newsrooms.
2021-02-25 18:26:00 Opinion Prayer and Science Led Me to the Vaccine Like others in the black community, I was hesitant. Then I did my research.
2021-02-25 18:26:00 Books ‘The Snatch Racket’ Review: Coppers & Kidnappers The Lindbergh baby was only the most high-profile victim of an ‘epidemic’ of abductions in 1930s America.
2021-02-25 18:17:00 Business Tesla Temporarily Halted U.S. Production Over Parts Shortage Elon Musk says production at car maker’s U.S. plant resumed Wednesday after two-day shutdown
2021-02-25 18:02:00 Business Mr. Potato Head Isn’t Going Away. Meet the New Potato Head Family. Hasbro is dropping the ‘Mister’ from the brand name and rolling out an inclusive family toy set, but will keep Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head characters
2021-02-25 17:52:00 CFO Journal German Regulator Steps Down, EY Changes Leadership Following Wirecard Scandal The once-high flying electronic payments company disclosed a $2 billion accounting hole
2021-02-25 17:43:00 World Biden Calls Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Amid Policy Review Discussion comes ahead of the release of a U.S. report on the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi
2021-02-25 17:41:00 Tech Salesforce Posts Record Sales Business software provider lifts full-year revenue outlook
2021-02-25 17:19:00 U.S. NYPD’s Top Uniformed Officer Leaves for City Hall Departure of NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan is the latest leadership change at the force
2021-02-25 16:51:00 Opinion Do Democrats Trust Biden? After his blown calls on vaccines and the economy, some lawmakers don’t even want to let him start wars.
2021-02-25 16:49:00 Life & Arts Former U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Coach Dies by Suicide After Being Charged With Human Trafficking The state of Michigan confirmed the death, hours after announcing 24 charges against John Geddert, a close ally of disgraced former team doctor Larry Nassar
2021-02-25 16:49:00 Business U.S. Seafood Suppliers Face Trouble for Lent Shipping turmoil, warehouse issues cost importers, restaurants during fish’s most popular season; ‘six months of shrimp rings’
2021-02-25 16:47:00 Politics House Passes Equality Act Bill would extend civil-rights protections to gay, transgender people
2021-02-25 16:47:00 Economy Fed Officials Upbeat on Outlook, Bond Yield Rise Not Source of Concern Fed officials attribute higher Treasury yields to expectations for an improving economy
2021-02-25 16:29:00 CIO Journal Digital Tools Aid Texas Plumbers in Wake of Winter Storm Initiatives launched by Ferguson and Home Depot during the pandemic are helping plumbers tackle another disaster
2021-02-25 16:22:00 Opinion ‘Simply Sondheim’ and ‘Women Without Men’ Reviews: A Splendid Revue and a Most Stageworthy Revival Virginia’s Signature Theatre pays tribute to the composer known for ‘Company,’ ‘A Little Night Music’ and ‘Follies’; Mint Theater Company stages Irish playwright Hazel Ellis’s 1938 drama.
2021-02-25 16:17:00 Logistics Report Canada Slow to Improve Rail-Safety Oversight, Audit Warns Investigation follows fiery 2013 derailment of tanker cars in Quebec that killed 47 people
2021-02-25 16:17:00 Markets U.S. Treasury Yields Rise After Positive Jobs Data Move extends a recent climb in government bond yields
2021-02-25 16:17:00 Politics Biden Pick Tanden’s Confirmation Battle Puts Spotlight on Two Senate Centrists The fate of Neera Tanden’s nomination to lead the budget office comes down to Republican Lisa Murkowski and Democrat Kyrsten Sinema
2021-02-25 16:15:00 Politics Biden Trade Nominee Seeks Solution for Boeing-Airbus Dispute Katherine Tai at Senate confirmation hearing says she plans to accelerate talks with EU in bid to end counter-tariffs
2021-02-25 16:11:00 Pro Cyber News ByteDance Agrees to $92 Million Privacy Settlement With U.S. TikTok Teens Class-action lawsuit in Illinois stemmed from 21 separate complaints last year
2021-02-25 15:56:00 Life & Arts The Long-Term Economic Costs of Lost Schooling Students who are falling behind now because of Covid restrictions may never catch up in their skills, job prospects and income.
2021-02-25 15:52:00 Opinion Standing Up to the Amazon Thought Police I checked out Amazon, and the book “When Harry Became Sally” was indeed no longer listed. Ironically, however, Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” was still available for purchase.
2021-02-25 15:50:00 Opinion Guaranteed Income Better Than Bigger CTC A guaranteed income is preferable to a UBI or CTC in that it goes only to those who need it.
2021-02-25 15:50:00 Opinion U.S. May Be Back, but the Europeans Aren’t It isn’t surprising that Germany and others are enjoying a thumb in America’s eye.
2021-02-25 15:32:00 Business Twitter to Launch Subscription Service Super Follows, Aims to Double Revenue by 2023 The social-media company detailed its goals at an event for analysts, its first in several years
2021-02-25 15:29:00 Markets Charlie Munger Renews Robinhood Criticism, Likens App to Racetrack Betting Online brokerage calls Munger’s comments ‘disappointing and elitist’
2021-02-25 15:26:00 Politics Homeland Security Refocuses Grants Towards Fighting Domestic Extremism State and local governments will have to spend at least 7.5% of their grant money to fight domestic extremism
2021-02-25 15:18:00 Politics Senate Waits for Minimum-Wage Ruling From Parliamentarian Finding will shape course of debate over President Biden’s Covid-19 aid package
2021-02-25 15:14:00 Economy Covid-19 Fraudsters Keep Targeting Jobless Claims. What Does It Mean for Workers and the Data? Fraudulent claims don’t appear to be distorting long-term unemployment insurance trends
2021-02-25 15:12:00 Television Review ‘Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell’ Review: It All Started in Brooklyn A Netflix documentary looks back on the short life of the Notorious B.I.G., born Christopher Wallace, through interviews with his mother and rap collaborators.
2021-02-25 15:10:00 Film Review ‘The Father’ Review: Who Are You? Who Am I? Starring Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman, Florian Zeller’s feature explores the mind of a man experiencing memory loss.
2021-02-25 15:07:00 Television Review ‘Debris’ Review: Unidentified Flying Objects Intelligence agents attempt to solve an extraterrestrial mystery in NBC’s new sci-fi drama.
2021-02-25 15:06:00 Film Review ‘The United States vs. Billie Holiday’ Review: Singer in Their Sights In Lee Daniels’s feature, Andra Day stars as the celebrated vocalist, who was pursued by the federal government as part of its war on drugs.
2021-02-25 14:58:00 Markets Twitter Lets It Fly Social-media platform aimed high with an ambitious set of targets Thursday
2021-02-25 14:50:00 Business Dead Chickens, Frozen Oranges Confront Farmers in South After Severe Cold The wintry blast in Texas and other southern U.S. states led to euthanized chicks, frostbitten cow udders and hundreds of millions of dollars in losses
2021-02-25 14:43:00 Markets GameStop’s Stock Price Jumps, Retail ETF Follows The fund known by ticker XRT is rising again
2021-02-25 14:41:00 Life & Arts World Wars Couldn’t Stop Venice’s Caffe Florian. Covid Did. Historic Caffè Florian, the city’s most opulent coffeehouse and unofficial hub for Carnival, was a gleeful time warp until Covid temporarily closed it last year
2021-02-25 14:39:00 Tech Chip Makers Applaud Biden’s Catch-Up Effort but See No Quick Fix Industry executives expect U.S. push to address chip shortages will take years amid surging demand, complexity of supply chains
2021-02-25 14:25:00 Markets Coinbase Files for Public Offering Crypto exchange tapping public markets amid bitcoin frenzy
2021-02-25 13:57:00 World Petrobras CEO Says He Will Step Down as Brazil’s President Moves in on Oil Giant Market-friendly Castello Branco’s departure raises fears of Bolsonaro economic populism
2021-02-25 13:56:00 Life & Arts Iron Curtains Are Older Than the Cold War Winston Churchill made the term famous, but ideological rivalries have driven geopolitics since Athens and Sparta.
2021-02-25 13:52:00 Politics Sen. Rand Paul Presses Transgender Health Nominee About Treatment in Children Hearing for Biden nominee for assistant health secretary turns tense as she is pressed over her stance on gender dysphoria treatment for minors
2021-02-25 13:51:00 Markets Paramount+ Hits a Divided Audience ViacomCBS stock had surged ahead of streaming event, sharply splitting Wall Street
2021-02-25 13:38:00 Life & Arts Recipes to Celebrate Black History Month From rib-eye steak with a nutty Nigerian-style spice rub to a comforting plate of beans and rice, these recipes are deeply rooted in the experiences of the chefs who created them
2021-02-25 12:50:00 IPOs Autonomous Trucking Startup TuSimple Plans to Go Public in March Company backed by Chinese, U.S. investors has filed confidential IPO papers
2021-02-25 12:18:00 Business Costco to Raise Minimum Hourly Wage to $16, as Congress Debates $15 Retailer tops Amazon and splits with Walmart, which is keeping starting pay at $11 an hour
2021-02-25 12:16:00 World Deadly Unrest Roils Iranian City Clashes between protesters and security forces in impoverished minority region follow killing of fuel traders
2021-02-25 12:10:00 Opinion Yellen Can’t Save the Polar Bears What happens if financial regulators try to address the climate? Expect the usual corporate favoritism.
2021-02-25 12:09:00 Opinion Biden’s Stimulus and the ‘Financialization’ of Taxes How to pay for all the new spending? The president proposes heavier reliance on capital-gains levies.
2021-02-25 12:08:00 Markets For U.S. Businesses, a Time to Spend Despite uncertainty over course of pandemic and prospects for economy, many companies can’t help but invest
2021-02-25 12:06:00 Life & Arts The Power of the Wandering Mind Research shows that daydreaming and woolgathering are specialized mental functions with a unique pattern of brain waves.
2021-02-25 12:01:00 CMO Today Ad Campaigns Aim to Counter Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy The work was informed by research showing nuanced concerns regarding the Covid vaccine, Ad Council and COVID Collaborative say
2021-02-25 11:30:00 Markets Best Buy Tests Its Luck Retailer’s decisive approach to operational changes will be challenged again this year
2021-02-25 11:10:00 Markets TIAA Names JPMorgan’s Thasunda Brown Duckett as CEO Duckett is a leading voice among bankers in the need to close the wealth gap between white and Black Americans
2021-02-25 11:05:00 Latin America Argentine Government, Wary of Spending Cuts, Drags Feet on Deal With IMF Ruling Peronists want to wait until after October mid-term elections; Hope economic recovery can trim deficit
2021-02-25 10:53:00 World Armenia’s Prime Minister Accuses Military of Planning Coup Following Losses in Nagorno-Karabakh Armed forces call for Nikol Pashinyan’s resignation amid anger over last year’s Russian-brokered cease-fire with Azerbaijan
2021-02-25 10:49:00 World China’s Campaign to Crush Democracy in Hong Kong Is Working Freewheeling former British colony brought to heel by new national-security law used to quell street protests, ban foreign lobbying and gut the legislature
2021-02-25 10:14:00 Life & Arts How Uniqlo Heattech Became This Writer’s Secret Weapon in Winter Mary H.K. Choi, author of the forthcoming novel ‘Yolk,’ reflects on her co-dependent cold-weather relationship with the rayon-blend long-johns
2021-02-25 09:42:00 Tech Facebook Fight Over Media Payments Shifts Focus to Europe As EU adopts a new copyright law, some call for stricter measures against big tech firms
2021-02-25 09:35:00 Politics Widows Run for Congress After Husbands’ Covid-19 Deaths Susan Wright and Julia Letlow compete in elections to fill two House seats
2021-02-25 09:30:00 CFO Journal Herbalife CFO Looks to Change Investor Views After Years of Activist Pressure The nutrition company hopes to shift its shareholder base to include more long-term, international investors
2021-02-25 09:11:00 Economy U.S. Durable-Goods Climbed 3.4% in January New orders posted ninth straight month of gains and the largest percentage increase since July 2020
2021-02-25 09:01:00 World China Lets Yuan Rise Steadily, Pressuring Exporters Currency has climbed 9% against U.S. dollar since June, forcing some companies hit by pandemic-related expenses to consider raising cost of goods
2021-02-25 09:00:00 CMO Today Facebook Ad Campaign Promotes Personalized Advertising The social-media giant calls targeted ads good because they help small businesses find consumers
2021-02-25 09:00:00 U.S. Washington, D.C., Police Fight a Rise in Carjackings and Blame Covid-19 Nation’s capital, other cities report sharp increases in carjackings in 2020
2021-02-25 08:44:00 U.S. New Mail Trucks Are Finally Coming, but Don’t Expect All Electric Vehicles Postmaster general says just 10% of new fleet will be EVs because it would cost $3 billion or more to go all electric
2021-02-25 08:40:00 Economy Yellen Urges G-20 Countries to Increase Support for Global Vaccination Efforts
2021-02-25 08:30:00 Real Estate Your Tenant Stopped Paying Rent During Covid. Here’s What You Should Know Small landlords that rely on rental income for their retirement are vulnerable to eviction bans
2021-02-25 08:23:00 Markets GameStop, Other Meme Stocks Leap Premarket Videogame retailer’s stock is still well below its intraday peak of $483 in late January
2021-02-25 08:22:00 Tech Amazon’s Lack of Public Disclosure on SolarWinds Hack Angers Lawmakers Tech giant says it wasn’t breached, but it is seen as having valuable data on the attack
2021-02-25 08:22:00 Business Best Buy Workers Powered Through Covid-19 Pandemic. Then They Lost Their Jobs. Electronics retailer warns pandemic-fueled gains will end and tries to speed its digital transformation. That means new roles, fewer hours for some workers.
2021-02-25 08:22:00 Markets Budweiser Brewer Faces an Ill-Timed Hangover Major investors in the world’s biggest beer maker will soon have the option to sell their stakes when five-year lockups expires
2021-02-25 08:00:00 Markets U.S. Farmers are Planting More Row Crops Than Ever Planters wager that rallies in crop prices are just getting started
2021-02-25 07:56:00 Life & Arts Tiger Woods and the Long Way Back A car accident in California has golf fans pondering a legend’s future, on the course and off
2021-02-25 07:52:00 World Lessons From the U.K. About a More-Contagious Covid-19 Variant Strain first detected in Britain last year has been found in more than 70 countries, including the U.S.
2021-02-25 07:51:00 Markets Vanguard Charts a Narrow Path in China, Staking Its Future on a Fledgling Venture The asset manager is betting that its partnership with China’s Ant will give it some reach over the roughly one billion users of its Alipay
2021-02-25 07:39:00 Business Hard Seltzers Help Bud Brewer Regain Some Sparkle Beer giant AB InBev says alcoholic sparkling waters are helping offset weaker sales of Budweiser
2021-02-25 07:14:00 Tech Fight Between ‘Fortnite’ Creator and Apple Reels in More Tech Players Computer-game distributor Valve is the latest to be pressured into playing a role in a legal battle over app-store fees; ‘it’s not just you’
2021-02-25 07:03:00 Markets Restaurant Stocks Are Overfed Reopening will be a blessing for U.S. restaurants, but not necessarily for restaurant stock prices
2021-02-25 07:00:00 Politics What Biden’s Minimum-Wage Plan Means for Restaurant Workers Employers say eliminating $2.13-an-hour subminimum wage for workers receiving tips could cost jobs and raise prices; plan’s advocates say it would provide consistent income
2021-02-25 07:00:00 Consumer-Focused Prelude Growth Collects $250 Million for Second Fund The women-led firm invests in makers of consumer products for the ‘modern consumer’
2021-02-25 06:45:00 Business Pfizer and BioNTech Studying Third Covid-19 Vaccine Dose to Fight New Strains The companies have begun a study in people testing whether a third dose of their vaccine would increase its effectiveness against the variant identified in South Africa and other strains
2021-02-25 06:40:00 World India and Pakistan Agree to Cease-Fire Along Their Disputed Border in Kashmir Surprise agreement followed a conversation between senior military officers of the two countries over a hotline
2021-02-25 06:39:00 Tech Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter Face New Rules in India Guidelines require companies to resolve user complaints quickly, among other measures
2021-02-25 06:38:00 Markets Geely and Volvo Decide to Remain Friends With Benefits The auto makers have decided they can work better together as separate companies, a year after announcing a planned merger
2021-02-25 06:37:00 Economy Global Trade Roars Back From Depths of Covid-19 Pandemic Asian countries have seized market share that they are expected to keep
2021-02-25 06:30:00 Markets Nvidia’s Story Has Gotten Complicated Strong results were offset by worries about chip-production constraints and growing opposition to the Arm deal
2021-02-25 06:17:00 Economy Rich Countries Borrowed $18 Trillion in 2020. Few Seem Worried About Them Paying It Off. Developed-world governments sold bonds in record volumes in the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, but their borrowing costs fell
2021-02-25 06:03:00 Markets Bank Stocks Are Enjoying the Rate Party, Maybe a Little Too Much Higher Treasury yields create opportunities to pick up interest income, but benefit for shares may be limited without more loan demand
2021-02-25 05:30:00 Markets Rare Bond-Market Inversion Signals Short-Lived Boost to Inflation Markets appear to price in a spike of inflation in the medium term that ebbs later on
2021-02-25 05:30:00 Economy Winter Storms Could Affect Elevated Jobless Claims Weekly figures on unemployment filings face anomalies from weather, attempted fraud and changes in government policy
2021-02-25 05:30:00 Business Airbnb’s IPO Costs Expected to Widen Loss in Pandemic Year Stock compensation tied to the company’s initial public offering is forecast to weigh on its bottom line
2021-02-25 05:30:00 Biotech Startups Gain Leverage as IPOs, SPACs Beckon As public markets sizzle and more routes to them emerge, entrepreneurs can carefully weigh their options
2021-02-25 05:30:00 Markets Red-Hot Stock Market Pushes More Companies to Go Public The number of firms listed on U.S. exchanges surges the most since the dot-com bubble, reversing a two-decade slump
2021-02-25 05:30:00 Derby’s Take: Fed Payment System Crash Puts Spotlight on Digital Dollar Project
2021-02-25 05:30:00 Business Boeing Moved to Replace 777 Engine Covers Before Recent Failures FAA has focused on ramped-up inspections since the failures; changes to airplane parts could require lengthy design and testing
2021-02-25 05:30:00 Tech DoorDash to Show Narrower Annual Loss as Growth Continues Revenue projected to jump threefold as food-delivery skyrocketed during pandemic
2021-02-25 05:13:00 Markets Stock Futures Waver After Dow Record Dow futures ticked up a day after the blue-chips index climbed to a record, as investors await a flurry of data including weekly jobless claims
2021-02-25 04:29:00 Business Netflix Wants You to Binge Watch More Korean Dramas Streaming giant to spend $500 million on South Korean films and television shows, as competition for global viewers heats up
2021-02-25 03:20:00 Real Estate U.S. Closes Hong Kong Property Sale After Beijing’s Approval Government sells former residential compound for consulate staff for $332 million
2021-02-24 22:26:00 Politics Biden Rescinds Trump Immigration Restrictions Trump administration had banned most forms of legal immigration last year, citing high unemployment caused by pandemic
2021-02-24 22:22:00 Business Amazon Faces Questions Over Removal of Book by Conservative Author Republican senators send letter to Jeff Bezos in which they say the company’s move signals to conservative Americans that their views aren’t welcome
2021-02-24 22:13:00 Tech WeWork’s Adam Neumann to Get Extra $50 Million Payout in SoftBank Settlement Deal would set Mr. Neumann apart from other WeWork shareholders
2021-02-24 20:29:00 U.S. Boeing-FAA Ties Still Flawed After 737 MAX Reforms Government review says Federal Aviation Administration needs to further strengthen oversight of aircraft safety
2021-02-24 20:18:00 Risk & Compliance Journal SEC Opens Review of Corporate Climate Change Disclosures The regulator’s previous guidance on climate change was issued more than a decade ago
2021-02-24 19:59:00 CFO Journal GameStop CFO Was Forced Out as Activist Investor Pushes New Strategy Ryan Cohen is seeking a digital transformation of the videogame retailer
2021-02-24 19:39:00 Markets Markets Suggest the Economy Is Booming. The Recovery Has a Long Way to Go, Though. A rally in everything from stocks to oil shows investors believe growth is coming
2021-02-24 19:02:00 U.S. Manhattan Donors Pour Cash Into New York City Mayoral Race A few ZIP codes accounted for a large amount of high-dollar donations to the candidate field
2021-02-24 19:00:00 Tech Facebook, Google Face ‘Strong Pipeline’ of Privacy Rulings in Europe Key privacy regulator for European Union expects to boost number of big decisions this year involving tech companies
2021-02-24 18:51:00 Politics Biden Announces Three Nominees for Postal Service Board of Governors President said his nominees would ensure the agency ‘can effectively and efficiently serve all communities in our country’
2021-02-24 18:42:00 Opinion Powell Says Full Ease Ahead The Fed chief promises Treasury purchases as far as the eye can see.
2021-02-24 18:42:00 Markets GameStop Shares Soar in Last Hour of Trading Stock is still well below its intraday peak of $483 in late January
2021-02-24 18:42:00 Opinion Supersizing ObamaCare Subsidies The Covid bill hides a major expansion of the Affordable Care Act.
2021-02-24 18:41:00 Opinion Pelosi’s Capitol Riot Commission If it’s stacked with Democrats, it won’t be a credible inquiry.
2021-02-24 18:41:00 Opinion The Unnecessary State Covid Bailout Governors plead poverty even as tax revenue is rolling in.
2021-02-24 18:31:00 Business Paul Ryan to Join Solamere Capital Former House speaker says he’ll be a partner at Boston private-equity firm
2021-02-24 18:25:00 Business Graphics-Chip Maker Nvidia Lifts Revenue Amid Videogame Boom Pandemic helps fuel demand, as the semiconductor industry contends with a supply shortage
2021-02-24 18:23:00 Opinion End of the Empire Thirty years ago, a Marxist military collapse.
2021-02-24 18:03:00 Opinion Texas Power Crisis Points to Wider Dangers Regulations forbid utilities from building energy resiliency.
2021-02-24 18:02:00 Opinion Peril and Opportunity for Trump at CPAC Will he double down on grievance or begin the arduous process of re-creating his image?
2021-02-24 18:02:00 U.S. Bruce Springsteen’s Drunken-Driving Charges Dropped by Prosecutors Musician’s blood-alcohol level was under the legal limit, federal prosecutors say; Springsteen pleaded guilty to consuming alcohol in a closed area
2021-02-24 18:01:00 Opinion It’s T-0 to Go Faster Than T+2 It shouldn’t take two days for a stock trade to clear and settle. It’s become feasible to do it in one.
2021-02-24 18:01:00 Opinion Italy’s Populists Join the Establishment Trusted technocrat Mario Draghi heads a coalition that includes former euroskeptics.
2021-02-24 17:59:00 Politics Plan for Jan. 6 Capitol Riot Commission Sparks Partisan Fighting in Congress Republicans object to Democratic proposal on makeup of panel and its focus on violence by far-right groups supporting former President Trump
2021-02-24 17:59:00 Opinion Neera Tanden’s Death by Twitter Does Twitter have a tool for deleting 1,000 politically self-destructive tweets?
2021-02-24 17:58:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: The Electoral Map The partisan strife of the last decade has failed to produce either a Democratic majority or the less-frequently-projected MAGA nation. But it has shown both parties capable of adapting to unforeseen challenges.
2021-02-24 17:57:00 World Brazil’s Free-Market Agenda Is in Doubt as President Looks to Reelection Jair Bolsonaro’s move to shake up state oil company is blow to economy minister’s pro-business mission
2021-02-24 17:57:00 Books ‘The Genome Odyssey’ Review: From Code to Clinic The effort to bring data from the human genome into medical therapy and practice has been thrilling and frustrating.
2021-02-24 17:43:00 Life & Arts Can Tiger Woods Come Back—Again—After His Car Crash? The golf legend suffered significant leg injuries that required emergency surgery. Now he faces his most difficult rehabilitation ever.
2021-02-24 17:32:00 U.S. Gov. Andrew Cuomo Accused of Sexual Harassment by Former Aide In a blog post, Lindsey Boylan described a culture of ‘inappropriate behavior toward women’ and ‘bullying,’ accusations the New York governor denies
2021-02-24 17:25:00 Business A Theranos Database Is Useless. What Happened? Attorneys for company founder Elizabeth Holmes say prosecutors can’t prove fraud case without the results of millions of blood tests
2021-02-24 17:19:00 Business ViacomCBS Shortens Theatrical Window for Paramount+ Streaming Service Company to offer some top Paramount movies on new subscription platform within 30 to 45 days of their theatrical release
2021-02-24 17:00:00 World Israeli Study Finds Pfizer Shot Equally Effective for Young and Old Findings offer insight into vaccine’s effect on older age groups that were sparsely covered in clinical trial
2021-02-24 16:46:00 Life & Arts Top Colleges in the Northeast by Size The region has more than half of the nation’s top 10 small schools and midsize schools in the WSJ/THE College Rankings
2021-02-24 16:42:00 Business Verizon Spends $45.5 Billion to Top 5G Spectrum Bidders Cellphone carrier pledges record sum to secure airwaves for faster wireless service in $81 billion FCC auction
2021-02-24 16:33:00 Pro Bankruptcy Sycamore’s Belk to Exit Bankruptcy Within One Day The department store chain won approval to cut $450 million in debt in one of the fastest bankruptcy cases from start to finish
2021-02-24 16:29:00 Hospital Tests Neuromorphic Chip-Powered Robotic Arm The device, mounted on wheelchairs and powered by technology that imitates the way the human brain works, could provide patients new levels of independence
2021-02-24 16:10:00 Business Moderna Says Covid-19 Vaccine for South Africa Strain Is Ready for Human Testing Biotech delivers first batch of doses of newly designed shot to NIH for study that could start within weeks
2021-02-24 16:09:00 Risk & Compliance Journal U.K. Investment Managers Push for More Diversity on Boards The effort by the Investment Association is among the latest initiatives advocating for more women and minorities in boardrooms
2021-02-24 16:07:00 Opinion What I Learned in an Iranian Prison U.S. foreign policy isn’t to blame for the mullahs’ deep-rooted hatred of America and Americans.
2021-02-24 16:06:00 Economy Federal Reserve Financial-Services Systems Disrupted for Hours Treasury sees no sign of cyberattack behind interruptions of electronic payments services to business and government clients
2021-02-24 16:05:00 Arts How Movies like ‘The Father’ Helped Me Understand My Mother’s Alzheimer’s After avoiding dementia dramas, a writer finds new perspectives in a spate of films exploring the disease in unconventional ways.
2021-02-24 16:04:00 Opinion Rush Limbaugh: The Original Cancel Culture Target He refused to apologize for fake transgressions and never lost his humor. More could follow his example.
2021-02-24 15:58:00 Economy Powell Pledges to Maintain Fed’s Easy-Money Policies Until Economy Recovers Fed chairman says more progress is needed toward employment, inflation goals
2021-02-24 15:53:00 Opinion H.R.1 Isn’t at All an Unconstitutional Bill The Constitution explicitly grants Congress the power “at any time” to “make or alter” the regulation of the “time, place and manner” of federal elections.
2021-02-24 15:53:00 Opinion There’s No Magic in How SDRs Help the Poor A new SRD allocation would provide liquidity to many emerging and developing countries that today have severely limited access to external financing.
2021-02-24 15:52:00 Opinion Finally, Common Sense About Service Dogs No longer will my guide dog, who lies quietly at my feet throughout an entire flight, be disturbed by an emotional-support dog barking at her.
2021-02-24 15:44:00 Arts & Entertainment Credit Patricia Highsmith for Movie Psychopaths The novelist known for ‘Strangers on a Train’ and ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’ inspired a new kind of movie villain in the 1950s who still stalks us today, in the centenary year of her birth.
2021-02-24 15:36:00 Screen Time What to Watch: Four Golden Globe Nominees Recommend Their Favorite Golden Globe Nominees Actors and directors on the movies and TV shows that they’ve loved in the last year
2021-02-24 15:27:00 Art Review ‘But Still, It Turns: Recent Photography From the World’ Review: Capturing Quotidian America Though focusing on ordinary people and landscapes, the new show at the International Center of Photography manages to make the humdrum compelling.
2021-02-24 15:11:00 Business Icon to Buy Clinical-Trial Rival PRA in $12 Billion Deal Tie-up would expand role of technology in clinical trials and drug development
2021-02-24 14:51:00 Life & Arts Wine Can Be Fun—Seriously Oenophilia is often undertaken with the utmost reverence. So our wine columnist went looking for levity—and bottles that bring joy in more ways than one
2021-02-24 14:48:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Executive Convicted in U.K. Bribery Case Against Unaoil Group After Retrial Paul Bond, a former SBM Offshore sales manager, has been found guilty of conspiring to bribe public officials in Iraq
2021-02-24 14:39:00 U.S. Texas Judge Extends Ruling Blocking Biden’s 100-Day Pause on Deportations State challenged the administration’s move; preliminary injunction blocks policy indefinitely
2021-02-24 14:06:00 Politics Biden Economic Aide Sees Steady Recovery as Covid-19 Vaccinations Progress Jared Bernstein defends Biden relief plan and says stimulus payments will give households a cash cushion
2021-02-24 13:58:00 Business McKinsey Partners Vote Out Leader in Wake of Opioid Settlement, Other Crises Kevin Sneader’s single three-year term will end; partners to elect new head in March
2021-02-24 13:24:00 Politics CIA Nominee Burns Promises Spying Focus on China, Seeing ‘Adversarial, Predatory’ Regime Veteran diplomat pledges to deliver bad news to policy makers, after senators note tumult of Trump years
2021-02-24 13:14:00 Business Three Found Guilty in Helping Carlos Ghosn Escape to Turkey An Istanbul judge handed down fines and suspended prison sentences to two pilots and an airline manager for aiding the former Nissan chairman
2021-02-24 13:10:00 Business Volvo, Geely Back Away From Merger Independence from Geely puts Volvo IPO back on table
2021-02-24 13:03:00 Markets Saudi Arabia Borrows at Negative Rates for First Time as Oil Recovers The kingdom sold euro-denominated three- and nine-year bonds, raising $1.8 billion
2021-02-24 13:00:00 World Countries Seek New Fix for Dormant International Trade Court World Trade Organization moves to revive a system for resolving trade disputes that has been a point of friction between U.S. and other nations
2021-02-24 12:45:00 Life & Arts Mandarin, Fennel and Almond Salad Light, bright, vegan and very satisfying, this combination of citrus, fennel and salty almonds has a creamy almond-milk dressing you'll want to drizzle on everything
2021-02-24 12:39:00 Life & Arts This 15-Minute Salad Is a Winter Wonder Light, bright, vegan and very satisfying, this combination of citrus, fennel and salty almonds has a creamy almond-milk dressing you'll want to drizzle on everything
2021-02-24 12:23:00 Tech Facebook to Spend $1 Billion on News Content Over Three Years Pledge comes as tech giants face world-wide government scrutiny over paying news publishers
2021-02-24 12:14:00 Life & Arts Tiger Woods’s Car Accident: What We Know About the Crash and Injuries The 45-year-old golf star suffered significant leg injuries after a crash near Los Angeles
2021-02-24 12:09:00 U.S. Texas Is Awash in Natural Gas. It Didn’t Help in the Storm State, industry officials show little appetite to harden natural-gas systems after a winter freeze left millions without power and heat
2021-02-24 12:09:00 Markets Home Depot and Lowe’s Shouldn’t Fear Pandemic’s End Investors seem overly jittery about Lowe’s and Home Depot’s ability to outperform 2020
2021-02-24 12:06:00 A Closer Look Excerpts from “Too Small Tola” by Atinuke, Illustrated by Onyinye Iwu
2021-02-24 12:05:00 CMO Today TPG-Backed Fandom Buys Gaming E-Commerce Platform Entertainment company seeks direct sales to consumers and better appeal to marketers
2021-02-24 12:00:00 Experience Report Tech Firms Train Voice Assistants to Understand Atypical Speech Voice assistants like Alexa and Siri often can’t understand people with dysarthria or a stutter; their creators say that may change
2021-02-24 11:16:00 Life & Arts Why the North Face’s ’90s Nuptse Jacket Is Selling Out—and Three Puffers to Buy Instead A brief history of the accessibly priced Nuptse—a nostalgic icon adored by celebs like Bella Hadid—and three equally toasty modern-day options
2021-02-24 11:07:00 Business Court Clears Path for California’s Net-Neutrality Law Federal judge’s decision allows largest state’s law protecting open internet principles to go into effect
2021-02-24 11:06:00 Markets Square Bets on Bitcoin to Shape Its Future To grow into its valuation, company will need to convert users’ digital-currency dalliance into long-term relationships
2021-02-24 10:12:00 Markets Puerto Rico Bonds, MBIA Stock Jump on Restructuring Settlement Yield on 30-year U.S. Treasury bond hits pre-pandemic level
2021-02-24 10:04:00 Business When Is Roblox Going Public, and How Is a Direct Listing Different From an IPO? Videogame provider will soon join ranks of closely held companies bypassing traditional route of an initial public offering
2021-02-24 09:40:00 Real Estate 10 Crucial Home and Garden Design Books for Beginners Having spent decades in the decorating and gardening worlds, our columnist shares the contents of her career-building library
2021-02-24 09:31:00 Markets Lysol Maker’s Shine Will Fade, Not Disappear Even if the recent clamor for cleaning products abates, Reckitt Benckiser’s long-term prospects have improved since the onset of the pandemic
2021-02-24 09:27:00 World French Actor Gérard Depardieu Faces Rape Charges An actress in her 20s alleges the 72-year-old raped and sexually assaulted her on two occasions in 2018, according to a judicial official
2021-02-24 09:00:00 Markets Clearinghouse Urges Faster Trade Settlement Amid GameStop Scrutiny DTCC calls for speeding up the time it takes to settle securities trades to one day from two
2021-02-24 09:00:00 Books Best of the February Bookshelf: Our Reviewers’ Picks ‘No One Is Talking About This,’ ‘Think Again,’ ‘Dostoevsky in Love’—and more of the best reads from this month.
2021-02-24 08:57:00 Politics Senate Committees Postpone Votes on Biden OMB Nominee Neera Tanden Homeland Security Committee and Budget Committee were scheduled to vote Wednesday
2021-02-24 08:48:00 Life & Arts Can Home Covid Tests Solve Your Travel Woes? Several states and countries require visitors to show a negative Covid-19 test or face a quarantine. Do-it-yourself kits are the easiest solution, but just make sure you’re using the right kind.
2021-02-24 08:44:00 Markets Nothing Lucid About a $57 Billion Valuation for an Electric-Vehicle Startup Lucid Motors has a better claim than most to be the next Tesla, but Reddit-reading investors in the company taking it public are looking too far into an uncertain future
2021-02-24 08:19:00 Politics Democrats’ Minimum-Wage Push Hinges on Senate Ruling Parliamentarian is set to weigh in on which components of Covid-aid package can be advanced with just 51 votes
2021-02-24 08:02:00 World India Offers $1 Billion in Perks to Entice Computer Makers From China Program to offer firms that expand local production of laptops, tablets and more cash of up to 4% of the value of their sales
2021-02-24 08:02:00 Business Foxconn to Build Cars for Electric-Vehicle Startup Fisker Companies to produce more than 250,000 vehicles a year under deal
2021-02-24 08:00:00 Tech Amazon Echo Show 10 Review: Alexa Has Got Its Eye on You Amazon’s newest voice-controlled device is a fantastic speaker with a useful, but somewhat creepy, screen
2021-02-24 07:51:00 World Syrian Ex-Officer Is Convicted in First Trial of Assad Regime Torture German court verdict could help pave the way for other convictions of Syrian officials around the world
2021-02-24 07:30:00 CIO Journal Potential IBM Watson Health Sale Puts Focus on Data Challenges Massive data sets are needed for AI to help in healthcare decisions, but it can be difficult to compile comprehensive medical history and treatment outcome information
2021-02-24 07:03:00 Pro PE Exits EQT Stands to Quadruple Its Money Through $1 Billion Innovyze Sale EQT formed the water infrastructure software provider in 2017 through corporate carve-outs
2021-02-24 07:00:00 Politics Meet the Senate Parliamentarian, Key Figure in Minimum-Wage Debate Elizabeth MacDonough advises lawmakers on which provisions qualify under legislative procedure used for Biden’s Covid-19 relief package
2021-02-24 07:00:00 Markets Salesforce Stuck in the Penalty Box Concerns about Slack acquisition have weighed on the stock ahead of year-end results
2021-02-24 07:00:00 Business Coke, Whirlpool Keep Tax Court Losses Off the Books After losing to the IRS, some companies delay recording the costs, confident they will eventually prevail
2021-02-24 07:00:00 Markets Rising Rates Damp Mortgage Applications Ahead of Spring Selling Season The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage rose to 2.81% last week, its highest level since November
2021-02-24 06:32:00 Markets Snap Drops a Bombshell Filter Company says it reaches more than 70% of 13 to 24-year-olds in countries that generate more than half of the world’s digital ad spend
2021-02-24 06:03:00 Markets Why Higher Rates Are Hammering Big Tech Technology companies that prospered over the course of the pandemic have less appeal as the economy recovers
2021-02-24 06:00:00 Logistics Report Warehouse Robotics Provider Berkshire Grey to Go Public Through SPAC Deal The agreement comes as ‘exploding’ e-commerce demand drives investor interest in supply-chain automation
2021-02-24 05:37:00 Tech Bill to Make Facebook, Google Pay for News Clears Last Major Hurdle in Australia Proposed law prompted Facebook to block news for several days before government agreed to small changes
2021-02-24 05:33:00 Markets Texas Electric Bills Were $28 Billion Higher Under Deregulation Competition in the electricity-supply business promised reliable power at a more affordable cost
2021-02-24 05:30:00 Derby’s Take: Left-Leaning Activists Want Fed Chief Powell Replaced
2021-02-24 05:30:00 Markets Covid-19 Shopping Makes Card Fees a Bigger Burden for Merchants Swipe fees are often higher on online orders; Visa, Mastercard plan to raise them for some purchases
2021-02-24 05:30:00 Risk & Compliance Journal New Whistleblower Protection Laws Broaden OSHA’s Investigative Reach The agency will investigate retaliation complaints related to antitrust and anti-money-laundering cases
2021-02-24 05:30:00 Business A Clash Over Hazard Pay for Grocery Workers in Covid-19 Pandemic Supermarket chains say they will raise prices, reduce services or close stores to offset higher wages required by some cities
2021-02-24 05:30:00 Markets Tax Hikes for High Earners Are on the Table in Some States Governors in New York, Minnesota and elsewhere urge higher income and capital-gains taxes to fortify pandemic-weakened budgets
2021-02-24 05:30:00 U.S. FDA to Release Review of J&J’s Single-Dose Vaccine Disclosure of the detailed analysis is the next step toward potential authorization of the shot
2021-02-24 05:11:00 Markets Stock Futures Hold Steady Ahead of Fresh Powell Testimony A day after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s comments soothed markets, US. stock futures are little changed
2021-02-24 05:00:00 U.S. Biden to Address Chip Shortages, Supply-Chain Problems With Executive Action The president plans to sign an executive order following a meeting on the issues with a bipartisan group of lawmakers
2021-02-24 04:20:00 Markets How Military Leadership Hollows Out an Economy Myanmar’s coup highlights the awkward dynamics for foreign businesses involved in countries where the armed forces have their own business interests
2021-02-24 03:28:00 World First Free Covid Vaccines From WHO-Backed Covax Arrive in Ghana Program aims to immunize 20% of populations in developing countries
2021-02-24 02:53:00 Markets Hong Kong Stock Market’s Record Year Slams Into a Big Tax Increase Hong Kong stock-exchange operator posts record annual profit, but shares fall after government unveils plan to raise taxes on share trading
2021-02-23 23:34:00 Business FAA Orders New Inspections of Boeing 777 Jets With Pratt & Whitney Engines United Airlines has said cargo shipments next month would be impacted after it voluntarily grounded the jets
2021-02-23 22:31:00 World Gang Warfare in Ecuador’s Prisons Kills Dozens Tuesday’s confrontations underscore rise in violence in underfunded prisons
2021-02-23 21:21:00 Tech Why Facebook and Google Are Fighting Publishers Over Paying for News A showdown in Australia is being watched as a test case for the rest of the world
2021-02-23 20:44:00 CFO Journal GameStop CFO Resigns Weeks After Reddit-Fueled Stock-Market Frenzy The videogame retailer didn’t provide a reason for Jim Bell’s exit
2021-02-23 20:28:00 Politics Biden Meets Virtually With Canada’s Trudeau on Climate Change, Covid-19, Economic Recovery Meeting marked Biden’s first one-on-one encounter as U.S. president with another world leader
2021-02-23 20:07:00 Tech Facebook’s Tussle With Australia Over News Is Just the Beginning Other nations have expressed frustration with Facebook’s tradition of not paying for news posted to its platform
2021-02-23 19:58:00 Opinion The ‘Experts’ Cited by the New Censors A leftist professor helps Democrats attack non-leftist media.
2021-02-23 19:51:00 World Mexican Lawmakers Pass Bill to Favor State Power Utility The bill cancels key parts of the 2013 energy overhaul giving private and foreign investors a greater role in the electricity sector
2021-02-23 19:14:00 Risk & Compliance Journal SEC Suspends Ex-KPMG Auditors for Improper Professional Conduct The claims stem from audit opinions of financial statements for the now-defunct College of New Rochelle
2021-02-23 19:13:00 U.S. New York Tax Commissioner Rejects Proposal for Stock-Transfer Levy Official warns that reinstating the state’s stock-transfer tax could prompt migration of trading activity
2021-02-23 19:04:00 Opinion More Green Blackouts Ahead Biden’s regulators are ignoring the electrical grid’s vulnerability.
2021-02-23 19:03:00 Opinion No Speech Coddling in Chicago A new journal from students who refuse to be cancelled.
2021-02-23 18:49:00 Opinion Energy Policy After the Texas Blackouts Students discuss whether aggressive climate goals square with reality.
2021-02-23 18:47:00 U.S. Officers Involved in Daniel Prude’s Death Not Charged New York’s attorney general investigated the Black man’s death after Rochester police restrained him with a mesh hood
2021-02-23 18:46:00 Opinion Connecticut’s Covid Vaccine Lesson Gov. Lamont makes a smart decision to base eligibility on age.
2021-02-23 18:40:00 Business Boeing 777’s Midair Malfunction Puts Focus on Engine Cover Investigators are trying to understand interplay between broken fan blades and engine cowling, which was ripped away
2021-02-23 18:36:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: Muppets ‘This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures. These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now.’
2021-02-23 18:35:00 Books ‘Every Human Intention’ Review: Life After the Quake Stories of decline, reform and survival in a post-Fukushima Japan already hobbled by economic stagnation and an aging society.
2021-02-23 18:34:00 Opinion The Equality Act Makes Women Unequal H.R. 5 erases ‘sex’ as a legal category, with dire consequences.
2021-02-23 18:33:00 Politics Georgia’s Perdue Opts Not to Run for Senate in 2022 The ex-senator had said he might seek the Republican nomination
2021-02-23 18:30:00 Opinion ‘America Is Back,’ but Europe Has Moved Macron and Merkel respond coolly to Biden, and public opinion backs them.
2021-02-23 18:29:00 Opinion Google and Facebook on the Barbie Why an antitrust exemption for news outlets is better than Australia’s scheme.
2021-02-23 18:28:00 Opinion ‘White Nationalism’ Isn’t American Minorities’ Biggest Problem Racial paranoia and taboos feed crime against Asians and black distrust of Covid-19 vaccinations.
2021-02-23 18:11:00 CFO Journal GameStop CFO Resigns Weeks After Stock-Market Frenzy The videogame retailer didn’t provide a reason for Jim Bell’s exit
2021-02-23 18:02:00 Business Top Amazon Executive Jeff Blackburn to Leave Company After Sabbatical Departure comes as CEO Jeff Bezos to become chairman, other leadership changes
2021-02-23 17:58:00 World Arturo Di Modica Hoped His Bull Would Soothe Investors Italian sculptor, who has died at age 80, surreptitiously installed a bronze statue in New York in 1989
2021-02-23 17:46:00 U.S. New York City Police Mobilize Against Rise in Hate Crimes Targeting Asians NYPD officers are increasing patrols and investigations, as hate crimes against Asian-Americans have risen sharply during the pandemic
2021-02-23 17:27:00 Risk & Compliance Journal U.K.’s Financial Crimes Agency Wants Companies to Invest in Compliance Two cases with diverging outcomes illustrate the value of a strong compliance program, the director of the Serious Fraud Office says
2021-02-23 17:13:00 Business Biggest Gains in Social Responsibility in the Management Top 250 DexCom, Regency Centers and Maxim Integrated Products head the list
2021-02-23 17:12:00 Business Texas Power Grid Board Members Resign Following Freeze The chair, other members of Ercot board had faced criticism for not residing in Texas
2021-02-23 16:51:00 Life & Arts Tiger Woods Hospitalized with Multiple Leg Injuries in Rollover Car Accident The golf legend was extricated from the wreck with the ‘jaws of life’ by firefighters and paramedic after the accident in the Los Angeles area
2021-02-23 16:48:00 Politics White House to Meet With Lawmakers About Chip Shortage President Biden has made supply chain problems a priority and an executive order is imminent
2021-02-23 16:44:00 World Covid-19 Vaccine Success Won’t Eliminate Virus Risk, U.K. Concludes The disease will continue to take a heavy toll even if the shots work, government advisers project
2021-02-23 16:37:00 U.S. New Jersey Governor Releases $44.8 Billion Budget Plan With No Tax Increases Blow from Covid-19 pandemic to state’s fiscal health is smaller than feared
2021-02-23 16:26:00 Music Review ‘Whisper of a Shadow, Opus 1: Musical Conversations with Louis Moreau Gottschalk’ by Yohan Giaume Review: Bridging Centuries and Continents The French trumpeter and ethnomusicologist reworks the 19th-century American composer’s pieces in a collaboration with more than 22 players from around the world.
2021-02-23 16:20:00 Television Review ‘Punky Brewster’ Review: The ’80s Foster Kid Is Now a Mom Soleil Moon Frye reprises her role in a reboot of the boundary-breaking sitcom.
2021-02-23 16:17:00 Opinion Lack of Accountability and Mediocrity Are Partners There is continuing pressure to reduce or eliminate accountability throughout our society.
2021-02-23 16:12:00 World Petrobras Weighs CEO Change as Brazilian President Turns Up Pressure Move by Jair Bolsonaro to place army general atop oil giant seen as meddling in state firm
2021-02-23 15:54:00 U.S. Full Death Toll From Texas Storm Could Take Months to Determine Officials are still counting fatalities from hypothermia, carbon monoxide, other factors as some experts warn accurate total might never be known
2021-02-23 15:51:00 Economy Jerome Powell Sees Easy-Money Policies Staying in Place Fed likely to hold interest rates near zero and continue asset purchases for some time, chairman says
2021-02-23 15:50:00 Politics Minimum-Wage Proposal in Covid-19 Aid Plan Divides Senate Democrats Lawmaker concerns over the $15 rate and pay for tipped workers could force changes to the $1.9 trillion relief package
2021-02-23 15:47:00 Opinion Multiple Power Sources Fail and Texas Freezes Here in Michigan, we have more than a thousand wind turbines that operate without failures in far more severe winter weather than Texas has ever seen.
2021-02-23 15:41:00 Politics Biden Nominee Tanden Hits Rough Patch as Becerra, Haaland Face GOP Questions Senate confirms president’s nominees for agriculture secretary and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations
2021-02-23 15:39:00 Opinion Biden’s Many Policies Often Seem to Conflict Walter Russell Mead is correct in his assessment of President Biden’s early policy instincts being a return to Obama objectives and strategies. Unfortunately the Obama path rarely achieved the stated results.
2021-02-23 15:08:00 Television Review ‘Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan’ Review: Feuding Lords and Their Fighters In Netflix’s six-part documentary, historian interviews and bloody re-enactments tell the story of the country’s civil war.
2021-02-23 14:51:00 Life & Arts Sweatpants Are Not Peak Comfort—Fleece Trousers Are Men whose style skews casual are zeroing in on the coziest things around: outrageously soft fleece trousers
2021-02-23 13:32:00 Markets Overthinking Cruise Stocks Could End the Carnival Cruise line shares are trading up on reopening hopes alone
2021-02-23 13:32:00 U.S. Cuomo Faulted for Handling of Covid-19 in Nursing Homes by Most New Yorkers, Poll Shows The Marist poll comes amid criticism of how the state delayed a fuller accounting of deaths at long-term-care facilities
2021-02-23 13:26:00 Life & Arts Pandemic Loneliness Is Hitting Young Adults Especially Hard New research shows rampant loneliness among Americans, with young adults and mothers among the most vulnerable. Here are ways to help.
2021-02-23 12:55:00 Markets Investment Firm Halts Redemptions on $1.8 Billion Fund Infinity Q Capital Management bans its chief investment officer from trading after discovering issues valuing the fund’s holdings
2021-02-23 12:54:00 Opinion Biden’s Stimulus Bill Is a $1.9 Trillion Clunker Senate Republicans are eager to get aid where it’s needed, reopen schools and encourage work.
2021-02-23 12:53:00 Opinion China’s Reckless Labs Put the World at Risk Beijing is obsessed with viruses, but not biosafety. We are paying a high price for its lapses.
2021-02-23 12:34:00 Markets Macy’s: Always on Sale It is tough to be optimistic about department stores generally—and Macy’s especially
2021-02-23 12:28:00 Politics Biden Will Travel to Houston on Friday Amid Crisis in Texas The president will meet with state and local officials and visit a coronavirus health center during the trip, the White House said
2021-02-23 12:00:00 Media & Marketing Black News Channel Looks to Shake Up Cable-TV News Landscape Up-and-coming network broadens reach and revamps show lineup, signing high-profile commentators Charles Blow and Marc Lamont Hill
2021-02-23 11:48:00 World Georgian Police Detain Opposition Leader as Worries Over Democracy Mount Head of biggest opposition party, Nika Melia, was detained on charges he said are political
2021-02-23 11:46:00 Markets Selloff in Tesla, Tech Stocks Eases After Fed Signals Steady Course Nasdaq was down modestly but on track to extend losing streak to six sessions
2021-02-23 11:44:00 Opinion Covid ‘Relief’ Through 2028 Schools are getting billions they can spend over nearly a decade.
2021-02-23 11:25:00 World Israel Grapples With Massive Oil Spill, Forcing Beaches Shut Cleanup effort could take months, if not years, authorities say
2021-02-23 10:59:00 U.S. Texas Grapples With Crushing Power Bills After Freeze Prices skyrocketed during the blackouts, resulting in billions of dollars in extra bills that Texas consumers, cities and businesses must somehow pay
2021-02-23 10:58:00 World Iran Limits Access to Nuclear Sites but Open to Talks With U.S. European proposal would bring Iranian officials together with American negotiators for the first time since the U.S. withdrew from the nuclear deal in 2018
2021-02-23 10:57:00 Politics Stimulus Package: What’s in Joe Biden’s ‘American Rescue Plan’? Democrats’ $1.9 trillion relief package includes stimulus payments, jobless benefits, vaccine funding and more
2021-02-23 10:54:00 Markets Bitcoin and Ether Prices Tumble After Hitting Record Highs Cryptocurrency prices fall sharply as enthusiasm for risky assets pauses
2021-02-23 10:43:00 Markets HSBC Takes the Slow Boat to China A much-anticipated strategic update continues the bank’s frustratingly slow pivot toward Asia, only with lower shareholder returns
2021-02-23 10:21:00 Markets Cryptocurrency Firms Bitfinex, Tether Settle New York Attorney General’s Probe Attorney general says the companies ‘unlawfully covered up’ financial losses
2021-02-23 10:13:00 Politics A Viral Video Adds Urgency to Military Sexual Assault, Harassment Defense chief says woman’s complaint is ‘disturbing,’ wants answers about her case as well as others
2021-02-23 10:04:00 World North Korean Defector’s DMZ Crossing Raises Questions About Border Security Man swam across the border, went through a drainage conduit and appeared on South Korean military cameras eight times before being detected
2021-02-23 09:54:00 Life & Arts In the Pandemic, Close Friends Relied on Their ‘Chosen Families’ When people needed a lifeline, many turned to their ‘chosen family,’ the close friends who offer support, sustenance and understanding. As one man puts it, ‘They’re the ones that I’ve had to lean on so hard for the last year.’
2021-02-23 09:12:00 Economy U.S. Home-Price Growth Accelerated in December S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller 10-city index rose 9.8% over year ended in December, 20-city index up 10.1%
2021-02-23 09:00:00 Finance Morgan Stanley Courts Startup Employees With Stock-Plan Deal The bank said it struck a deal with Silicon Valley law firm Wilson Sonsini to take over the stock plans it manages for thousands of clients
2021-02-23 09:00:00 World China Faces European Obstacles as Some Countries Heed U.S. Pressure Concerns over Chinese geopolitical aggression prompt smaller European countries to block Chinese companies from public bids
2021-02-23 08:51:00 Business Marriott Names Tony Capuano as New CEO The 25-year veteran takes over after Chief Executive Arne Sorenson died last week
2021-02-23 08:40:00 Economy Yellen’s Deputy-to-Be Shares Her Vision of Broad-Based Prosperity Obama administration alum Adewale Adeyemo would be first Black person to be Treasury Department’s No. 2 official
2021-02-23 08:28:00 Politics Senate Panel Probes SolarWinds Hack to Learn ‘How Big, How Broad’ Hit Was Software vendor’s CEO, other tech executives to testify about breach that involved a tool used widely in the government and private sector
2021-02-23 08:04:00 Pro Bankruptcy Puerto Rico Rides Muni-Bond Rally to Bankruptcy Deal Creditors owed roughly $11.7 billion agreed to settle with Puerto Rico, expecting that its court-supervised bankruptcy is nearing an end
2021-02-23 08:01:00 Life & Arts Simone Biles Hasn’t Competed in More Than a Year. She’s Not Alone. The Covid-19 pandemic has changed everything about training for an Olympics. Many top athletes have struggled to train properly, much less compete.
2021-02-23 08:00:00 Real Estate Hot Housing Market Fuels Takeover Battle for CoreLogic CoStar plans to use data firm to challenge Zillow if it wins
2021-02-23 08:00:00 Real Estate Atlantic City Housing Market Heats Up as Investors Look Beyond Casinos Home prices rose 30% in the fourth quarter, making the New Jersey city one of the country’s biggest gainers
2021-02-23 07:57:00 Markets Tesla, Palantir, Bitcoin: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today S&P 500 futures are falling, pointing to a sixth day of declines for the broad-market index
2021-02-23 07:46:00 Politics Top Security Officials to Testify on Failure to Blunt Capitol Attack The former U.S. Capitol Police chief and Washington’s acting police chief are among those facing questions in a congressional hearing about what went wrong
2021-02-23 07:00:00 Business To Make More Covid-19 Vaccines, Rival Drugmakers Team Up Sanofi and Novartis are among the big pharmaceutical companies that have agreed to help make a competitor’s shots
2021-02-23 07:00:00 Pro PE Legal Regulatory Private Equity May Face Return of Attention-Getting SEC Fines Under Gensler Chairman-Designate Gary Gensler is expected to be tougher on investment firms
2021-02-23 07:00:00 Markets DoorDash Investors Should Relish Their Feast Coming fourth-quarter results may mark the peak of investor appetite
2021-02-23 06:52:00 Business Home Depot Posts Strong Sales Growth as Pandemic Continues to Fuel Demand The company, however, says the trend could flatten this year
2021-02-23 06:22:00 Markets China’s Robinhoods are Doing Just Fine, Thanks The GameStop frenzy created problems for U.S. online brokers, but Nasdaq-listed brokers helping Chinese people punt on U.S. stocks are doing well
2021-02-23 06:20:00 Markets For Stocks, This Bond Selloff Isn’t Like the Others The latest market gyrations are being driven by “real” rates rather than simply by inflation expectations. Investors may need to reassess their portfolios.
2021-02-23 06:00:00 CMO Today VidMob, a Software Firm for Advertising Creative Data and Services, Raises $50 Million Investors in funding round include ad industry veterans, Adobe, Shutterstock and Prefix Capital
2021-02-23 06:00:00 Markets Spotify Needs to Sing Every Tune Music-streaming giant’s new ventures in podcasting, advertising and artist promotion have a high bar, as valuation has surged
2021-02-23 06:00:00 Tech Twitter’s High Hopes for India Waver Under Government’s Heavy Hand Social-media company’s relationship with New Delhi gets rockier as the latter increases demands to block users
2021-02-23 05:33:00 Markets Key Short-Term Bond Spread Hits Lowest Level in Nearly a Year Treasury prices rally, but traders worry about a reversal if inflation picks up
2021-02-23 05:30:00 Pro Cyber News Lawmakers Call for Ambassador to Represent U.S. in Cyberspace Bill proposing update to Cyber Diplomacy Act would create State Department office to lead cyber strategy
2021-02-23 05:30:00 Real Estate Hotel Sellers Use Car-Sales Model to Finance Lodging Deals Banks, owners offer cheap rates and sometimes require little money down to unload unprofitable hotels
2021-02-23 05:30:00 Markets Companies Put the Best Face on Covid-19’s Financial Impact Potentially misleading disclosures related to the pandemic attract closer scrutiny from regulators
2021-02-23 05:30:00 Pro Cyber News Covid-19 Vaccine Scams Grow, Leveraging Confusion About How to Get the Shot U.S. authorities arrested three men in connection with a fake website purporting to sell doses of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine
2021-02-23 05:30:00 Politics Becerra Faces Tough Confirmation Hearing to Lead HHS The California attorney general and longtime House member is opposed by Republicans as overly liberal, lacking in public-health experience
2021-02-23 04:53:00 World Sheikh Yamani, Mastermind of Saudi Oil Supremacy, Dies at 90 Gulf nation’s longest-serving oil minister was the public face of the 1973 oil embargo that triggered a global recession
2021-02-23 04:53:00 Markets Stock Futures Edge Down Ahead of Powell’s Comments Rising bond yields, which have weighed on the stock market in recent days, have sharpened focus on Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s testimony to Congress
2021-02-23 04:32:00 Tech Facebook Reaches Deal With Australia to Restore News Government to make changes to legislation, including requiring more negotiation before binding arbitration kicks in
2021-02-23 03:40:00 Markets HSBC Sharpens Focus on Asia, Retreats From U.S. Banking giant said it would shift assets to Asia, where it makes the bulk of its profit
2021-02-22 22:31:00 Business Boeing 777 Engines Made by Pratt & Whitney Already Faced New Scrutiny Metal fatigue found in damaged engine of United Airlines jet involved in latest incident over the weekend
2021-02-22 21:25:00 U.S. Wife of Drug Lord El Chapo Is Arrested Emma Coronel was arrested for allegedly helping her husband Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán run his drug empire
2021-02-22 20:39:00 Business Lucid Motors Set to Go Public in SPAC Deal That Values Company at $24 Billion Electric-vehicle company plans to begin deliveries of its first car later this year
2021-02-22 19:31:00 Politics Biden Remembers the More Than 500,000 Covid-19 Victims U.S. deaths from the virus surpassed half a million nearly a year after a world-wide pandemic was declared
2021-02-22 19:04:00 U.S. Families of Pensacola Terror Attack Victims Sue Saudi Arabia Complaint asks the court to find that the Gulf kingdom is liable and seeks damages
2021-02-22 18:46:00 U.S. Getting Trump Tax Returns Is Victory for Manhattan Prosecutors U.S. Supreme Court removed a hurdle for criminal probe when it rejected former president’s efforts to block subpoena for his financial records
2021-02-22 18:38:00 Risk & Compliance Journal HSBC Names Interim Compliance Chief Kirsty Everett will fill the vacancy on an acting basis as previous compliance chief becomes head of Europe unit
2021-02-22 18:34:00 U.S. New York City Extends JFK Airport Lease to Spur Development The extension to 2060 is intended to help developers complete lengthy construction projects and recoup costs
2021-02-22 18:25:00 Opinion Questions for Chairman Powell What does he make of the surge in asset prices and bond yields?
2021-02-22 18:24:00 Opinion The Court Won’t End Election Anarchy The Justices demur on a case over Pennsylvania’s 10,000 late ballots.
2021-02-22 18:24:00 Opinion Tech Censorship Is Accelerating Amazon bans a book as Democrats demand a wider media crackdown.
2021-02-22 18:18:00 U.S. New Jersey Governor to Propose Full Pension Payment for First Time Since 1996 Some states’ tax revenues, finances are better than officials had projected when Covid-19 pandemic first hit
2021-02-22 18:15:00 Opinion How American Free Trade Can Outdo China The Trump years left the U.S. ceding ground for its exports. Biden can regain it, with the help of allies.
2021-02-22 18:14:00 Books ‘Fans’ Review: Fanfare for the Fanatic The link between sports fandom and physical and mental health is well documented. But the greatest benefit is an appreciation for fair play.
2021-02-22 18:13:00 Opinion The 12th Amendment’s Dangerous Defect What if it had been up to Congress to choose the president Jan. 6?
2021-02-22 18:13:00 Opinion The Woke ‘Model Minority’ Myth For progressives, Asian-American achievement is an embarrassment.
2021-02-22 18:12:00 Opinion The Polar Bear Paradox As climate moves to the center of the world stage, activists will lose influence over policy.
2021-02-22 17:43:00 Business WeWork Co-Founder Adam Neumann Nears Settlement With SoftBank SoftBank could spend roughly $1.5 billion to buy the shares of early WeWork investors and employees
2021-02-22 17:28:00 Life & Arts Seattle Mariners CEO Resigns After ‘Inappropriate’ Comments At a Rotary Club breakfast, Kevin Mather disparaged foreign players for their English skills, alienated the team’s top prospects and insulted the club’s veteran leader
2021-02-22 17:11:00 Politics Covid-19 Relief Bill Moves Closer to House Vote House Budget Committee approves $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package
2021-02-22 17:09:00 Music Review ‘Way Down in the Rust Bucket’ by Neil Young and Crazy Horse and ‘That’s Life’ by Willie Nelson Reviews: Mining the Good Old Days Neil Young issues an unreleased concert album recorded in 1990; Willie Nelson offers another collection of standards made famous by Frank Sinatra.
2021-02-22 17:02:00 Markets Conflict at Petrobras Hits Bond Prices Bonds prices fell after Brazilian president nominated a new CEO for the oil major
2021-02-22 16:59:00 U.S. Why Trump’s Tax Returns Might Be Important to New York Prosecutors The Manhattan district attorney will soon see the former president’s financial records as part of a fraud investigation
2021-02-22 16:48:00 U.S. IRS Extends April 15 Tax Filing Deadline for Texas Residents, Businesses Agency cites disaster in extending deadline to June 15
2021-02-22 16:32:00 Opinion Another Cuomo Cover-Up? New York’s governor did to the disabled the same thing he did to the elderly.
2021-02-22 16:30:00 Life & Arts Rheumatoid Arthritis Drug Shows Promise in Fighting Covid-19 A new study shows an anti-inflammatory drug can help treat certain severe symptoms of Covid-19, and adds a tool for helping the sickest patients
2021-02-22 16:19:00 Business FDA Looks to Quickly Authorize Covid-19 Vaccine Booster Shots as New Variants Emerge Safety agency issues new guidance for manufacturers following criticism over the pace of vaccine clearances
2021-02-22 16:06:00 World Covid-19 Vaccinations Cut Hospitalizations and Deaths, U.K. Finds One shot of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine reduced cases among elderly and healthcare workers, according to data from rollout
2021-02-22 15:59:00 Pro Bankruptcy Distress Steak ’N Shake Avoids Bankruptcy, Then Sues Top Lender Fortress The milkshake-and-burger chain accuses Fortress of using confidential information to try to take over the company
2021-02-22 15:50:00 Business Spotify to Expand Its Global Footprint, Entering 85 New Markets Streaming service will be available to more than one billion people in 36 additional languages
2021-02-22 15:29:00 Opinion Poorly Targeted Covid-19 Bill Is Not Skimpy I might have agreed with Prof. Blinder if the problem today was one of inadequate aggregate demand, but that is not the situation.
2021-02-22 15:27:00 Opinion EVs Are a High Priority for Climate Progress The transportation sector currently represents more than 28% of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
2021-02-22 15:27:00 Life & Arts Ropa Vieja Leftover cocido meats and chickpeas meld marvelously in this soupy, garlicky day-after dish
2021-02-22 15:25:00 Opinion Preparing Now for the Next Great Pandemic We know that over 62% of human emerging diseases derive from zoonoses.
2021-02-22 15:24:00 World Petrobras Shares Drop in Wake of Bolsonaro’s Plan to Name New CEO Brazilian president’s move sparks a crisis of confidence in his administration’s commitment to free-market policies
2021-02-22 15:13:00 Politics Supreme Court Denies Trump Bid to Block Access to Tax, Financial Records Ruling ends former president’s efforts to halt probe into whether Trump Organization engaged in insurance, bank fraud
2021-02-22 14:38:00 Business Goodyear to Buy Rival Cooper Tire for $2.8 Billion Cash-and-stock deal would create a company with more than 50 factories
2021-02-22 14:01:00 Real Estate As Wall Street Migrates to Florida, Hedge-Funders Move to Offload Manhattan Homes Wealthy financiers are trying to sell their properties as the city’s luxury market begins to recover from the Covid crisis
2021-02-22 13:29:00 World Italian Ambassador Killed in Rebel Ambush in Eastern Congo Envoy was part of World Food Program convoy visiting school in region long terrorized by militias
2021-02-22 13:11:00 Opinion The Long Tail of ‘Kitten on the Keys’ Recorded 100 years ago this month, Zez Confrey’s piano piece launched a zippy musical style.
2021-02-22 13:08:00 Opinion An Open Mind Is the Key to the Post-Covid Economy What do you do when the facts change? If policy makers stick to their priors, they risk inflation.
2021-02-22 13:07:00 Opinion Migrants and the Threat to Women’s Rights in Europe The lack of frank debate feeds Islamists and the far right, who would impose illiberal solutions.
2021-02-22 12:46:00 World Exiled Rwandan Opposition Figure Killed in South Africa As South Africa opens police inquiry, Rwandan opposition groups say Abdallah Bamporiki was assassinated; the government doesn’t comment
2021-02-22 12:37:00 Markets No Easy Fix for Kohl’s Troubles Activist investors are itching for change at the department-store chain, but it is actually better run than its peers
2021-02-22 11:48:00 Politics ‘It Was Joe and Bob’: Dole and Biden On Making Washington Work Former Sen. Dole describes why the Senate worked better when they served together
2021-02-22 11:27:00 Business Four Million Hotel, Restaurant Workers Have Lost Jobs. Here’s How They’re Reinventing Themselves. Faced with continuing furloughs and economic lockdowns, workers in the hospitality industry are pushed into new careers as the pandemic persists
2021-02-22 11:26:00 Politics Supreme Court to Review Trump-Era Policies on Family-Planning Funding, Immigration Justices to take up cases even as the Biden administration reconsiders the two initiatives
2021-02-22 11:21:00 Tech Roblox Shares to Begin Trading March 10 Direct listing comes after videogame company delayed IPO late last year and recast financial reports in response to SEC
2021-02-22 10:35:00 Markets GameStop Shares Jump After Reddit Legend Keith Gill Doubles Down Mr. Gill disclosed late Friday the purchase of additional stock in the retailer
2021-02-22 10:18:00 Economy Treasury May Be Able to Facilitate Climate Stress Tests on Financial Firms Janet Yellen says at conference that tests likely wouldn’t impose capital requirements or limit dividend payouts
2021-02-22 10:09:00 Life & Arts Can You Choose Which Covid-19 Vaccine You Get? With vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna available in the U.S., and others on the horizon, doctors explain whether—and when—you might have a choice
2021-02-22 10:07:00 Life & Arts Fubu’s Founders On LL Cool J, Black Lives Matter and Marketing to Gen-Z Shoppers Fubu’s logo-heavy clothes were inescapable in the ’90s, driving a $350 million-a-year business. Nearly 30 years later, the brand is relaunching through licensing deals and collaborations aimed at a younger generation.
2021-02-22 09:59:00 Art Review ‘Picasso. Figures’ Review: Magic, Malleable Human Forms At Nashville’s Frist Art Museum, approximately 75 works from the Musée National Picasso-Paris explore the artist’s varied interpretations of the body.
2021-02-22 09:28:00 Markets Boeing’s 777 Problem Is No Max Grounding brings more bad publicity to the battered U.S. aerospace industry, but only affects a small subset of the 777 fleet
2021-02-22 09:24:00 Politics Treasury Watchdog Warns of Government’s Use of Cellphone Data Without Warrants Intelligence and law-enforcement agencies may be on shaky legal ground in purchasing the data, report says
2021-02-22 09:00:00 Tech Enovix Set to Go Public Through a SPAC in Deal Valued at $1.1 Billion Battery maker is building a factory in Fremont, Calif., to make batteries for wearable gadgets starting this year
2021-02-22 08:50:00 China Co-Founders of Chinese Private-Equity Firm Boyu Build Singapore Base Firm transfers part of Hong Kong operations to Singapore office to reduce exposure to potential Chinese scrutiny, sources say
2021-02-22 08:43:00 Politics Republican Senator Collins Will Oppose Neera Tanden’s Nomination to Lead OMB Pathway for Tanden’s confirmation to head the Office of Management and Budget narrows in an evenly divided Senate
2021-02-22 08:36:00 World Europe Set to Tip Toward U.S.’s Tougher Stance on Russia, China EU foreign ministers plan to order sanctions over Russia’s jailing of Alexei Navalny
2021-02-22 08:32:00 Markets Boeing, Atmos, Tesla: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today Stock futures slipped, taking a cue from rising Treasury yields
2021-02-22 08:31:00 Politics Rise in Migrant Children Tests Biden Border Strategy Administration seeks to avoid new crisis as child shelters near capacity
2021-02-22 08:07:00 Politics Biden Prepares for Sweeping Recovery Package After Covid-19 Relief Bill The prospect of another pricey package is already raising concerns among some Republicans
2021-02-22 08:07:00 Business How Some Covid-19 Tests Can Flag a Key Variant A handful of tests can’t detect part of the U.K. variant’s genetic code. That’s helping health authorities track it.
2021-02-22 08:03:00 World Declining a Covid-19 Vaccine Risks Penalties in Some Countries Indonesia levies fines, while other governments warn of restricting access to travel and public places
2021-02-22 08:02:00 Election 2020 Dominion Sues MyPillow, CEO Mike Lindell Over Election Claims The voting-machine maker’s lawsuit alleges defamation, seeks more than $1.3 billion in damages
2021-02-22 07:40:00 Markets Texas Blackout Boosts Australian Bank by Up to $215 Million Macquarie earned a windfall when the deep freeze in Texas sent energy markets into a tailspin
2021-02-22 07:33:00 Markets Marriott Bets on the ‘Bleisure’ Lifestyle In a world changed by the pandemic, the hotel chain’s key to recovery may be mixing business with pleasure
2021-02-22 07:14:00 Markets The New Commodity Super Cycle Might Not Have Wheels Short-term imbalances between supply and demand may justify a 10-year high for copper prices, but staying there would prove more challenging
2021-02-22 07:03:00 Markets An Investor Shortcut for Net-Zero Ambitions How a company uses carbon emission offsets can help identify risky businesses
2021-02-22 06:55:00 Business Jay-Z and LVMH Pop the Cork in Champagne Tie-Up Luxury goods giant LVMH acquires 50% of Armand de Brignac as pandemic takes fizz out of Champagne sales
2021-02-22 06:55:00 Markets SoftBank’s Other Big E-Commerce Bet Is About to Pay Off The coming New York IPO of Korea’s fast-growing Coupang looks like another windfall for SoftBank’s Vision Fund
2021-02-22 06:35:00 World Myanmar Protests: Hundreds of Thousands Take to the Streets During Strike to Oppose Coup Protesters use live-streaming, messaging apps and social media to exchange plans and alert one another of danger
2021-02-22 06:14:00 Markets China’s Online-Lending Curbs to Hit Big Tech Firms and Regional Banks Starting in 2022, internet-lending platforms will have to fund at least 30% of every loan they make jointly with commercial lenders
2021-02-22 06:00:00 Markets Brexit Isn’t Stopping U.K. Borrowers From Finding Cheap Money in Europe The ECB is buying bonds issued by European subsidiaries of U.K. companies such as BP and Diageo, helping reduce their borrowing costs
2021-02-22 05:33:00 Markets U.S. Retirement Crisis Hits Black Americans Hard Lower incomes and homeownership rates are contributing factors
2021-02-22 05:30:00 Life & Arts Elon Musk, Reed Hastings, Mary Barra: A Guide to Leadership From the Covid-19 Crisis The Wall Street Journal distilled takeaways on navigating the pandemic from profiles of business leaders
2021-02-22 05:30:00 CFO Journal Small Businesses Struggle to Assess Whether They Are Eligible for PPP Funds Privately owned firms are grappling with rules around affiliation, criteria on revenue declines
2021-02-22 05:30:00 Markets Historic Gains in Small Stocks Highlight Investor Exuberance Investors are piling into smaller companies and other cyclical stocks as booming market rally continues
2021-02-22 05:30:00 Politics Garland to Make Case for New Era at Justice Department Attorney general nominee plans to stress the importance of an independent DOJ at his Senate confirmation hearing on Monday
2021-02-22 05:22:00 China Beijing Plans Changes to Group Selecting Hong Kong’s Leader Chinese lawmakers are expected to vote on a proposal to transfer seats from elected councilors to pro-Beijing figures
2021-02-22 05:16:00 Markets Stock Futures Drop, Pointing to Retreat in Technology Shares Nasdaq-100 futures fell, suggesting that major tech stocks will retreat after the opening bell and weigh on the major indexes
2021-02-22 05:00:00 Politics PPP to Offer Exclusive Covid-19 Loan Application Window for Smallest Businesses Changes for relief funding seek to improve access for tiny firms and minority-owned businesses
2021-02-22 04:54:00 Markets Allied Universal Set to Create Private-Security Giant With G4S Deal Battle to acquire G4S was all but won by a $5.3 billion bid from Warburg-Backed Allied Universal, as a rival bidder bowed out
2021-02-21 22:29:00 World Another North Korean Diplomat Defects to South Korea Ryu Hyon U is among a number of ambassador-level officials who have fled Kim Jong Un’s regime in recent years
2021-02-21 22:14:00 Business FAA Orders Immediate Inspections After United Engine Failure U.S. air-safety regulators said move affects only United Airlines, and follows grounding of certain Boeing 777 models by Japanese counterparts
2021-02-21 21:33:00 Markets M&T Bank Nears Deal to Buy People’s United for More Than $7 Billion The companies are discussing an all-stock deal that could be announced as soon as this week
2021-02-21 20:17:00 Deals Activist Investors Nominate Nine Directors to Kohl's Board The group controls a combined 9.5% stake in the department-store chain
2021-02-21 20:00:00 Life & Arts How to Be Funny—Not Offensive—at Work Having a sense of humor can defuse tension and build camaraderie among co-workers. But when jokes go too far, they can alienate, anger and offend your colleagues.
2021-02-21 20:00:00 Deals Starboard SPAC Nears $3.4 Billion Deal for Data-Center Company Cyxtera Existing owners of Cyxtera, including private-equity firms BC Partners and Medina Capital, plan to roll their equity stakes into the combined company
2021-02-21 19:00:00 U.S. Cuomo Feuds With New York Lawmakers Amid Outcry Over Nursing Homes Relations sour at a critical negotiating period for the state’s budget
2021-02-21 17:19:00 Opinion Why Cuomo Should Be Worried About a Federal Probe His administration appears to have engaged in a coverup to frustrate federal oversight.
2021-02-21 16:58:00 Opinion The Money Boom Is Already Here Since February 2020, the M2 supply has increased 26%—the largest one-year jump since 1943.
2021-02-21 16:57:00 Opinion ‘Stimulus’ Does Little for Jobs Companies won’t make permanent investments in new employees based on temporary revenue.
2021-02-21 16:54:00 Opinion AMLO’s Plan to Drop Texas Gas Gov. Greg Abbott inadvertently gives Mexico protectionist arguments in energy.
2021-02-21 16:52:00 Opinion The Most Popular Shows You’ve Never Seen Even when TV was a ‘vast wasteland,’ it brought us together.
2021-02-21 16:50:00 Books ‘Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher’ Review: A Heart in the Right Place The pioneer of head-transplant surgery believed that the soul resides in the brain and could be rescued from physically compromised bodies.
2021-02-21 15:31:00 Markets Restaurant-Software Provider Toast Prepares for IPO Toast taps Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase to underwrite a possible listing later this year
2021-02-21 15:00:00 Business When Covid-19 Hit, Mayo Clinic Had to Rethink Its Technology One example: The healthcare provider had to make close to 3,000 changes in its electronic health-records system
2021-02-21 15:00:00 Economy Economy Week Ahead: Fed, Jobless Claims, Consumer Spending Fed Chairman Jerome Powell will deliver the central bank’s semiannual report on the economy and monetary policy to Congress
2021-02-21 14:58:00 Opinion The Non-Covid Spending Blowout Most of the $1.9 billion House bill has little to do with the virus. Here’s a breakdown.
2021-02-21 14:55:00 Opinion Why Beijing Loves Biden and Paris The U.S. rejoins a climate pact that gives China a free carbon ride.
2021-02-21 14:13:00 Opinion Trump Is Flawed but Don’t Shun His Voters As William Galston points out, the only purge which is coming to pass, albeit thus far on the state level, is that of those isolated Republicans who voted to convict.
2021-02-21 14:11:00 Opinion Macron Fights Terror but Steps on Parents Emmanuel Macron is forcing through a law that effectively renders home schooling illegal for most parents.
2021-02-21 14:11:00 Opinion Big Automotive Chip Shortage Is No Surprise The focus on lean should have been balanced with a pragmatic view on the extreme cost of idled automotive production lines.
2021-02-21 13:47:00 World Israel Dodges Questions Over Vaccine-for-Prisoner Swap With Syria Prime Minister Netanyahu confirms negotiations with Russia but denies Israel supplied its own vaccines in deal to bring back an Israeli woman stuck in Syria
2021-02-21 13:47:00 Opinion A Stock-Trading Dupe Is Born Every Minute The recent hearing on Robinhood missed the basics of how pump-and-dumps work.
2021-02-21 13:46:00 Opinion WHO Said What About Wuhan? International investigators ignore the lab-leak theory but investigate frozen fish.
2021-02-21 13:16:00 Politics U.S. Report Allows Russian Pipeline Project to Proceed, for Now Lawmakers criticize Biden administration report that names no new Nord Stream 2 sanctions targets
2021-02-21 13:00:00 Business Employers Want More Diversity. They May Need to Open Offices in New Places. Research on race in the workplace suggests executives could close racial gaps within their ranks by being more strategic about geographic locations
2021-02-21 12:48:00 World Israel’s Speedy Vaccination Campaign Now Faces Key Test in Returning to Normal Officials combine incentives with threats, offering perks while warning that those who don’t get the shot will be shut out of everyday activities
2021-02-21 12:43:00 Politics Justice Pick Merrick Garland to Promise Confronting Extremist Violence President Biden’s nominee for U.S. attorney general faces Senate confirmation hearing Monday
2021-02-21 12:00:00 Life & Arts Is a Mid-Career M.B.A. Worth It? Here’s how a number of untraditional M.B.A. candidates leveraged the degree to pivot at work
2021-02-21 12:00:00 Business What’s Keeping Black Workers From Moving Up the Corporate Ladder? Companies have devoted a lot of attention to diversity in hiring and promotions. A new study offers clues as to why the efforts have fallen short—and what can be done to change that.
2021-02-21 11:00:00 Markets GameStop Craze Puts Holders of Retail ETF on Wild Ride State Street’s SPDR S&P Retail ETF shares have surged 23% this year
2021-02-21 10:00:00 Markets Bond Selloff Prompts Rethink by Stock Investors If yields rise more quickly and unpredictably than expected, that would be disruptive to assets like shares, many analysts say
2021-02-21 09:00:00 Life & Arts A Former Baseball Umpire Makes a Call to Become a Veterinarian On a visit to his father’s veterinary clinic, Chris Tiller’s childhood dreams came back as he saw his young son’s interest
2021-02-21 09:00:00 Politics Incitement Case Against Trump for Capitol Riot Would Present Challenges Legal experts say a prosecution could be an uphill battle
2021-02-21 08:50:00 Life & Arts Novak Djokovic Is Making an All-Time Tennis Case An 18th major title has the Serbian star just two trophies away from rivals Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal
2021-02-21 08:00:00 Markets British Pound Reaches Strongest Level in Nearly Three Years Rapid vaccinations and a trade deal with the EU have made some investors bullish on sterling
2021-02-21 08:00:00 World Travel’s Covid-19 Blues Are Likely Here to Stay—‘People Will Go Out of Business’ The tourism industry, which hoped for a rebound from the pandemic in 2021, is bracing for a slower recovery
2021-02-21 07:52:00 Business ‘Mick the Miner’ Looks to Recharge With Battery Metals One of the mining industry’s most prolific dealmakers, Mick Davis has set up a new fund to invest in metals required to store power
2021-02-21 07:00:00 World Can Mass Self-Testing for Covid-19 Keep Schools Safe? Austria is trying a new strategy to reopen classrooms, as scientists say infections can be reduced with the right safety measures
2021-02-21 05:40:00 Life & Arts Novak Djokovic Wins Australian Open, His 18th Grand Slam Title The 33-year-old Serbian beat Daniil Medvedev in straight sets to win his ninth title in Melbourne
2021-02-21 05:30:00 Business For Covid-19 Survivors, One Shot May Be Enough, Preliminary Studies Show Data may mean a second dose of the vaccine is unnecessary, potentially freeing up limited supply
2021-02-21 05:30:00 Markets SPACs Face New Test: A Wave of Asia-Focused Deals Tycoons in the region put money into U.S. blank-check companies as major local stock exchanges haven’t allowed such listings
2021-02-21 05:30:00 Economy Inflation Depends on Where You Look for It If the Fed’s low interest rates fuel problems, the reason might be climbing asset prices rather than consumer prices
2021-02-21 05:30:00 Business Restaurants and Startups Try to Outrun Uber Eats and DoorDash Big delivery-app fees gnaw at many restaurants; entrepreneurs and eateries pitch workarounds
2021-02-20 18:57:00 Business United Flight Lands in Denver Following Engine Failure Shortly After Takeoff Local police say engine debris damaged property in plane’s flight path, but report no injuries
2021-02-20 18:29:00 Politics Biden Visits Bob Dole After Former GOP Senator Announces Cancer Diagnosis Both men unsuccessfully sought their party’s 1988 presidential nomination
2021-02-20 18:15:00 U.S. Biden Declares Texas Winter Storm a Major Disaster Federal grants, low-cost loans can now go to those suffering from the power and water crisis
2021-02-20 18:08:00 Politics Trump to Speak at CPAC in First Public Appearance Since Leaving Office Former president to talk about future of GOP, Biden’s immigration policies
2021-02-20 14:21:00 Politics Biden to Hold Virtual Meeting With Canada’s Justin Trudeau Leaders plan to discuss Covid-19 response efforts, climate change and economic issues
2021-02-20 12:01:00 Business The New Disney CEO’s Covid Strategy Leans on Streaming Hits Like ‘WandaVision’ During the DVD boom, Bob Chapek championed movies made for at-home viewing—a useful strategy in the streaming age
2021-02-20 12:01:00 Life & Arts How the ‘Bring Back Our Girls’ Tweets Changed a War in Nigeria A well-meaning social-media campaign to free young women kidnapped by Boko Haram galvanized rescue efforts—and may have spurred the jihadist group to expand its use of gender violence
2021-02-20 12:00:00 Tech Online Speech Is Now an Existential Question for Tech Content moderation rules used to be a question of taste. Now, they can determine a service’s prospects for survival.
2021-02-20 12:00:00 Politics Biden’s First Month of Covid-19 Response Marked by Larger Federal Role Efforts to keep mask rules in place have had mixed results, and many school districts are still grappling with a return to in-person instruction
2021-02-20 11:46:00 Business IBM’s Retreat From Watson Highlights Broader AI Struggles in Health Watson Health was billed as a ‘bet the ranch’ move by Big Blue; now the company is prepared to throw in the towel
2021-02-20 11:00:00 Books How Much of the Marvel Universe Did Stan Lee Really Create? A new biography examines the iconic comic-book creator’s legacy including his role in shaping characters like Iron Man and the Hulk
2021-02-20 10:00:00 Life & Arts How Grandparents Help Out During Covid: Readers Respond Readers describe joys and challenges. ‘I feel like I’m a far better grandfather than I was a father.’
2021-02-20 10:00:00 Politics Big Tech Employees Opened Wallets for Biden Campaign Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple and Facebook made up biggest source of donations to Democrat among corporate employees
2021-02-20 09:00:00 World Teachers, Not Nurses, Get Covid-19 Vaccine Priority in Some Corners of Mexico In rural Campeche, some are furious the government inoculated teachers—a key voting bloc—ahead of nearly half the state’s health workers
2021-02-20 09:00:00 Tech New Mothers Are Lonely During Coronavirus. Mom-Shaming on Social Media Is Making It Worse. The pandemic has exacerbated the isolation of early motherhood; some apps are trying to create a safer space for new moms
2021-02-20 08:29:00 World Pope Francis Removes Conservative African Cardinal From Vatican Post Cardinal Robert Sarah of Guinea is often mentioned as a possible future pontiff
2021-02-20 08:00:00 Tech Elon Musk Got 4,000 SpaceX Workers to Join a Covid-19 Study. Here’s What He Learned. Tech billionaire joined with researchers to track infections; effort explored coronavirus immunity
2021-02-20 08:00:00 Markets Bitcoin’s Value Is All in the Eye of the ‘Bithodler’ The digital currency has skyrocketed, and yet determining its fair value is a tricky business
2021-02-20 08:00:00 Life & Arts Kamala Harris’s Jewelry Shines a Light on Designer Irene Neuwirth The Los Angeles jewelry designer is thriving after a year of pandemic belt-tightening and a boost from the vice president, a fan of her pearls and other pieces
2021-02-20 07:45:00 World Russian Court Upholds Prison Term for Putin Critic Navalny The opposition leader is due to spend around 2½ years behind bars after his appeal was denied
2021-02-20 05:30:00 Business Covid-19 Vaccination Delays Could Bring More Virus Variants, Impede Efforts to End Pandemic Scientists say high rates of viral spread in a partially immunized population could encourage mutations that make virus harder to contain
2021-02-20 05:28:00 Life & Arts Naomi Osaka Wins the Australian Open, Her Fourth Grand Slam Title Straight-set victory over Jennifer Brady is Osaka’s second title in Melbourne
2021-02-19 21:27:00 World U.N. Report Accuses Blackwater Founder Erik Prince of Libya Weapons Ban Violations, Diplomat Says Mr. Prince likely to be referred to the U.N.’s Sanctions Committee, which could order a freeze on his assets or a travel ban
2021-02-19 19:02:00 Markets Reddit Legend Keith Gill Boosts Stake in GameStop A screenshot of his brokerage account appears to show that he bought an additional 50,000 shares of the stock
2021-02-19 18:59:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Federal Judge Urges a DOJ Probe of Prosecutorial Conduct in Sanctions Case Judge Alison Nathan said potential disclosure violations by prosecutors weren’t intentional, but a review might help prevent failures in the future
2021-02-19 18:39:00 Opinion Biden’s Immigration Opportunity His proposal this week is dead on arrival, but smaller bills might pass.
2021-02-19 18:35:00 Opinion Inside the Mind of a Biden Regulator His CFPB pick wants a new agency to control politics and speech.
2021-02-19 18:31:00 Opinion Two Tales of the Vaccine A 90-year-old walks miles for the shot, as a 34-year-old sneaks in.
2021-02-19 18:30:00 Opinion Biden’s Art of the Iran Concession The new U.S. Administration hopes giving up leverage will get Tehran to talk.
2021-02-19 18:01:00 Media & Marketing Los Angeles Times Owner Exploring Sale of Company Patrick Soon-Shiong seeks exit after less than three years at the helm, as losses mount
2021-02-19 17:32:00 Books ‘Rough Ideas’ Review: Better vs. Greater To follow the pianist into his thoughts can deliver a view from ‘inside of the music.’
2021-02-19 17:06:00 Opinion Science Needs Criticism, Not Cheerleading ‘When we lower our standards to pretend we know what we don’t know, we diminish the work and misinform society,’ says Prof. John Staddon.
2021-02-19 17:03:00 Opinion Canada’s Covid Vaccine Failure Among other errors, 70% of the doses the government bought aren’t yet approved by its health officials.
2021-02-19 17:00:00 Opinion Texas-Style Blackouts Are the Future The grid is designed to shut down, and we’re designing it to shut down more often.
2021-02-19 16:58:00 Politics Sen. Joe Manchin Opposes Neera Tanden’s Nomination to Lead OMB West Virginia Democrat’s decision imperils Tanden’s chances of being confirmed by Senate
2021-02-19 16:51:00 U.S. Jersey City Places Police Department Under Civilian Leadership Unusual arrangement reflects changes in the roles of uniformed officers and civilians in police departments nationwide
2021-02-19 16:41:00 Markets U.S. Treasury Yields Log Biggest Weekly Gains in Over a Month Investors bet the economy will gain strength in the coming months
2021-02-19 16:38:00 Logistics Report Trucking, Freight Industry Seek Faster Route to Covid-19 Vaccinations A push by industry groups has the supply-chain sector jockeying for a place in line with other essential workers
2021-02-19 16:35:00 Hedge Funds Hedge Fund Bridgewater Reshuffles Leadership Ranks After Bruising Year Changes, including creation of an investment committee, are meant to help transition world’s largest hedge fund away from founder’s day-to-day leadership
2021-02-19 16:21:00 Politics Storms Delayed Shipments of About 6 Million Vaccine Doses, White House Says Shots held up by three days across U.S. in severe winter weather are expected to arrive within coming week
2021-02-19 16:19:00 Politics Six More Alleged Members of Oath Keepers Militia Indicted Indictment charges individuals from Florida, Ohio and North Carolina for planning Jan. 6 attack on Capitol
2021-02-19 16:17:00 CFO Journal La-Z-Boy’s CFO Prepares to Become CEO Amid Surge in Furniture Buying Melinda Whittington wants to position the company for sustained growth after the pandemic home-improvement spree ends
2021-02-19 16:02:00 New York Fed’s Williams Not Worried About Rise in Bond Yields Fed official says the rise reflects the prospect of a strengthening economy
2021-02-19 15:50:00 Opinion Don’t Write Off Donald Trump Prematurely Whether he will remain a significant player politically or not, only time will tell.
2021-02-19 15:49:00 Opinion On the Very Wide Variation in Medical Costs Until Medicaid and Medicare pay at least the full cost of care for patients, the rates charged to private insurance companies will never make sense.
2021-02-19 15:46:00 Opinion The Vote to Acquit Trump Had Many Facets No country-club, genteel Republican will win national office again, only fighters like Donald Trump.
2021-02-19 15:39:00 U.S. Migrants Crowd Border Crossing as Biden Administration Begins Undoing Trump Policy Only a few people from Remain in Mexico program allowed into San Diego, but others lined up; ‘The news said they were going to reopen’
2021-02-19 15:31:00 Opinion The New York Death Toll A new study on the impact of the Cuomo nursing-home order.
2021-02-19 15:20:00 Politics U.S. Officially Rejoins Paris Climate Agreement Move comes as President Biden makes tackling global warming one of four crises he aims to address
2021-02-19 14:55:00 U.S. Lawyer Convicted in College-Admissions Scandal Avoids Disbarment Court orders two-year suspension of Gordon Caplan’s law license but allows former co-chair of Willkie Farr & Gallagher to practice again later
2021-02-19 14:19:00 Life & Arts Zoom Shirts Are Out. Zoom Fashion Is In. After a dispiriting year of living and working through video, women are investing in fashion and accessories that truly shine on-screen. How to make an impact from the waist up.
2021-02-19 14:16:00 Life & Arts Zoom Beauty: How to Upgrade Your Skin Care Staring at themselves on video has made women everywhere reconsider their beauty routines. Here, an expert guide to looking (relatively) flawless on camera.
2021-02-19 14:06:00 Opinion Seeing Red and Feeling Blue: America’s Rotten National Mood Injury can bring a country together. But this is a compound fracture to the national psyche.
2021-02-19 14:04:00 Opinion Big Labor May Save New York From AOC’s Socialism Even public-sector unions favor old-style incumbent Democrats to radical insurgents like her.
2021-02-19 14:02:00 Politics Biden to Sign Federal Disaster Aid for Texas President plans to travel to Texas soon as state grapples with power outages and aftermath of winter weather
2021-02-19 13:55:00 Life & Arts Artist Niki de Saint Phalle Took Joy Seriously The exuberant monuments of the French-American sculptor are the focus of a new exhibition at MoMA PS1.
2021-02-19 13:53:00 World Biden Defends Democracy at Summits With European Allies, Seeing China as ‘Stiff’ Competition ‘We must demonstrate that democracies can still deliver for our people,’ president says
2021-02-19 13:14:00 Politics Capitol Police Probe Actions of Dozens of Officers Senate committees plan hearing next week with security officials
2021-02-19 13:11:00 Masterpiece Respite on the River Thomas Eakins’s 1871 painting ‘Max Schmitt in a Single Scull’ depicts a rower’s momentary ease.
2021-02-19 12:43:00 Life & Arts How Serious Are Biden and the Democrats About Fighting Climate Change? To make real progress on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, President Biden and Congress will need to break with environmentalist dogmas.
2021-02-19 11:44:00 Politics Merrick Garland, Biden’s Pick for Attorney General, Will Finally Get His Hearing Justice Department veterans hope his appointment will bring a steady hand after a tumultuous period
2021-02-19 11:17:00 Books ‘Tom Stoppard’ Review: A Playwright in Arcadia Tragedy marked the writer’s early life, but his career has been a celebration of the gifts of intellect and freedom.
2021-02-19 11:15:00 Books ‘The Border’ Review: Neighbors of the Empire Setting out to understand Russia from the outside, an author journeys through the cultures at its margins.
2021-02-19 11:13:00 Books Fiction: ‘In Memory of Memory’ Review A writer goes in search of her forebears, but finds ‘too much past’ to tell the story straight.
2021-02-19 11:12:00 Markets Why Your Wild Trading Ideas Feel So Right For investors, that ‘gut feeling’ can be more powerful than they realize. Here’s how to listen to your gut without being ruled by it
2021-02-19 11:11:00 Books ‘Days in the Caucasus’ Review: A Childhood in Baku In a booming oil town during the tumult of revolution and after, memories of beauty and suffering.
2021-02-19 11:00:00 Business Companies Aren’t Saving Their Pennies as Markets Turn Bubbly Thrift is in a bear market as even the riskiest borrowers rush to issue new debt. That world may not last forever.
2021-02-19 10:59:00 Books Five Best: Lives of Literary Lesbians Selected by Selina Hastings, the author, most recently, of ‘Sybille Bedford: A Life.’
2021-02-19 10:58:00 Life & Arts What Gene Editing Can Do for Humankind The new biotechnology called CRISPR offers the prospect of defeating lethal viruses and curing genetic diseases, even as it raises serious moral questions
2021-02-19 10:56:00 Books Children’s Books: ‘The Sea-Ringed World’ Review Glimpses of magic and mystery in origin stories from a panoply of cultures.
2021-02-19 10:52:00 Books ‘Aristophanes’ Review: Laughter on the Acropolis The Greek comedian wasn’t afraid to challenge the powers that be. Or crack a dirty joke.
2021-02-19 10:51:00 Books Mysteries: ‘The Mercenary’ Review The story of a spy who gets a second chance keeps its cards close to the vest.
2021-02-19 10:49:00 Books ‘Endpapers’ Review: Publishing the Pantheon The story of a family’s bifurcated fate shines a light on the history of postwar literature.
2021-02-19 10:44:00 Economy U.S. Home Sales Edged Higher in January Amid Tight Inventory Lack of homes for sale help push prices up 14.1% from a year earlier
2021-02-19 09:59:00 World Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Lose Remaining Royal Family Roles Couple, now living in California, will no longer be working royals, Buckingham Palace says
2021-02-19 09:57:00 Experience Report Zillow Rolls Out Interactive Floor Plans as Video Tours Fall Flat House-buyers and browsers want 3D walk-throughs and floor plans, not prerecorded video tours
2021-02-19 09:55:00 Markets On YouTube, GameStop Hearing Just Another Pumping Opportunity Viewing the congressional hearing on YouTube provided another opportunity to receive questionable investment advice
2021-02-19 09:50:00 Life & Arts Why This Japanese Hot Spring Lures Time Travelers and Anime Fans Dogo Onsen, among Japan’s oldest bathhouses, still has unquenchable star power. Plus five other of the country’s most beloved hot springs and ryokans to book on your post-pandemic trip.
2021-02-19 09:24:00 Markets Hermès Shows Little Wear From Covid-19 Pandemic Despite a threadbare ad budget, the French brand was the best performer in the luxury industry last year
2021-02-19 09:02:00 Life & Arts Jeff Immelt on the Humbling of GE In a new book, the former head of the once-mighty company admits he made mistakes but argues he faced ‘bad news almost every day’
2021-02-19 09:00:00 Business U.S. Hiring Alliances Help Tens of Thousands Find Jobs Last spring, companies with urgent staffing needs formed partnerships with companies hard-hit by the pandemic to match furloughed workers with open jobs. Those alliances are paying off.
2021-02-19 09:00:00 Markets Volatility Could Be GameStop Crowd’s Next Losing Bet A rush of cash into a leveraged volatility note might only pay off if disaster strikes the rest of the stock market
2021-02-19 08:28:00 Life & Arts The Honda CR-V Goes Hybrid—Watch Out, Toyota The rivalry between America’s most popular compact crossovers, the Toyota RAV4 and the Honda CR-V, heats up as the latter debuts in hybrid form, writes cars columnist Dan Neil.
2021-02-19 08:26:00 Tech Lawmakers in U.K., Canada Slam Facebook After Australia News Blackout Criticism comes as authorities are growing increasingly concerned about Facebook’s market power
2021-02-19 08:10:00 Business Honda Taps New CEO for Electric-Vehicle Push Toshihiro Mibe has built Honda’s increasingly close alliance with General Motors
2021-02-19 07:04:00 Markets HSBC Doesn't Have to Give Documents to Huawei CFO, U.K. Judge Says U.S. Justice Department has accused Meng Wanzhou of misleading the bank about Huawei’s ties to Iran
2021-02-19 07:00:00 Markets Shale Companies Re-Emerge at Slippery Time Oil-and-gas producers coming out of bankruptcy could be tempted to grow aggressively again with today’s higher prices
2021-02-19 07:00:00 World Aerial Attacks on Saudi Arabia Expose Vulnerability of U.S. Ally Drones and missiles launched in the past month from Yemen and Iraq show gaps in air defenses, as Biden reconsiders U.S. policy
2021-02-19 06:08:00 Markets India’s Stock Market Mania Defies Economic Reality India’s stocks are outperforming those in similar markets, even as the pandemic may have exacerbated its longer-term economic challenges
2021-02-19 05:50:00 Tech Uber Faces Setback as U.K. Court Rules Drivers Entitled to Worker Rights Some Uber drivers are owed rights including minimum wage and paid vacations, U.K. court says
2021-02-19 05:30:00 Markets KKR Executive’s Push to Spread Employee Stock Ownership Begins to Gain Traction Giving a stake to workers makes them more engaged and creates a stronger culture, the buyout firm’s Pete Stavros says
2021-02-19 05:30:00 Markets All Your Covid Tax Questions, Answered Make sure you’re up to speed on all the ways the pandemic reshuffled the tax rules—and complicated your filing
2021-02-19 05:30:00 Politics Capitol Riot Criminal Cases Flood D.C. Federal Court Semi-retired senior judges are stepping up to take on full criminal case loads, as every filing is watched closely
2021-02-19 05:30:00 U.S. The Return on Investment for 2021 Super Bowl Ads Companies spent roughly $485 million on commercials during the NFL title game. Was it worth it?
2021-02-19 05:30:00 Markets Bitcoin Is Hitting Record Highs. Why It’s Not Too Late to Dig for Digital Gold. Investors intrigued by bitcoin’s surge but reluctant to buy it have some options for how to bet on the evolution of banking and payments. But they’re not cheap.
2021-02-19 05:30:00 World Covid-19 Was Spreading in China Before First Confirmed Cases, Fresh Evidence Suggests The number, and genetic sequencing, of the first cases identified by China suggest coronavirus was spreading before early December 2019
2021-02-19 05:30:00 Markets Underfunded and Under Pressure, U.S. Pensions to Keep Investing in China Large U.S. pension plans relying on ambitious returns to fill massive shortfalls aren’t finding it easy to steer clear of regulatory risk in China
2021-02-19 05:24:00 Economy Global Economy Moving at Two Speeds as Factories Thrive Business surveys point to a further acceleration in manufacturing output, even as many service providers see continued declines
2021-02-19 05:04:00 Markets U.S. Stock Futures Rise Ahead of Economic Data S&P 500 futures ticked up, leaving the broad market benchmark on track to finish the week with muted losses
2021-02-19 04:40:00 World China Reveals Four of Its Soldiers Died in Border Clash With India Beijing on Friday disclosed casualties from the club-and-rock Himalayan melee that also killed 20 Indians in June last year
2021-02-19 03:26:00 World Single Dose of Pfizer Vaccine Is 85% Effective, Israeli Study Shows Peer-reviewed study comes as some governments debate whether to delay second vaccine doses
2021-02-18 23:41:00 Business Quibi Says Elliott Management Might Have Supported Patent Lawsuit Because of Personal Motive Hedge fund says defunct streaming service is focusing on ‘personal matters in order to put forward a false narrative’
2021-02-18 22:37:00 New York Nursing-Home Death Data Was Sought From Cuomo by U.S. Prosecutors Request came after governor’s top aide told lawmakers information was delayed out of fear Trump would politicize it
2021-02-18 20:21:00 Tech IBM Explores Sale of IBM Watson Health Business has roughly $1 billion in revenue and isn’t profitable, sources say
2021-02-18 20:18:00 Politics Major Donor Who Pleaded Guilty to Illegal Contributions, Influence Peddling Sentenced to 12 Years California businessman Imaad Zuberi used foreign money to fund illegal donations
2021-02-18 19:34:00 World Canada Weighs Lighter Criminal Sentences to Combat Racism Following protests across Canada after George Floyd’s death, the Trudeau government proposes repealing some mandatory sentences
2021-02-18 19:31:00 Business Roku’s Revenue Surges 58% on Pandemic-Fueled Streaming Boom Customers and marketers shift more of their attention away from TV and toward digital media
2021-02-18 19:04:00 BNY Mellon, Google Develop AI to Spot Treasury Trade Fails AI technology is aimed at the $20 trillion Treasury market where some 2% of transactions fail to settle on a typical day
2021-02-18 18:58:00 CIO Journal Technology Survives Texas Freeze but Weather Taxes Workers Critical technology infrastructure keeps operating, but companies say welfare of employees is a major concern
2021-02-18 18:50:00 World U.S. Says It Would Meet for Nuclear Talks With Iran, Other Powers Diplomats hope to hold physical meeting of senior officials in the next few weeks
2021-02-18 18:49:00 Opinion Rush Limbaugh’s Complicated Legacy He was a gifted entertainer and advocate, but in his later years certain flaws became more evident.
2021-02-18 18:47:00 Opinion Magic Money for the Rich The Biden Treasury has a plan to dodge Congress on IMF aid.
2021-02-18 18:46:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Coinbase Names New Chief Compliance Officer Melissa Strait joins the cryptocurrency exchange from Stripe
2021-02-18 18:45:00 Opinion Life on Mars? Let’s Go Find It NASA’s newest rover offers inspiration and soft power at a bargain.
2021-02-18 18:43:00 Opinion Trump Lost to Himself His own pollster shows why he became a one-term President.
2021-02-18 18:39:00 Opinion Biden Rescues Texas With . . . Oil The feds dispatch diesel generators to ease the Lone Star deep freeze.
2021-02-18 18:39:00 Business Facebook Blocks Collection of Sensitive Data Through Apps Following New York Probe Investigation followed Wall Street Journal article detailing unauthorized sharing of personal information with the social-media giant
2021-02-18 18:28:00 Life & Arts ‘Crypto’: Hidden From View, Yet on Everyone’s Lips An ancient term for something secret has been applied to many modern enigmas, including the hottest new form of currency
2021-02-18 18:26:00 Opinion Follow the Science, Not the Teachers Unions Biden’s CDC changes its tune for obvious political reasons.
2021-02-18 18:25:00 Opinion The Left Hated Rush Limbaugh Because He Had Their Number Even in death they called him ‘divisive,’ as if their attacks on America aren’t intended to sow division.
2021-02-18 18:25:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: Conservatism Is Now a Public-Health Risk Trump ‘chose judges for US courts who are dismissive of affirmative action and reproductive, labour, civil, and voting rights.’
2021-02-18 18:24:00 Opinion Return of the Swamp Creatures Democrats prepare to bring back earmarks. Republicans should resist the temptation.
2021-02-18 18:23:00 Books ‘Bugsy Siegel’ Review: A Slickly Lethal Gangster The stylish bootlegger helped merge rival gangs into a syndicate—and became known for doing his own hit jobs himself.
2021-02-18 18:22:00 Opinion A Slice of Persia in the Heart of Israel Followers of the Baha’i faith are persecuted at home but welcomed abroad.
2021-02-18 18:07:00 Markets GameStop Hearing Was No Fun for Free-Trading Business Model Questions were asked about Robinhood’s decision to restrict trading, but also about how it makes money from order flow. It will be hard to satisfy both concerns.
2021-02-18 17:58:00 Opinion While Houston Has Problems, a Touchdown on Mars American engineering lands another rover on the red planet. Imagine what it could do for Texas.
2021-02-18 17:57:00 U.S. Texas Cities Under Boil-Water Orders Hundreds of thousands are still without power; Some residents bring in shovelfuls of snow to flush toilets
2021-02-18 17:48:00 Film Review ‘Nomadland’ Review: A Tale of Roaming and Yearning Frances McDormand is a widow who takes to the road after losing her job and finds hope among fellow wanderers in Chloé Zhao’s feature
2021-02-18 17:47:00 Television Review ‘Allen v. Farrow’ Review: Revisiting the Case An HBO docuseries investigates Dylan Farrow’s 1992 child abuse allegations through interviews, home movies and revealing audiotapes.
2021-02-18 17:46:00 Opinion ‘Katie Roche’ and ‘The Book of Magdalene’ Reviews: A Pair of Saints The Mint Theater Company streams a 2013 production of Teresa Deevy’s little-known play; Houston’s Main Street Theater puts on a dystopian drama by Caridad Svich.
2021-02-18 17:44:00 Film Review ‘I Care a Lot’ Review: Guardian as Grifter Rosamund Pike stars in Netflix’s black comedy about a woman who takes advantage of her elderly wards.
2021-02-18 17:44:00 U.S. New York City Moves Forward With Electric-Scooter-Share Program Pilot program will run for at least a year in the East Bronx
2021-02-18 17:33:00 Television Review ‘Beartown’ Review: Accused Hometown Hero In an HBO drama based on Fredrik Backman’s novel, a sexual assault allegation forces the players of a local Swedish hockey team to pick sides.
2021-02-18 16:57:00 World Chinese Covid Vaccine Secretly Given to VIPs In Peru and elsewhere, some politicians and the well-connected got China’s Sinopharm shot months ahead of health workers and other vulnerable groups
2021-02-18 16:56:00 Books Bestselling Books Week Ended February 13 With data from NPD BookScan
2021-02-18 16:55:00 U.S. NASA Lands Perseverance Rover Safely on Mars After ‘Seven Minutes of Terror’ Two-year mission is the latest and most ambitious effort by NASA to find evidence of past life on the red planet
2021-02-18 16:51:00 U.S. Bob Dole Diagnosed With Lung Cancer Former GOP Senate leader and presidential candidate to start treatment next week
2021-02-18 16:38:00 Business Texas Restaurants and Grocers Hobbled by Cold Weather H-E-B is among chains shortening hours due to power cuts, road closures
2021-02-18 16:33:00 Politics Yellen Hopes to See $1.9 Trillion Relief Bill Enacted Over Next Couple of Weeks
2021-02-18 16:01:00 Business Rush Limbaugh’s Conservative Radio Show Will Remain on the Air, Despite Host’s Passing Voice of the media magnate will be the predominant one on radio show ‘until his audience is prepared to say goodbye,’ Premiere Networks says
2021-02-18 15:45:00 Politics Democrats Consider Piecemeal Approach to Immigration Bills Biden’s comprehensive immigration measure faces steep odds, so Democrats and advocates are looking for ways to pass narrower measures
2021-02-18 15:31:00 World Sex-Abuse Accusations Roil French Establishment Allegations against renowned scholar trigger outpouring of accounts from victims of childhood sexual abuse and a reckoning among the elite
2021-02-18 15:30:00 Life & Arts Cocido Madrileño For the classic experience, serve cocido in three courses with the traditional accoutrements: pickled piparra peppers, crusty bread, sliced spring onions and your favorite tomato sauce spiked with a hefty pinch of cumin. Or serve it all at once, as many locals do nowadays.
2021-02-18 15:29:00 Markets Palantir Becomes an Unlikely Darling of the GameStop Crowd Quarterly results and a lock-up expiration hit shares of the richly valued software maker, but it is finding support in online forums
2021-02-18 15:26:00 Pro PE Legal Regulatory GPB Capital Investors Ask Why the SEC Waited So Long to Act The agency sought an ‘emergency’ order to put the private-equity firm under a monitor years after red flags emerged
2021-02-18 15:23:00 Tech Tech Industry Challenges Maryland Online Ad Tax Lawsuit argues state’s newly enacted tax on digital advertising revenue represents an improper levy on the internet
2021-02-18 15:21:00 Life & Arts This Meaty Stew Recipe Is a Uniquely Satisfying Winter-Weekend Project In Spain, the nourishing and protein-packed stew cocido is a ritual that plays out over three courses. Even better, the leftovers provide more meals throughout the week.
2021-02-18 15:04:00 Business Volkswagen Considers Listing Minority Stake in Porsche German car maker could list a stake of as much as 25% in its sports car brand
2021-02-18 15:00:00 Business How Covid-19 Upended WWE World Wrestling Entertainment’s CFO outlines how the pandemic has altered the company’s live-event business model
2021-02-18 14:59:00 Knotel Strikes Deal With Creditors to Extend Bankruptcy Sale Process The office-space startup agreed to push back until March 12 a bid deadline for its assets to resolve creditor challenges over the tight sales timeline
2021-02-18 14:59:00 U.S. What Walmart Raises Mean for President Biden’s $15 Minimum-Wage Plan Supporters of a higher minimum wage can argue the move is proof employers can afford wage increases, while opponents can say it is an example of effective free-market forces
2021-02-18 14:58:00 Life & Arts Give Yourself Better Pep Talks A behavioral economist answers questions about self-talk, virtual office hangouts and return policies for big purchases.
2021-02-18 14:49:00 Life & Arts Ivy League Cancels Spring Sports Season Over Covid-19 Other conferences have played through the pandemic, but the Ivy League has remained completely on the sidelines since last March despite pressure from wealthy alumni
2021-02-18 14:35:00 Real Estate How to Avoid the 5 Worst Home Office Design Mistakes We asked designers and architects for the inspiration-crushing gaffes they see in residential workspaces, and what to do instead. Plus: the most egregious home-office setups they’ve witnessed.
2021-02-18 14:23:00 Opinion Gov. Cuomo’s Covid-19 Chickens Come Home Gov. Cuomo, sometime media darling, isn’t used to being called out, especially by members of his own party.
2021-02-18 14:20:00 Opinion Remember Inflation? It May Again Be Close Add to the proposed fiscal stimulus the record-breaking increase in the money supply M2 of more than 25% on a year-over-year basis and you have an enormous potential for future inflation.
2021-02-18 14:02:00 World U.S. Defense Chief Reassures Allies and Seeks More Spending in NATO Debut Austin aims to soothe allies after tensions with Trump administration, but maintain pressure on spending
2021-02-18 13:52:00 Politics Ted Cruz Says He Was Being a ‘Good Dad’ in Going to Cancún During Texas Freeze GOP Senator says he was flying back immediately after accompanying daughters to Mexico during emergency at home
2021-02-18 13:14:00 U.S. Former Illinois House Speaker Madigan Steps Down From Legislature Longest-serving speaker in U.S. history embroiled in bribery investigation
2021-02-18 13:12:00 Life & Arts Unlucky in Dental Surgery and Ready for Worse I figure it’s just a matter of time before lightning strikes me—or a shark attacks
2021-02-18 13:11:00 Tech Clubhouse and Twitter Spaces: The New Way to Play, Network and Escape Video Calls Even if it’s a pandemic-boosted fad, there are real reasons chatty, audio-only social media makes sense
2021-02-18 13:09:00 Markets U.S. Natural Gas Shortage Hampers Blackout Recovery Frozen oil and gas wells and pipeline infrastructure have reduced the fuel available to power plants
2021-02-18 12:35:00 Opinion We’ll Have Herd Immunity by April Covid cases have dropped 77% in six weeks. Experts should level with the public about the good news.
2021-02-18 12:33:00 Opinion Is Greta Thunberg Conspiring Against India’s Tea? Modi’s ruling party alleges that the West wants to see it fail, but the real threats are internal divisions.
2021-02-18 12:19:00 World In Hunt for Covid-19 Origin, WHO Team Focuses on Two Animal Types in China Investigators say ferret badgers and rabbits sold at Wuhan market could have played a role in the spread to humans
2021-02-18 12:11:00 Life & Arts Fancy Stuffies The original stuffies were simple, with bread as a binder for the clam stuffing. This recipe is a bit fancier, a nice hors d’oeuvre with cocktails or addition to a tapas-style spread.
2021-02-18 12:02:00 Life & Arts This Classic New England Seafood Recipe Brings the Beach Home Big, briny and warmed up with spice, Rhode Island-style stuffies are a seaside vacation baked to order. These stuffed clams freeze well, too, so you can keep them on hand for near-instant gratification anytime.
2021-02-18 11:51:00 Markets Don’t Let Walmart’s Slowing Sales Fool You Walmart’s future revenue growth could be limited, but the retailer has ways to juice its bottom line
2021-02-18 11:46:00 CMO Today Omnicom Beats Expectations but Urges Caution as Pandemic Continues Owner of ad agencies BBDO and DDB reported revenue dip in fourth quarter of 9.3%
2021-02-18 11:42:00 Markets Tiny-Company Boom Makes Markets Look Silly Six members of the Russell Microcap index have risen so much that they are now larger than the smallest S&P 500 stocks
2021-02-18 11:01:00 Life & Arts Do We Need an Anti-Nobel Prize? From assigning credit for discoveries to teaching AIs to think, rewarding success is a crucial but difficult task for science.
2021-02-18 11:00:00 Business Michaels Stores’ Strategy for Keeping the Covid Bump Alive The company’s CEO is moving away from the general crafts market and targeting a different kind of do-it-yourselfer
2021-02-18 10:52:00 Life & Arts Why Chile Crisp Is Still Trending Sometimes a viral food sensation is all it’s cracked up to be. This crunchy condiment truly rejuvenates jaded palates.
2021-02-18 10:50:00 Markets Who Are Keith Gill and Other Key Players at the GameStop Hearing? Panel to focus on recent volatility in shares of GameStop and other companies
2021-02-18 10:25:00 Markets No Pandemic Sugar Rush for Nestlé Swiss maker of KitKat candy bars hasn’t seen the same sales spikes as other snack giants during the pandemic, but looks steadier in the long run
2021-02-18 10:00:00 Life & Arts The Nets Might Have the Best Offense and Worst Defense in NBA History Brooklyn reflects a philosophical shift across basketball: Is more offense the most effective defense?
2021-02-18 09:58:00 Real Estate Land Rush Is On in Four States That Approved Recreational Pot Last Year Owners of warehouses, retail space able to charge a premium when selling or renting to businesses in the cannabis industry
2021-02-18 09:26:00 Markets Barclays’ Partial Victory Lap Last year validated Jes Staley’s decision to keep the lender’s investing banking business, but he still must show that the bank can generate decent overall returns
2021-02-18 08:57:00 Life & Arts We’re Still Dreaming of Mars and Martians Long before probes discovered the truth about Mars, stories about its inhabitants helped us understand the best and worst of humanity.
2021-02-18 08:44:00 Politics Robinhood, Citadel, Others Prepare for the GameStop Spotlight in Washington House committee plans to question executives, investors about the recent options drama
2021-02-18 08:39:00 Markets GameStop, Twilio, Walmart: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today U.S. stock futures fell; House committee to hold hearing on GameStop’s rise
2021-02-18 08:38:00 Business Winter Weather Sows Havoc Across U.S. Farm Sector Tyson, Cargill suspend some meat processing; ranchers race to save newborn calves
2021-02-18 08:36:00 Business Walmart Promises Raises for 425,000 Workers After Strong Holiday Sales Retailer’s comparable U.S. sales jumped 8.6% in fourth quarter, with 69% gain in e-commerce
2021-02-18 08:27:00 WSJ. Magazine The Best Decision Bill Gates Ever Made The philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft and author of ‘How to Avoid a Climate Disaster’ on the one talent he’s embarrassed he doesn’t have, the one book everyone should read and what he might do differently if he could do college over again.
2021-02-18 08:20:00 Markets The Market Shouldn’t Clip Airbus’s Wings The European plane maker has delivered good results, given that 2020 was the worst year in aviation history
2021-02-18 08:19:00 Markets Shipping Container Shortage Gives Commodity Prices Extra Boost Traders face soaring rates to move goods by sea in 40-foot steel boxes, snarling global supply chains for some raw materials
2021-02-18 08:00:00 Economy Fed's Brainard: Climate Change Already Affecting Economy, Financial System Ignoring global warming risks will bring costs, Fed governor says
2021-02-18 08:00:00 CIO Journal Delta Taps IBM to Move More Applications to the Cloud Deal will accelerate a cloud-migration plan started in 2018, Delta CIO says
2021-02-18 07:55:00 Life & Arts A Rivalry Turned Romp: Naomi Osaka Powers Past Serena Williams in the Australian Open The 23-year-old will face American Jennifer Brady in Saturday’s women’s final
2021-02-18 07:48:00 Business Marriott Posts First Annual Loss Since 2009 Revenue fell as coronavirus pandemic sapped demand
2021-02-18 07:47:00 Tech The Day Facebook Went Dark on News Australians were caught off guard by Facebook’s decision to remove news in a deepening spat with the government over payment for content
2021-02-18 07:45:00 Markets Who Are Keith Gill and Other Key Players at the GameStop Congressional Hearing? Panel to focus on recent volatility in shares of GameStop and other companies
2021-02-18 07:12:00 World Chinese Consumers Were Big Spenders During the Lunar New Year Holiday Consumption at major retailers and restaurants over the seven-day holiday hit $127 billion
2021-02-18 07:00:00 World How Will Covax Deliver Covid-19 Vaccines to Poorer Countries? WHO-backed facility is world’s main effort to get shots to developing nations
2021-02-18 07:00:00 World What ‘The Hunger Games’ Three-Finger Salute Means to Protesters Across Asia Borrowed from the literary and film series and popularized by Thai protesters in 2014, the gesture has become a prominent symbol against this month’s coup in Myanmar
2021-02-18 07:00:00 World These Doctors Want to Pick Their Covid-19 Vaccine, Fearing Reactions, Lower Efficacy EU leaders pressured AstraZeneca to deliver more doses of its vaccine, but now find some people balk at the shot
2021-02-18 06:00:00 Finance Apollo Names Ex-SEC Chairman Jay Clayton as Lead Independent Director Newly created board role is latest step in sweeping overhaul of corporate governance at investment firm
2021-02-18 05:47:00 Markets Barclays Trading Arm Provides Lifeline Through Pandemic Vigorous market trading makes up for Covid-19-related challenges at the bank
2021-02-18 05:38:00 Markets Baidu Hops Aboard the Electric-Vehicle Express The company has hit all the right tones by announcing a foray into EVs—one of the hottest investment themes right now
2021-02-18 05:30:00 Economy Jobless Claims Set to Keep Easing as U.S. Economy Picks Up Fewer worker filings for unemployment insurance are among the signs the U.S. economic recovery is picking up after winter lull
2021-02-18 05:30:00 Markets How Redditors Find the Next GameStop Stock On the surface, WallStreetBets looks like a casino, but an analysis of the stocks that take off reveals some common factors that drive the winners
2021-02-18 05:30:00 Markets ETFs With Less Transparency Face Slow Rollout New fund type combines features of mutual funds and traditional exchange-traded funds
2021-02-18 05:30:00 Life & Arts At 22, the Padres’ Fernando Tatís Jr. Agrees to the Longest Baseball Contract Ever The budding superstar’s 14-year, $340 million contract with San Diego ties team and player together for the long run–with risks for both.
2021-02-18 05:30:00 Pro Cyber Commentary & Analysis States Push Internet Privacy Rules in Lieu of Federal Standards Data protection bills in Washington and Virginia come as the pandemic pushes life further online
2021-02-18 04:34:00 Markets Stock Futures Slip Ahead of Earnings, Labor-Market Data S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 futures slid, suggesting that giant technology companies will continue their retreat after the opening bell
2021-02-18 03:50:00 Markets Credit Suisse Posts Loss Despite Boost From Investment Bank The investment banking side booked bumper fees from companies raising stock and bonds
2021-02-18 03:46:00 Markets Everything’s Glittering Except Gold In the current market frenzy, the original speculative asset is struggling to capture investors’ imaginations
2021-02-18 03:13:00 Life & Arts Tokyo Olympics Names New Chief Just Months Before Games Former speedskater Seiko Hashimoto, currently Olympics minister, to lead organizing committee after predecessor quit over sexist remarks
2021-02-17 22:52:00 World Executives at U.S. Navy Contractor Charged With Dumping Contaminated Water in Japan Indictment says ships’ oily fluid wasn’t treated properly before discharge into ocean; company has denied wrongdoing
2021-02-17 19:43:00 CIO Journal J.B. Hunt Enlists Google to Match Carriers With Shippers The transport company seeks to strengthen its freight brokerage business, a market facing competition from digital-only upstarts
2021-02-17 19:06:00 Tyson Foods Reaches Partial Deal to Save the Beef at Bankrupt Easterday Ranches Meat giant will start moving some cattle to rival ranches while bankruptcy feud continues
2021-02-17 18:50:00 Politics Biden Allies to Launch Advocacy Group to Promote Covid-19 Relief Plan, Other Policies The nonprofit’s working name is ‘Building Back Together,’ expected to launch next month
2021-02-17 18:48:00 Opinion Texas Spins Into the Wind An electricity grid that relies on renewables also needs nuclear or coal power.
2021-02-17 18:40:00 Business Oil Prices Are Up, but Frackers Stay on the Sidelines—for Now Some producers are unable to benefit from the rally as they work to restore output in Texas and other regions hit hard by winter storms
2021-02-17 18:33:00 Opinion Emmanuel Macron and the Woke The French president challenges American campus and media leftism.
2021-02-17 18:31:00 Opinion A Covid Bill’s Hidden Tax Increase The House bill raises $22 billion by tweaking rules on multinationals.
2021-02-17 18:20:00 Life & Arts NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover on Track for Ambitious Landing, Search for Alien Life The SUV-size rover and a tiny robotic helicopter are scheduled to touch down on Mars on Thursday, beginning quest to find evidence of past biological activity
2021-02-17 18:14:00 Politics Biden, Union Leaders Huddle on Infrastructure Plan President says U.S. is ‘so far behind the curve’ on rebuilding roads and bridges
2021-02-17 18:11:00 Opinion Trump Smears Don’t Diminish McConnell The master of the Senate isn’t going anywhere, whatever the ex-president says.
2021-02-17 18:10:00 Opinion The Risks of Skimping on Covid Relief Some economists warn about too much spending, but too little could hurt the economy more.
2021-02-17 18:10:00 Politics Biden, Netanyahu Hold Their First Phone Call of Biden’s Presidency White House noted a shared commitment ‘to strengthen all aspects of the U.S.-Israel partnership’
2021-02-17 18:09:00 Opinion An American Belt and Road Initiative? China is funding massive projects all over the world, and gaining influence. The U.S. can do the same.
2021-02-17 18:07:00 Opinion The Intercession of the Grateful Dead Picking up the rosary again is like returning to a fireside feast.
2021-02-17 18:06:00 Opinion Covid Catches Andrew Cuomo Like Trump, Cuomo has tried to impose himself on Covid. It may not end well for him, either.
2021-02-17 18:05:00 Books ‘Dress Codes’ Review: From Frock Coat to Flip-Flops Even the subdued language of business casual—oxford shirt, khakis, loafers, fleece vest—speaks volumes via the codes of fashion.
2021-02-17 18:04:00 CFO Journal HP Makes Its Interim Finance Chief Permanent Tech giant named Marie Myers as chief financial officer, effective immediately
2021-02-17 18:04:00 U.S. U.S. Agents Seize 10 Million Counterfeit N95 Face Masks Federal officials urge hospitals, clinics to stop using suspected fake 3M masks
2021-02-17 18:00:00 Business Theranos Lab Chief Says He Found Blood-Testing Technology Didn’t Work Kingshuk Das is expected to testify at Elizabeth Holmes’s fraud trial that he faced pushback over concerns he raised
2021-02-17 16:53:00 U.S. New Winter Storm Threatens Fragile Power Grids in Texas, Other Parts of U.S. Second storm will prolong icy conditions for many already struggling with snow and extreme temperatures
2021-02-17 16:52:00 Opinion Biden’s Endless Winter After running as a moderate, he now promotes unlimited government spending.
2021-02-17 16:38:00 Business Google to Pay News Corp for Access to Its Publications’ Content Wall Street Journal parent is said to get tens of millions of dollars from Google as part of three-year licensing deal
2021-02-17 16:38:00 Fed Officials and Staff Mulled Financial Stability Risks at January FOMC Meeting Minutes show officials weren’t all of one mind regarding risks
2021-02-17 16:36:00 U.S. Cuomo Fires Back at Critic Over Nursing-Home Deaths The New York governor singled out a Democratic state lawmaker who has spoken out against his administration’s handling of information about Covid-19 fatalities
2021-02-17 16:30:00 World Brazil Turns Sleepy Sugarcane Town Into Global Covid-19 Experiment In the first study of its kind, researchers will immunize all of Serrana to discover how well vaccination can curb Covid-19 transmission
2021-02-17 16:09:00 Economy Fed Officials Saw Easy-Money Policies Remaining in Place Minutes of policy meeting in January show expectation of economic pickup but also persistent pandemic risks
2021-02-17 16:07:00 Financial Regulation GameStop Frenzy Prompts SEC to Weigh More Short Sale Transparency House lawmakers meeting Thursday plan to examine the GameStop trading and discuss the dearth of short-sale data
2021-02-17 16:06:00 Politics Democrats Face Intraparty Fight on Minimum Wage Progressives want $15 an hour by 2025, but procedural questions and centrists’ doubts could force changes to piece of Covid-aid proposal
2021-02-17 15:46:00 Opinion Rush Limbaugh The talk-radio host popularized conservative ideas and policies.
2021-02-17 15:40:00 Business Two Longtime Boeing Board Members Expected to Step Down Plane maker’s board has undergone changes since 737 MAX crashes in 2018, 2019
2021-02-17 15:36:00 Tech Facebook to Prohibit Sharing of News Content in Australia Tech giant says the government continues to misunderstand the relationship between publishers and the company’s social-media platform
2021-02-17 15:35:00 Life & Arts Why a Ski Vacation During Covid Is Worth the Hassle Jackson Hole and other popular ski resorts in the West are up and running with varying Covid rules and limitations. For purists, that’s not such a bad thing.
2021-02-17 15:33:00 Markets Melvin Capital Says It Was Short GameStop Since 2014 Hedge-fund manager Gabe Plotkin defends short-selling strategy in House testimony
2021-02-17 15:29:00 Screen Time What to Watch: Four New Releases to Stream This Week Elton John recommends ‘It’s a Sin’ on HBO Max and the award-contender ‘Nomadland’ comes to Hulu and more picks to add to your queue
2021-02-17 15:21:00 Politics Americans in Ghosn Escape Case Ask U.S. to Halt Extradition Attorneys for Michael and Peter Taylor, accused of helping auto titan Carlos Ghosn out of Japan, made the request in a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken
2021-02-17 15:15:00 Life & Arts Top Colleges in the South for Academic Resources Vanderbilt University heads this list from the WSJ/THE College Rankings
2021-02-17 15:10:00 Art Review ‘Goya’s Graphic Imagination’ Review: Etched in Blood and Acid A Met exhibition of more than 100 prints and drawings shows the Spanish artist’s often macabre social critiques.
2021-02-17 15:02:00 Markets Texas Freeze Heats Up Some Refiners Unusually cold Texas weather is both good and bad for oil refiners as margins get a boost, but some are unable to capitalize
2021-02-17 15:01:00 Life & Arts Could G-Shock Be the New Rolex? Why Discerning Collectors Are Coveting $180 Watches Thrifty, functional tickers by brands like Timex and Swatch have become highly desirable—and it’s not just because John Mayer collaborated with Casio
2021-02-17 14:43:00 Politics North Korea Turning to Cryptocurrency Schemes in Global Heists, U.S. Says Justice Department charges North Koreans hackers in wide-ranging scheme that included attempts to steal $1.3 billion for Pyongyang
2021-02-17 14:23:00 Tech Texas Winter Storm Strikes Chip Makers, Compounding Supply Woes Samsung, NXP and others are asked to power down factories in state to help conserve energy
2021-02-17 14:13:00 Opinion What a $15 Minimum Wage Will Really Do Raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour would greatly hurt the economy, and the young and underqualified will be the ones to suffer if this is enacted.
2021-02-17 14:11:00 Opinion L.A. Teachers Union Is Disingenuous on Covid The district must know that Covid vaccines are not currently approved for use in children under 16. Thus, a vaccination requirement for enrollment is something that can’t be realized.
2021-02-17 14:10:00 Opinion Race Belongs in the ACS, Not in the Census The American Community Survey’s scope, frequency and granularity can understand discrimination in ways not possible with the decennial census, the target of my “quit counting race” statement.
2021-02-17 13:58:00 Business Saudi Arabia Set to Raise Oil Output Amid Recovery in Prices World’s largest oil exporter plans to reverse recent unilateral production cut, signaling confidence in recovery
2021-02-17 13:11:00 Markets Filing an Insurance Claim for Texas Storm Damage? Payouts Hinge on Policy Details Consumer activists lament growing diversity of basic homeowners policies; on the plus side is the increased use of mobile apps for filing
2021-02-17 13:02:00 World Rush Limbaugh Is Dead at 70; Right-Wing Radio Host Shaped Politics Media personality influenced conservative discourse for decades
2021-02-17 12:52:00 A Closer Look Excerpts from “The Sea-Ringed World” by Maria Garcia Esperon and Illustrated by Amanda Mijangos
2021-02-17 12:34:00 Life & Arts A Road Trip to the Real Shangri-La In Tibet, writer Ed Douglas seeks out the true story of a mythical world and a long-vanished kingdom
2021-02-17 12:20:00 Tech New York State Sues Amazon Over Worker Treatment During Covid-19 Pandemic Company says attorney general’s case doesn't present accurate picture of its pandemic response
2021-02-17 12:20:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Cisco Systems Discloses Possible Embezzlement Scheme at Its China Operations The company is also investigating alleged payments to employees of Chinese state-owned enterprises, it said. Cisco has disclosed the matter to the U.S. Justice Department and the SEC
2021-02-17 12:11:00 A Closer Look Excerpts from “Sato the Rabbit” by Yuki Ainoya
2021-02-17 12:04:00 Logistics Report German Shipping Fleet Dwindles as Financing Dries Up The country’s once-robust shipping funds are shrinking as the maritime sector looks elsewhere to back a new generation of vessels
2021-02-17 11:51:00 Opinion My Mother Got Covid in a New York Nursing Home The truth is coming out about Cuomo’s disastrous policy. Families like mine demand accountability.
2021-02-17 11:49:00 Tech Is Growing Your Own Indoor Garden Worth It? Hydroponic countertop gardens that promise a bounty of lettuce, herbs and more are trending, but some say it takes weeks to get one salad. Here, the pros and cons.
2021-02-17 11:49:00 Opinion The Media Tries to Divide Republicans Praising Trump’s record and criticizing his conduct isn’t ‘having it both ways.’ It’s simply common sense.
2021-02-17 11:45:00 World U.K. Approves Trials That Will Deliberately Infect Volunteers With Coronavirus Controversial studies are aimed at understanding the virus and speeding vaccine development
2021-02-17 10:30:00 Life & Arts Fast Fried Rice Recipe: A Delicious Meatless Meal in 20 Minutes Dotted with sunchokes and topped with a rich mushroom gravy, this recipe delivers deep comfort, quickly
2021-02-17 10:30:00 Business Decoupling With China Would Hurt U.S. Businesses, Chamber of Commerce Says The group’s worst-case scenario envisions a crippling of major industries such as aviation and semiconductors
2021-02-17 10:12:00 Business Hyundai’s New Chairman Charts High-Tech Future—Without Apple, for Now Groomed for the job his entire life, the 50-year-old grandson of Hyundai’s founder plans for future beyond gas-guzzling cars
2021-02-17 10:08:00 Economy Universal Basic Income Could Be Coming for Kids Tax-credit proposals would send almost every parent $250 or more a month
2021-02-17 10:07:00 Markets Gucci’s Lower Price Tag Looks Justified Sales at the Italian brand have slipped further behind rival labels Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior in recent months
2021-02-17 10:07:00 Markets Shopify’s Fate Is Tied to That of Small Businesses Shopify is selling a post-pandemic growth narrative, but not everyone is buying it
2021-02-17 09:30:00 CFO Journal CFOs on the Hunt for Acquisitions Face High Prices, Strong Competition Companies have spent more than three times as much on fewer deals so far this year compared with a year ago
2021-02-17 08:41:00 Markets AIG, Avis Budget, Verizon: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today Minutes from the Fed’s latest meeting are due Wednesday afternoon
2021-02-17 08:22:00 NewsPlus Energy & Utilities Roundup: Market Talk The latest Market Talks covering Energy and Utilities
2021-02-17 07:38:00 World Dozens Missing in Nigeria’s Latest School Kidnapping One student was shot dead as gunmen stormed the school in the country’s northwest
2021-02-17 07:34:00 Business Rio Tinto’s New CEO Looks to Take More Risks Jakob Stausholm says the world’s second-largest mining company should be more aggressive in pursuing commodities used in low-carbon technologies
2021-02-17 07:23:00 World South Africa Rolls Out J&J Covid-19 Vaccine to Healthcare Workers Yet-to-be-authorized shot is administered after a clinical trial showed its efficacy against the new coronavirus strain first detected in South Africa
2021-02-17 07:18:00 Markets Dogecoin Has a Top Dog Worth $2.1 Billion A single digital address appears to have accumulated holdings in dogecoin, the cryptocurrency that was started as a joke
2021-02-17 07:09:00 U.S. New York City Subway Killings Prompt Push for More Police The NYPD says crime on trains and in stations is down, and city officials say the perception of crime is the main challenge
2021-02-17 07:00:00 Media & Marketing iHeartMedia to Acquire Triton Digital From Scripps Deal for audio advertising analytics and measurement services bolsters radio giant’s bet on podcasting
2021-02-17 07:00:00 Markets Buy Now, Pay Later Isn’t Winner Take All Competition between payment firms including PayPal and Affirm is intensifying, but the territory they are vying for is huge and diverse
2021-02-17 07:00:00 World In Brazil, People Illicitly Snag Vaccines and Brag About It Some line-cutters post their Covid-19 vaccine success on Instagram; lawmakers make flouting the rules a crime
2021-02-17 07:00:00 Markets Waiting for Big Pharma’s Coronavirus Profits to Impress Wall Street Vaccines and therapeutics for Covid-19 have been an unexpected windfall for the drug industry, but Wall Street is less enthusiastic about cash windfalls
2021-02-17 06:57:00 World ‘Hotel Rwanda’ Hero Paul Rusesabagina’s Terrorism Trial Begins Case is seen as an example of President Paul Kagame’s Efforts to squash political dissent beyond Rwanda’s borders
2021-02-17 06:39:00 Business Ford to Invest $1 Billion in German Electric-Vehicle Plant The announcement is the latest evidence of the industry’s rapid shift away from traditional engines
2021-02-17 06:18:00 World Kim Jong Un’s Wife, Ri Sol Ju, Goes to the Theater After a Year Out of the Spotlight North Korea’s first lady had been absent from state media since early 2020
2021-02-17 06:00:00 Markets Google and Facebook’s Trouble Down Under Will Spread Australian politicians want digital platforms to pay media companies more for their content. Regulators world-wide are watching closely.
2021-02-17 05:55:00 Business Gucci Lags Behind Rivals as Tourist Shoppers Stay Home Fourth-quarter results mark a sharp turnaround for the fashion house after years of outperformance
2021-02-17 05:43:00 Experience Report Kitchen Gadget Inventors Navigate Backlash to ‘Lazy’ Products Why are devices designed to make kitchen tasks easier attacked?
2021-02-17 05:30:00 Business Insiders at Covid-19 Vaccine Makers Sold Nearly $500 Million of Stock Last Year Executives at Moderna, Merck are among those who have reaped the biggest rewards
2021-02-17 05:30:00 Markets Wells Fargo’s $8 Billion Question: How to Slash Costs Without Angering Regulators Bank says meeting regulators’ requirements after fake-account scandal takes precedence
2021-02-17 05:30:00 World Vaccine Delays in Developing Nations Risk Prolonging Pandemic As richer nations secure supplies, poorer countries struggle to inoculate their populations
2021-02-17 05:30:00 Economy Retail Sales Seen Rising Strongly on Stimulus in January Projected rise would follow three consecutive months of declining sales during the 2020 holiday shopping season
2021-02-17 05:30:00 Markets Online-Trading Platform Will Let Investors Bet on Yes-or-No Questions Sequoia, Chuck Schwab are among those backing Kalshi, which plans to launch in March
2021-02-17 04:57:00 Business Nestle to Sell Poland Spring, Pure Life and Other Water Brands for $4.3 Billion World’s largest bottled-water maker seeks to sharpen its focus on more lucrative, premium brands in North America
2021-02-17 04:54:00 Markets Stock Futures Waver Ahead of Retail Sales Data Futures linked to the Dow edged lower, suggesting the blue-chips index may tick down a day after closing at an all-time high
2021-02-17 04:46:00 Tech ‘Fortnite’ Maker Epic Games Extends Legal Battle With Apple to Europe Game developer is disputing with tech giants over revenue sharing in multiple countries
2021-02-17 01:45:00 CIO Journal Maersk Plans to Put Carbon-Neutral Container Ship In Operation in Two Years The shipping line is advancing its green-ship timetable with a ‘feeder’ vessel that will operate on biofuel
2021-02-16 23:31:00 Politics Biden Says He Wants K-8 Schools Open Five Days a Week White House earlier said its pledge to reopen schools within 100 days would be satisfied by having in-person instruction one day a week
2021-02-16 22:27:00 Politics Biden to Meet With Unions Pushing for Infrastructure Spending Union leaders hope to win commitments for spending on infrastructure, clean energy in meeting with president
2021-02-16 20:45:00 Markets SEC Sues Morningstar, Alleging Undisclosed Changes to Bond Ratings Adjustments were made to 30 commercial mortgage-backed securities valued at $30 billion, SEC says in lawsuit
2021-02-16 20:36:00 Pro Bankruptcy U.S. Bankruptcy Watchdog Says NRA Law Firm Has ‘Disqualifying Conflicts’ Justice Department bankruptcy overseer says Brewer firm has interests that could impede it from working as special counsel to the gun group
2021-02-16 19:58:00 Opinion What Did Democrats Want From Impeachment? After agreement to avoid witnesses, an immediate call for another investigation.
2021-02-16 19:16:00 Business Marriott’s Next CEO Likely to Come From Inside Two executives currently leading hotel company’s day-to-day operations are seen as top choices
2021-02-16 18:50:00 Business Alden Global Capital Agrees to Buy Rest of Tribune Publishing Hedge fund to pay $17.25 a share in deal that values the newspaper publisher around $630 million
2021-02-16 18:48:00 Markets Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Bets Billions on Verizon and Chevron Conglomerate has purchased $8.6 billion in mobile carrier’s stock and $4.1 billion in oil company
2021-02-16 18:45:00 U.S. Hacker Claims to Have Stolen Files Belonging to Prominent Law Firm Jones Day Firm disputes network breach, says its file-transfer company was compromised
2021-02-16 18:39:00 Opinion Hunting for Internships During the Pandemic Students discuss changing experiences of the job market.
2021-02-16 18:37:00 Opinion The Political Making of a Texas Power Outage How bad energy policy led to rolling blackouts in the freezing Lone Star State.
2021-02-16 18:34:00 Opinion For Better Elections, Copy the Neighbors As states weigh reform, a new project aims to collect best practices.
2021-02-16 18:31:00 Opinion A Brushback to Nasdaq—and the SEC Senators explain why a stock exchange can’t impose social policy.
2021-02-16 18:29:00 Politics Trump Criticizes McConnell, Calling Him a ‘Political Hack’ ‘If Republican Senators are going to stay with him, they will not win again,’ a lengthy statement from the former president said
2021-02-16 18:28:00 Opinion How Biden Can Liberate Americans Shackled Abroad Washington should not tolerate foreign actors who wrongfully or unlawfully imprison U.S. citizens.
2021-02-16 18:27:00 Opinion Show Me the U-Hauls In my small Missouri town, we’re awaiting an exodus from the beleaguered cities.
2021-02-16 18:25:00 Books ‘The Hidden History of Coined Words’ Review: Saying It Another Way Inventing words was once thought pretentious. Now it is considered an achievement, though it may still induce ‘coiner’s remorse.’
2021-02-16 18:22:00 Opinion Texas Cold’Em Neither the blackouts nor their fixes teach anything useful about climate risks.
2021-02-16 18:21:00 Opinion The Minimum Wage’s Racially Discriminatory Roots If the filibuster is a ‘Jim Crow relic,’ so is a policy designed to curtail the abundance of black labor.
2021-02-16 17:40:00 U.S. Ruling Permits New York City to Publish Police Disciplinary Records Federal court dismisses appeal brought by unions for police, firefighters and corrections officers to block the disclosure
2021-02-16 17:21:00 Politics U.S. Reverses Guidance That Impeded Funding for Hudson Rail Tunnel Decision draws praise from proponents of Gateway project to link New Jersey and New York City
2021-02-16 17:10:00 Tech Amazon Completes Purchase of Shopify Competitor Selz Web retailing giant had formed team to study Shopify amid growing competition for smaller merchants creating online stores
2021-02-16 17:00:00 CIO Journal IBM Says Its Carbon Capture Research Will Help Meet 2030 Net-Zero Goal A company research product is looking at using cloud-computing power and AI to design materials that capture carbon dioxide
2021-02-16 16:59:00 Tech Prep Your Tech for Power Outages and Energy Blackouts Before a blackout hits your area, here are the phone settings you’ll want to enable and the gear that will keep you connected in case of a power outage
2021-02-16 16:49:00 Opera Review ‘The Glitch’ and ‘Save the Boys’ Reviews: Intimate Approaches to Dark Stories Nico Muhly’s two-person opera inspired by the true story of Joyce Mitchell, a prison tailor who helped two inmates escape; a SOLO performance by John Holiday of an 1887 temperance poem set to music by Tyshawn Sorey.
2021-02-16 16:44:00 Music Review ‘Little Oblivions’ by Julien Baker Review: Climbing Back From Rock Bottom The 25-year-old singer-songwriter confronts her struggle with substance abuse on an album that embraces melody.
2021-02-16 16:44:00 World Canada Weighs Buybacks of AR-15 Style Rifles Used in U.S. Shootings New gun-control legislation could allow cities to ban handguns
2021-02-16 16:41:00 Television Review ‘Behind Her Eyes’ Review: Women on the Verge of a Supernatural Breakdown In a Netflix series based on the Sarah Pinborough novel, coincidences lead a single mom to become entangled with a psychiatrist and his troubled wife.
2021-02-16 16:38:00 Television Review ‘Shook’ Review: The DMs Are Coming From Inside the House Jennifer Harrington’s smart horror film skewers social-media influencers—literally.
2021-02-16 16:37:00 Politics Trump, Giuliani Accused of Conspiring to Incite U.S. Capitol Riot in New Lawsuit Suit filed by NAACP, Rep. Bennie Thompson also names Proud Boys, Oath Keepers as defendants
2021-02-16 16:24:00 Business AIG Profit Falls on Catastrophes, Travel Insurance Company’s closely watched adjusted income fell 10% in the fourth quarter, hurt by additional Covid-19 costs
2021-02-16 16:22:00 World Iran to Tightly Restrict Inspectors’ Access if U.S. Sanctions Not Lifted The U.N. atomic agency told members that Iran would curtail its monitoring from Feb. 23
2021-02-16 16:09:00 Risk & Compliance Journal DraftKings Names New Compliance Chief Jennifer Aguiar will oversee corporate compliance and enterprise risk management
2021-02-16 16:04:00 Pro Bankruptcy Judge Lets Revlon Lenders Keep Citi’s Botched $500 Million Payment Brigade Capital Management and other investors win court ruling allowing them to keep the Revlon loan payment they received from their agent Citi
2021-02-16 16:01:00 World Investigators Probe Iraq Rocket Attack on U.S. Military Base in Erbil Iraqi and American officials aim to figure out how militants struck a heavily guarded air base used by U.S. in its campaign against Islamic State
2021-02-16 15:51:00 Tech Palantir Lays Out Growth Targets Following Public Debut Data-mining company to expand sales force, aiming for more than 30% growth annually over next five years
2021-02-16 15:40:00 Business Texas Livestock Industry Reels From Storm, Outages Exposure and frozen pipes threaten cattle; dairy farmers are forced to dump milk after plant shutdowns
2021-02-16 15:28:00 Life & Arts You Should Talk to Strangers—Even During the Pandemic Social distancing and isolation mean we’re missing out on serendipitous exchanges with strangers. Here’s why—and how—we should work to make them happen.
2021-02-16 15:21:00 Opinion Trade Debt Write-offs for Community Service At the Biden minimum-wage proposal of $15 an hour, forgiving $15,000 in student debt would require 1,000 hours of work.
2021-02-16 15:20:00 Opinion Rihanna Is Wrong, Mr. Modi Is Mostly Right Greta Thunberg and Meena Harris would condemn India to feudal agrarianism if Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi were to heed their calls and rescind his historic agriculture deregulation.
2021-02-16 15:17:00 Opinion Randi Weingarten Replies to Riley on Unions A poll from EdNext that found parents’ opinions of teachers’ unions have become more favorable during the pandemic.
2021-02-16 15:15:00 Business General Electric Expects to Burn Cash in First Quarter CEO Larry Culp said first-quarter cash flow would likely be negative, but improved from a year ago; outlook for 2021 unchanged
2021-02-16 15:14:00 Business CVS Health Signals Re-entry Into ACA Marketplaces Pharmacy and insurance giant’s results beat analysts’ expectations for final quarter of 2020
2021-02-16 15:13:00 World Shadow Network of Militias Backs Iran Monday’s rocket attack on U.S. base in Iraqi Kurdistan highlights danger posed by Shiite groups supported by Tehran
2021-02-16 14:09:00 CFO Journal Rockwell Automation Names Former 3M Executive as CFO Nicholas Gangestad is set to join the industrial automation company March 1
2021-02-16 13:47:00 U.S. Amy Cooper Charge for Calling Police on Black Bird-Watcher Is Dismissed Prosecutors said Ms. Cooper completed a racial-education program
2021-02-16 13:45:00 World France’s Macron Wins National Assembly Backing for ‘Islamist Separatism’ Bill The proposed legislation heads to the French Senate amid criticism that it stigmatizes Muslims
2021-02-16 13:39:00 Markets Don’t Blame Wind for Texas Electricity Woes Renewable energy and market design are easy targets during electricity failures but they are inadequate explanations
2021-02-16 12:54:00 Markets Bitcoin: What to Know Before Investing
2021-02-16 12:38:00 Opinion An Unconstitutional Voting ‘Reform’ Democrats want to impose federal rules on elections for president. Congress doesn’t have that power.
2021-02-16 12:37:00 Opinion Joe Biden Gets Tested in Iraq The world is watching how he responds to an attack on U.S. forces.
2021-02-16 12:35:00 Opinion The GOP Won’t Purge Trump The rank and file don’t see him as a liability, and his supporters are dug in.
2021-02-16 12:20:00 Politics Biden Administration Extends Covid-19 Mortgage Relief A foreclosure moratorium will now run through June 30, and borrowers will get more time to seek help with payments
2021-02-16 11:41:00 World Marriott CEO Arne Sorenson Dies at Age 62 Lutheran missionary’s son was first person outside company’s founding family to head hotel operator
2021-02-16 11:33:00 Markets Bitcoin Trades Above $50,000 for First Time Digital currency’s total market value in circulation rises to $940 billion
2021-02-16 11:27:00 Business Top Companies for Customer Satisfaction IBM, Caterpillar and Agilent scored highest in this category in the Management Top 250 ranking
2021-02-16 10:50:00 Markets This Laser War Has Gotten Expensive Competing acquisition offers for Coherent have pushed laser maker’s valuation to decade high
2021-02-16 10:44:00 Markets Europe Faces Tough Task in Weaning Economy Off $1.8 Trillion in Covid-19 Relief Fresh numbers show the scale of measures underpinning the region’s consumers and businesses
2021-02-16 10:40:00 Markets Is Boeing Too Late to Build a Midrange Plane? Jet maker may be reviving plans for a new aircraft to serve medium-haul flights, but the story of the Boeing 757 shows that timing can be everything
2021-02-16 10:23:00 Markets CoStar Group Submits Competing Offer to Buy CoreLogic for About $6.9 Billion CoreLogic earlier this month agreed to sell itself to two private-equity firms for about $6 billion
2021-02-16 10:15:00 Life & Arts What to Do When Your Child Tests Positive For Covid-19 A child’s diagnosis presents challenges for the whole family. Here are some strategies.
2021-02-16 09:56:00 Business Warner Music Takes Stake in Prince Al-Waleed’s Rotana Music Deal expands presence of Len Blavatnik’s Warner in the growing Mideast market
2021-02-16 09:30:00 CFO Journal CFOs Invest in Employee Training, Software to Speed Up Forecasting Finance executives are helping employees improve data-management skills
2021-02-16 09:19:00 Markets Ex-Goldman Sachs Analyst and Brother Charged In U.K. Insider Trading Case Charges from U.K. authorities relate to trades in companies advised by Goldman, including chip giant ARM Holdings
2021-02-16 09:00:00 Politics Wisconsin Covid-19 Response Is Shaped by Political Divide Biden prepares to visit Milwaukee on his first official trip since taking office as he promotes efforts to fight pandemic
2021-02-16 09:00:00 Business Shopify’s Secret Weapon Is Thousands of New Business Owners Americans are opening online stores during Covid-19 pandemic, but many startups fail
2021-02-16 08:45:00 World China Nudges Accused Video Pirates Down the Plank, Stirring Frustration Over Censorship Copyright investigation into Renren Yingshi casts spotlight on increasing controls under Xi Jinping
2021-02-16 08:39:00 World Aung San Suu Kyi, Detained Since Myanmar’s Coup, Attends Closed Court Hearing The lawyer appointed by her party to represent her wasn’t permitted to be at the video proceedings and didn’t know police had filed two charges against her.
2021-02-16 08:24:00 Markets SoftBank Stock Sets New Record in Throwback to Dot-Com Boom Tech investor again rides wave of optimism, but enjoys stronger foundation than in 2000 internet bubble
2021-02-16 08:23:00 World Hong Kong Trial of Nine Pro-Democracy Activists Begins Martin Lee, newspaper publisher Jimmy Lai are among the veteran activists facing charges that carry possible prison sentences of up to five years
2021-02-16 08:14:00 World Covid-19 Variants Outpace Europe’s Slow Vaccine Rollout Spread of British and other variants is accelerating even as overall numbers fall, likely extending restrictions through the region’s winter
2021-02-16 08:00:00 Politics Live Venues Hit by Covid-19 Await $15 Billion Grant Program Some businesses say need for aid is urgent, seek loans through existing Paycheck Protection Program
2021-02-16 08:00:00 Real Estate Foreign Investors Load Up on U.S. Warehouses Buyers who often look to trophy properties in large cities are now betting on e-commerce infrastructure
2021-02-16 07:59:00 Markets Palantir, BorgWarner, Occidental Petroleum: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today U.S. stock futures climbed, signaling major indexes could notch fresh records
2021-02-16 07:00:00 Markets Oil’s Missing-Barrel Mystery Stumps Forecasters Crude prices have made up their pandemic losses, but further gains are clouded by questions regarding where all the excess barrels went
2021-02-16 07:00:00 Markets New Rule on 401(k) Rollovers Takes Effect, as Biden Sticks With Trump-Era Change Regulation beefs up consumer protection on retirement accounts
2021-02-16 07:00:00 Politics Biden Administration Reviews Nord Stream 2 Gas Pipeline U.S. considers whether to waive or impose sanctions on builders of Russian gas pipeline
2021-02-16 06:00:00 Pandemic Spurs Companies to Increase Tech Startup Investing Corporations are expanding venture-capital commitments and launching new funds
2021-02-16 05:30:00 Markets Lumber Prices Notch Records on Building, Remodeling Boom Futures have surged over the past three weeks as the pandemic’s hottest commodity continues to be in high demand
2021-02-16 05:30:00 Aiming to Cash In on Data, European Firms Grapple With Privacy Laws Companies are seeking regulatory guidance on how to avoid revealing personal data
2021-02-16 05:30:00 Markets Goldman Sachs to Offer Its Investing Know-How to the Masses Elite Wall Street firm is set to unveil Marcus Invest, a robo-advisory wealth-management platform
2021-02-16 05:30:00 Risk & Compliance Journal SEC Signals a More Aggressive Stance Toward Wall Street The regulator has rolled back a policy that helped companies navigate a risk in settling securities law violations
2021-02-16 05:00:00 Markets Why 2021 Promises a Fresh Wave of Defaults From Corporate China Property developers, which are a big part of the Chinese offshore bond market, could be one source of stress
2021-02-16 04:36:00 Markets Stock Futures Gain, Energy Prices Rise The S&P 500 and Dow indexes are on track to hit new all-time highs after notching records at the end of last week
2021-02-16 03:30:00 Markets In the Long Run, Stocks Really Do Go Up Returns for most investors squirreling money away over a period of years are clearly positive
2021-02-16 01:43:00 Business Iron Ore’s Rally Shields BHP From Pain of China Trade Dispute Mining company reports $6.04 billion underlying profit as Chinese infrastructure spending drives the commodity’s price to nine-year high
2021-02-15 21:55:00 Politics McConnell Doesn’t Care About Trump Brand in 2022, He Just Wants Electable Candidates Minority leader’s strategy to GOP regaining Senate: channeling Trump energy while limiting extremist hopefuls
2021-02-15 18:47:00 World Iraq Rocket Attack Targets U.S.-Led Coalition, in Test for Biden Assault kills a contractor and injures a U.S. service member and five other contractors; president is briefed
2021-02-15 18:21:00 Politics Pelosi Outlines Steps to Create 9/11-Style Commission to Investigate Capitol Riot House speaker says independent commission will probe Jan. 6 attack that was focus of Trump’s second impeachment
2021-02-15 18:10:00 Tech Parler Resurfaces Online After Monthlong Service Disruption Social-media platform restores some functions after tech giants moved against app following riot at U.S. Capitol
2021-02-15 18:03:00 Opinion Acquittal Vindicated the Constitution, Not Trump House managers wanted us to rush through a sham trial. Instead we did our duty to the rule of law.
2021-02-15 18:01:00 Books ‘George Washington’ Review: Our Founding Politician Washington was a savvy packager of his own personal virtues. He knew that if you don’t engage in a bit of self-aggrandizement, you lose.
2021-02-15 18:00:00 Opinion Biden’s Rough Start With the World This has been one of the shortest and coldest diplomatic honeymoons on record.
2021-02-15 17:59:00 Opinion The Human Cost of a Minimum Wage Workers have more to fear from well-meaning pols than from capitalism.
2021-02-15 17:58:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: The Thrill of Covering Trump ‘By far the most difficult challenge was reporting that Trump had gotten something right.’
2021-02-15 16:25:00 Business NTSB Probes Runway Steering Issues With High-End Piper Private Planes U.S. air-crash investigators look for links among steering difficulties affecting certain Piper turboprop models
2021-02-15 15:30:00 World Symptomatic Covid-19 Cases Dropped 94% With Pfizer Vaccine, Israeli Data Show Study comparing two groups of 600,000 people also found vaccine recipients 92% less likely to develop severe illness
2021-02-15 14:58:00 World Ebola Returns to West Africa as Region Battles Covid-19 Authorities and World Health Organization rush to roll out vaccine to halt spread of twin outbreak
2021-02-15 14:09:00 Opinion A Deep Green Freeze Power shortages show the folly of eliminating natural gas—and coal.
2021-02-15 14:02:00 Markets Universal Music IPO Has One Off-Beat Note Record label will be spun out of Vivendi by end of year—positive news for investors, with possible exception of Amsterdam listing
2021-02-15 13:34:00 World West Unites Against Detention of Foreign Nationals in Signal to China Declaration targets a political tactic that has been employed by the likes of China, Iran, Russia and North Korea
2021-02-15 13:31:00 Opinion Does Respectable Mediocrity Offend Nobody? A conventional letter grade for each course is recorded for every student at Reed College.
2021-02-15 13:30:00 Opinion The Often Irrational Rationing of Vaccines Why is eligibility is expanded when the highest priority group of those wanting vaccines hasn’t yet been completely vaccinated?
2021-02-15 13:29:00 Opinion U.S. Diplomacy, China and Climate Change It is naive to think that, in John Kerry’s words, climate change would ever be treated by the Chinese as “a critical stand alone issue.
2021-02-15 13:29:00 Business WHO Approves AstraZeneca Covid-19 Vaccine for Emergency Use Listing clears way for delivery of free shots to developing nations
2021-02-15 12:19:00 World WTO Appoints Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as First Female Leader Former Nigerian finance minister faces a tough task in reviving the influence of the organization
2021-02-15 12:00:00 U.S. Who’s Who in the Race to Be the Next Manhattan District Attorney Eight candidates are split between insiders with prosecutorial experience and outsiders without; an all-important June election
2021-02-15 11:59:00 Arts Ed Ruscha Exhibit Examines the Artist’s Oklahoma Roots Major homecoming show at new $30 million Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center chronicles the rise of a pioneering conceptual artist
2021-02-15 11:51:00 Opinion Support the Police, Oppose Misconduct Officers must be held accountable when they violate the law.
2021-02-15 11:49:00 Opinion Join the Lincoln Project, Drive Off With a Lemon With convenient timing, the media discover the anti-Trumpers aren’t all they were cracked up to be.
2021-02-15 11:31:00 Politics Obamacare Helper Groups Call for More Funding to Meet Enrollment Demand President Biden’s launch of new sign-up window for ACA health-insurance plans will strain resources, groups say
2021-02-15 11:26:00 Politics In Biden World, Economic Policy Is National Security Policy These days, U.S. security is more dependent on adopting emerging technologies and making sure supply chains for critical goods are at home
2021-02-15 10:12:00 Opinion Who Are the Covid Investigators? Members of a WHO origin probe have conflicts of interest.
2021-02-15 09:30:00 CFO Journal Corporate Spending Plans Tweaked as Recovery Pace Remains Uncertain Some companies are moving away from annual budgets in favor of rolling forecasts
2021-02-15 09:00:00 Life & Arts The Ivy League Is Still on the Sidelines. Wealthy Alumni Are Not Happy. Billionaire Joe Tsai’s rebuffed offer to fund a lacrosse ‘bubble’ is one sign of how pressure is mounting on the conference that never returned to the field.
2021-02-15 09:00:00 Markets Mortgage Investors Look Back to the Future Investors in mortgage companies are starting to anticipate a turn in the cycle, but it may be premature to call an end to the boom
2021-02-15 08:30:00 WSJ. Magazine Bill Gates Has a Master Plan for Battling Climate Change The co-founder of Microsoft became obsessed with developing clean tech through his philanthropic work. With a new book, ‘How to Avoid a Climate Disaster,’ and a cadre of billionaire partners, he now has an action plan for ending the world’s carbon dependency.
2021-02-15 08:03:00 Life & Arts What Are Instagram ‘Fit Pics,’ Why Are they So Popular and Who is Taking Them? On Instagram, thousands of amateur fashion influencers post outfit photos each day—often begging their partners, friends or even their kids to be their personal photographers
2021-02-15 08:00:00 Markets Oil Prices Reach Fresh Highs as Cold Blast Hits Texas Freezing weather boosted demand for fuel and power, while threatening oil-and-gas output in key production state
2021-02-15 08:00:00 Business What’s the Best Business School? For This Year’s M.B.A. Rankings, It’s Not Who You Think. As Harvard, Stanford, other elite schools skip some rankings this year, European universities top lists, lesser-known programs get a boost
2021-02-15 08:00:00 Logistics Report Some Truckers Are Thriving as Companies Reset Supply Chains Efforts to meet growing e-commerce consumer demand have less-than-truckload carriers handling more freight
2021-02-15 06:32:00 Markets The Uberization of Private Jets Might Be Here to Stay More executives are flying in business jets than before Covid-19, which could eventually reshape trends in small-aircraft manufacturing
2021-02-15 05:30:00 Markets GameStop Investors Who Bet Big—and Lost Big GameStop and the Reddit-fueled frenzy around it have been celebrated as a triumph for small investors. But lots of them are in the red.
2021-02-15 05:30:00 Politics Covid-19 Vaccine Approval Process: Does It Take Too Long? Here are answers to some questions about the FDA review panels
2021-02-15 05:30:00 Markets Borrowing Binge Reaches Riskiest Companies Demand for corporate debt has offered lifelines to struggling firms that can borrow at interest rates once reserved for the safest type of bonds
2021-02-15 05:30:00 Politics Pro-Trump Candidates Launch Early Senate, Governor Bids GOP hopefuls in several midterm races are tying themselves closely to the former president and his legacy
2021-02-15 04:48:00 Markets U.S. Stock Futures Edge Higher on Presidents Day Holiday The S&P 500 could open higher on Tuesday after notching an all-time high at the close of markets on Friday
2021-02-15 04:43:00 Markets The Currency-Market Snoozefest Might Not Last Foreign-exchange markets have returned to their pre-pandemic placidity even as stock-market volatility remains elevated
2021-02-14 20:00:00 Life & Arts The Challenges of Getting Long-Covid Patients Back to Work Some people have gone months without fully recovering from the virus—here’s how they’ve tried to manage their illness while doing their jobs
2021-02-14 19:09:00 Politics Biden to Join G-7 Leaders in Virtual Meeting to Discuss Pandemic Response President will also focus on the global economic recovery, White House said
2021-02-14 18:04:00 Opinion Trump’s Non-Vindication He may run again, but he won’t win another national election.
2021-02-14 16:49:00 Politics Impeachment Over, Biden Agenda Faces GOP Seeking to Unify in Opposition Democrats are moving on to cabinet nominees and pandemic relief, which one Republican calls ‘the most radical agenda’
2021-02-14 15:00:00 Economy Economy Week Ahead: GDP, Retail Sales, Housing After three straight down months, a rebound in U.S. retail sales is forecast for January
2021-02-14 12:00:00 World Indian Activist Arrested for Sharing Document That Supports Farmer Protests Bangalore woman allegedly disseminated an online tool kit that was originally posted by campaigner Greta Thunberg
2021-02-14 11:01:00 World Carlos Menem, Argentine President Who Ushered in ‘Pizza and Champagne’ Era, Dies at 90 The flamboyant Peronist liberalized the economy and strengthened ties with Washington, but also faced graft probes and planted the seeds of a debt crisis
2021-02-14 10:25:00 Business Why So Many Covid-19 Workers’ Comp Claims Are Being Rejected Employees who allege they contracted coronavirus on the job can face a high bar to prove their cases
2021-02-14 10:00:00 Business Covid-19 Vaccines Aren’t Yet Luring Workers Back to the Office A more-widespread return is expected to begin in late spring or early summer
2021-02-14 10:00:00 Life & Arts Covid Vaccines for the Tokyo Olympics Have Become a Political Issue Around the world, sports officials are asking their governments to help get shots for their athletes.
2021-02-14 09:00:00 Tech How to Make Your iPad More Like a Laptop The iPad can do nearly anything your laptop can do and then some—as long as you have the right apps and accessories
2021-02-14 08:00:00 Opinion Why Joe Biden Needs Bipartisanship Working across the aisle is a key part of his appeal to swing voters—and Mitch McConnell knows it.
2021-02-14 07:00:00 Risk & Compliance Journal My Phony Valentine: Covid Fuels Romance Scams The pandemic has created fertile soil for fraudsters to swindle the unsuspecting, regulators say
2021-02-14 07:00:00 Life & Arts For Better Health During the Pandemic, Is Two Hours Outdoors the New 10,000 Steps? The physical and mental damage inflicted by Covid has doctors, researchers and others racing to tap into nature’s therapeutic effects
2021-02-14 05:30:00 Markets European Banks Use Pandemic to Clean House Long resistant to change, Germany’s Commerzbank and others are slashing jobs, closing branches and forcing customers online
2021-02-14 05:30:00 Economy Lower-Income Covid-19 Aid Recipients Seen Boosting Consumer Spending Retail sales rose in January after three months of declines, Commerce Department is expected to report
2021-02-13 21:04:00 Politics Trump’s Second Impeachment Trial Sharpens Republican Divides Seven Republicans voted to convict, and several more, including Mitch McConnell, criticized the ex-president, who still commands loyalty
2021-02-13 20:37:00 Politics White House Spokesman Resigns After Threatening Remarks to Politico Reporter TJ Ducklo had been put on unpaid leave for threatening a reporter pursuing a story about his relationship with another journalist
2021-02-13 17:08:00 U.S. Supreme Court Clears Way for Extradition of Two Americans Accused in Ghosn Escape Decision brings an end to a nine-month legal effort by a father and his son to avoid being sent to Japan to face criminal charges
2021-02-13 15:55:00 U.S. New York Police Investigate Subway Killings Four people were stabbed, two fatally, in separate attacks in the subway system in two days
2021-02-13 15:26:00 Politics Jaime Herrera Beutler Takes Center Stage at Trump’s Impeachment Trial The GOP lawmaker’s statement about a pivotal Jan. 6 call briefly delayed proceedings and focused attention on Trump’s  actions during the riot
2021-02-13 15:04:00 Business Boeing CEO Said Board Moved Quickly on MAX Safety; New Details Suggest Otherwise Shareholders’ suit citing internal Boeing documents alleges board didn’t act as fast on safety as CEO David Calhoun said
2021-02-13 13:49:00 World Earthquake Hits Northern Japan The 7.3-magnitude quake was centered in the Pacific Ocean near Fukushima prefecture
2021-02-13 13:33:00 Law New York Prosecutors Investigating Trump’s Manhattan Properties Officials are investigating loans the former president took on four buildings, including his flagship Trump Tower
2021-02-13 12:01:00 Life & Arts How Roses Came to Mean True Love Our favorite Valentine’s Day flower was already a symbol of passion in ancient Greek mythology
2021-02-13 12:01:00 Life & Arts What Shakespeare Can Teach Us About Empathy In an age of political division, plays like ‘Othello’ and ‘The Merchant of Venice’ offer lessons in understanding difference
2021-02-13 12:00:00 Tech How Congress Might Upend Section 230, the Law Big Tech Is Built On Lawmakers have sweeping plans to change the foundational covenant between the government and internet platforms. Some experts are cheering, others are wondering if they’ll be burning down the internet rather than saving it.
2021-02-13 11:53:00 Politics U.S. Expresses ‘Deep Concerns’ Over China Withholding Data From Pandemic Investigators National security adviser says it is imperative World Health Organization report be free of China’s intervention
2021-02-13 10:01:00 Life & Arts Trevor Bauer Became Baseball’s Highest-Paid Player. The Dodgers Got a Tax Break. Bauer can earn $85 million in two years under his unusual short-term free-agent contract with the Dodgers–who can soften the penalties for their high payroll.
2021-02-13 10:00:00 Politics Biden’s Task Forces Take On Covid-19, Climate Change The 25 groups created via presidential decree are more than prior administrations had at this point
2021-02-13 09:00:00 Politics A Domestic Terrorism Law Is Debated Anew After Capitol Riot Addressing violent extremism is a Biden priority, but whether the U.S. needs a specific new law is up for debate
2021-02-13 09:00:00 Tech The Latest Remote-Learning Battle: Requiring Kids to Keep Cameras On Many students say they feel more engaged with their cameras on, but not if they are the only ones; parents say, just make it a rule
2021-02-13 09:00:00 Pro Bankruptcy Purdue Lawyers Face Disclosure Questions Over Sackler Defense Deal Law firms defending Purdue Pharma in opioid probes should have disclosed a defense agreement with the company’s owners, legal experts say
2021-02-13 08:00:00 Markets If Tesla Bubble Bursts, Catastrophe Won’t Follow Not all bubbles are equal. Britain’s bicycle-stock bubble of the 1890s holds lessons for today’s electric-vehicle mania.
2021-02-13 08:00:00 Life & Arts No Hoodies and Allbirds for These Women in Tech The tech-bro uniform is on its way out. Here’s how a new generation of women in tech is changing the status quo, starting with what they wear.
2021-02-13 08:00:00 World China’s Covid-19 Vaccine Diplomacy Boosts Its Influence in Europe Serbia’s successful use of Chinese shots inspires other European nations to seek Beijing’s assistance
2021-02-13 07:00:00 Art Review Discovering Art Nouveau The early modernist style, evocative of the natural world, can be seen in abundance in whimsical buildings along the Danube and elsewhere in Europe.
2021-02-13 06:00:00 Politics In Review, Biden Seeks New Balance in Saudi Ties Administration looks to toughen scrutiny while maintaining a key strategic relationship
2021-02-13 05:41:00 Politics Senate to Hear Closing Arguments in Trump Impeachment Senators could vote as early as Saturday on whether to convict Trump of inciting the mob that attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6
2021-02-13 05:30:00 Politics Forget Self-Driving Cars—the Pentagon Wants Autonomous Ships, Choppers and Jets Advanced technology developed for military uses could eventually be integrated in civilian products
2021-02-13 05:30:00 U.S. Challenges to Covid-19 Lockdowns Have Been Mostly Losing in Court Judges generally uphold restrictions on businesses and the scope of freedom, in biggest test of state governments’ legal power in a century
2021-02-12 21:32:00 Politics Covid-19 Testing Won’t Be Required Before Domestic Flights, CDC Says Airlines had opposed such a measure; CDC reiterated guidance that Americans refrain from travel
2021-02-12 21:13:00 Politics Trump Impeachment Trial: Takeaways From the Fourth Day Key moments and themes as Trump’s lawyers mounted their defense
2021-02-12 20:35:00 Politics Donald Trump Impeachment Trial Still Has GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy Asking Questions The Louisiana Republican, a prolific note-taker during the proceedings, is a surprise swing vote
2021-02-12 20:12:00 Business Opioid Settlement Tax Breaks Sought by Four Drug Companies McKesson, AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and Johnson & Johnson stand to reap about $1 billion each
2021-02-12 19:39:00 CIO Journal Private-Equity Deals for Information Technology Soar as Companies Modernize Infrastructure Investors cite increasing need for IT services in retail, healthcare, hospitality and other sectors
2021-02-12 19:35:00 World Caught in Myanmar’s Rohingya Tragedy, a Bride Fights to Reach Her Groom Braving traffickers and angry seas, Sadeka found herself trapped on a remote island; ‘all the women here’ think about suicide
2021-02-12 19:17:00 World Canadian Court Rules Gunmaker Smith & Wesson Can Be Liable for 2018 Shooting Company’s failure to provide gun safeguards is sufficient grounds for a class-action suit to proceed, judge says
2021-02-12 19:14:00 Markets Lyft, Bumble, Walt Disney: Stocks That Defined the Week Here are seven major companies whose stocks moved on the week’s news
2021-02-12 18:52:00 Opinion The Pandemic Spending Hangover Federal debt has reached 100% of GDP even before Biden’s plans become law.
2021-02-12 18:49:00 Opinion The Cuomo Covid Coverup His adviser admits to covering up New York’s nursing home deaths.
2021-02-12 18:46:00 Opinion The Herold of Lawsuits to Come A Labor lawyer who pushed a dubious charge against Oracle is back.
2021-02-12 18:37:00 Markets Citigroup, Bank of America Cut CEO Pay Profit dropped at both banks last year; Citigroup CEO Michael Corbat’s pay was reduced by 21%
2021-02-12 17:58:00 Opinion The Kindness of Strangers Probably Saved a Boy’s Life Five people decided to intervene in a family matter when they saw a bruised child.
2021-02-12 17:57:00 Books ‘W-3’ Review: The World of the Ward
2021-02-12 17:57:00 Opinion The Times Is Changing, Badly Editors and managers at a great newspaper gather around Twitter to find out what they think.
2021-02-12 17:56:00 Books ‘Prey’ Review: A Forbidden Conversation An argument that links between the surge of migrants into Europe and a rise in violence against women must be addressed.
2021-02-12 17:54:00 Opinion Public Employee Unions Are Having a Fine Old Lockdown Politicians begging Washington for a bailout have been doling out raises to government workers.
2021-02-12 16:43:00 Risk & Compliance Journal DNB Says Authorities Have Ended Probe Into Money-Laundering Allegations Icelandic media reports had said that fishing group Samherji used the Norwegian bank to funnel money to a shell company
2021-02-12 16:35:00 Markets American Express Acknowledges DOJ Review of Card Sales Company adds it received a ‘civil investigative demand’ from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
2021-02-12 16:27:00 Opinion How Many People Participated in the Cuomo Cover-Up? A media hero presides over a disaster for New York residents.
2021-02-12 16:14:00 Opinion Catholic Social Teaching and Social Healing The progressive wing of Roman Catholicism has more in common with secular progressives than with conservative Catholics and other Christians.
2021-02-12 16:13:00 Opinion On Identity Politics and Changing Attitudes The left portrays racial and ethnic minorities (with the exception of Asians, Jews, and other successful groups) as hapless victims of historical oppression.
2021-02-12 16:11:00 Opinion Odd Investment for Such a Prominent Climate Activist Private jets produce many times the amount of carbon per passenger than do commercial aircraft.
2021-02-12 16:10:00 U.S. Supreme Court Blocks Alabama Execution Over Clergy Access State must allow inmate to have his pastor present, high court rules
2021-02-12 16:08:00 Masterpiece A Standard Still on the Tracks at 80 Billy Strayhorn’s ‘Take the ‘A’ Train’ performed by Duke Ellington’s orchestra summons the hustle and bustle of a trip up to Harlem.
2021-02-12 15:50:00 Politics White House Suspends Spokesman for Comments to Politico Reporter TJ Ducklo, the deputy press secretary, was reprimanded after allegedly threatening a Politico reporter pursuing a story about his relationship with another journalist
2021-02-12 15:47:00 Politics Trump’s Impeachment Trial Grapples With Definition of Incitement Lawmakers at odds over whether ex-president’s actions meet standards for criminal incitement, even as that doesn’t necessarily apply under impeachment
2021-02-12 15:41:00 U.S. Amazon Aims to Head Off Suit by New York Over Worker Issues Online retailer says Attorney General Letitia James doesn’t have authority to regulate workplace safety
2021-02-12 15:21:00 Politics CDC Presses K-12 Schools to Reopen Public-health agency issues new guidelines for schools to reopen safely
2021-02-12 15:19:00 Markets ARK Investment Pushes Back on Upstart SPAC With Similar Name Superstar fund manager says investors are confusing new blank-check company called Ark Global Acquisition with Cathie Wood’s firm
2021-02-12 15:15:00 Pro PE Fund News Insight Partners Preps New Fund Targeting At Least $12 Billion Firm’s new fundraising effort comes less than a year after it collected $9.5 billion for its previous flagship fund
2021-02-12 15:06:00 Markets Nasdaq’s Plan for Diversity on Corporate Boards Is Decried by Senate Republicans Banking Committee members say the plan is unnecessary and could harm financial performance
2021-02-12 14:33:00 Politics Limit on U.S. Debt, Untouched in Democrats’ Covid Aid Bill, Looms Later in the Year Democrats chose not to raise debt ceiling now and likely must act by late summer or early fall
2021-02-12 13:59:00 Life & Arts The Pioneering Phillips Collection Turns 100 The Washington, D.C., museum looks forward to its second century with a new exhibition, ‘Seeing Differently.’
2021-02-12 13:52:00 Opinion How Equality Lost to ‘Equity’ Civil-rights advocates abandon the old ideal for the new term, which ‘has no meaning’ and promises no progress but makes it easy to impute bigotry, says Shelby Steele.
2021-02-12 13:51:00 Politics Georgia Investigates Warnock-Led Group Over 2019 Voter-Registration Efforts State investigators say the New Georgia Project was slow to deliver more than 1,200 voter applications
2021-02-12 13:47:00 Real Estate 13 Interior Design Trends Shaped by the Pandemic As we’ve quarantined at home, our needs for privacy, security, flexibility, floppability and beauty have changed the way we want to live. Here, 13 décor trends courtesy of 2020.
2021-02-12 13:26:00 Business Fox’s Dobbs, Bartiromo and Pirro Ask Court to Dismiss Defamation Suit Cable-news hosts say they were covering and commenting on newsworthy claims
2021-02-12 13:25:00 Life & Arts ‘Buccaneers’: From Boar Hunters to Pirates to Super Bowl Champions The romantic label for swashbucklers used by Tampa Bay’s NFL team has the same Caribbean roots as a term for barbecuing pork
2021-02-12 13:20:00 Politics Tariffs on Wine, Food From Europe to Stay for Now, U.S. Says Decision came despite intense lobbying by the U.S. restaurant and beverage industries that are already reeling from the Covid-19 pandemic
2021-02-12 13:04:00 China China Refuses to Give WHO Raw Data on Early Covid-19 Cases Officials withhold personalized information on patients that could help determine pandemic’s origins
2021-02-12 13:00:00 World Covid-19 Vaccines Are Becoming Important Diplomatic Currency India sends 50,000 doses to the Seychelles, seeking to blunt Chinese inroads in the Indian Ocean
2021-02-12 13:00:00 U.S. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Takes Heat After Withholding Nursing-Home Death Data Aide told lawmakers that a DOJ probe prompted Cuomo administration to sideline a request for details
2021-02-12 12:48:00 Life & Arts Fashion Legend Norma Kamali’s ‘Handbook on Aging With Power’ After decades in an industry obsessed with youth, the designer writes in her new book that ‘you can feel better and be better with age’
2021-02-12 12:38:00 Markets Coupang, South Korean E-Commerce Giant, Unveils U.S. IPO Plan SoftBank-backed firm’s debut expected to be largest by foreign company since Alibaba in 2014
2021-02-12 12:05:00 Life & Arts The Mardini Burak Ayaz, the owner of Fahri Konsolos bar in the trendy Moda neighborhood on the Asian side of Istanbul, named this cocktail for the Southeastern city of Mardin.
2021-02-12 11:58:00 Life & Arts Is Istanbul on Your Post-Covid Travel Wish List? Why Wait? Turkey’s most hypnotic city isn’t as inaccessible as you think. You can teleport yourself there anytime with these TV shows, films, dishes, books and at least one psychedelic rock ’n’ roll band.
2021-02-12 11:38:00 Markets How the Stock Market Works Now: Elon Musk Tweets, Millions Buy The Tesla founder and other ‘messiahs of momentum’ can rally hordes of investors in the blink of an eye. But can these powerful outsiders predict the future any better than the insiders who came before them?
2021-02-12 11:31:00 Markets Credit Suisse to Pay $600 Million to Settle Securities Case Bank executives have vowed to clean up legacy legal cases at the Swiss lender that have cost it billions of dollars
2021-02-12 11:24:00 Politics Biden’s Nominee for SEC Chief, Gary Gensler, Reports Net Worth Between $41 Million and $119 Million Most of the former Goldman Sachs banker’s earnings were from investment income
2021-02-12 11:21:00 Economy U.S. Consumer Sentiment Falls in Early February Decline driven by downbeat expectations among lower-income households
2021-02-12 10:59:00 Business 2022 Beijing Olympic Games Loom as Test for Corporate Sponsors Silence on human-rights issues risks alienating U.S. consumers; speaking up could earn the host nation’s ire
2021-02-12 10:59:00 Markets Why Women Investors Won’t Embrace Stocks Female investors have a cautious view of equities. That is a problem—for women as well as the rest of the finance world.
2021-02-12 10:55:00 Books ‘A Worse Place Than Hell’ Review: The Crucible One of the Civil War’s bloodiest episodes left a lasting imprint on those who fought—and many who didn’t.
2021-02-12 10:50:00 Books ‘Four Lost Cities’ Review: Stories in Stones Traveling the world, a writer looks for clues to the future in the urban world of the past.
2021-02-12 10:47:00 Books Fiction: Wu Cheng’en’s ‘Monkey King’ Review A Ming dynasty classic of action-packed hilarity gets a fresh translation.
2021-02-12 10:46:00 Books ‘Venus and Aphrodite’ Review: Divine Passion, Divine Rage If sex is among the most potent human drives, the deity who embodied it must have been a power player.
2021-02-12 10:44:00 Books Five Best: On Desire Selected by the author, most recently, of ’22 Minutes of Unconditional Love.’
2021-02-12 10:43:00 Markets WSJ Tax Guide 2021 Covers Year Like No Other Navigate this tax season with our guide on all you need to know
2021-02-12 10:43:00 Books ‘Burning the Books’ Review: Murdering Knowledge The threats to a culture’s collective memory can come from neglect—or more sinister forces.
2021-02-12 10:42:00 Books Children’s Books: ‘Sylvie’ Review Visiting eras past through a vibrant graphic memoir and luminous picture books.
2021-02-12 10:41:00 Books ‘The Rope’ Review: The Accused and the Crusader The color of Tom Williams’s skin made him a target, even as a national antiracism movement grew.
2021-02-12 10:40:00 Books Science Fiction: ‘The Witch’s Heart’ Review In a tale of goddesses and witches wronged, the mother of monsters gets her say.
2021-02-12 10:26:00 U.S. Most Capitol Riot Suspects Have No Far-Right Group Ties, a Challenge in Fight Against Extremism About 16% of those facing federal charges have known affiliations with extremist organizations
2021-02-12 10:15:00 Real Estate 5 Paint Colors That Are Trending Big in the Pandemic With many Americans still housebound, we asked major paint brands which interior shades have been experiencing the biggest growth in sales. Their answers included a surprise or two.
2021-02-12 09:36:00 WSJ Logistics Report Today’s Logistics Report: Infrastructure’s Fast Lane; Seeking Automotive Chips; Coal Biting Back Today’s Top Supply Chain & Logistics News from WSJ
2021-02-12 09:36:00 Economy Federal Reserve to Test Ability of Largest Banks to Weather a Recession Stress test will feature a scenario in which markets seize up and unemployment jumps above 10%
2021-02-12 09:02:00 Markets Disney, HubSpot, Cloudflare, Coherent: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today Stocks are on track to end a choppy week with muted gains
2021-02-12 09:01:00 Politics Yellen Is Creating a New Senior Treasury Post for Climate Czar Obama administration veteran Sarah Bloom Raskin is top candidate to lead department’s climate efforts
2021-02-12 08:53:00 Markets U.S. Signals Policy Shift on California State Retirement-Savings Program President Biden in his campaign expressed support for government-sponsored savings programs
2021-02-12 08:45:00 Life & Arts Chocolat Chaud (Hot Chocolate) The secret to David Lebovitz’s Parisian-style hot chocolate is whole milk and plenty of high-quality dark chocolate
2021-02-12 08:38:00 Markets Platinum Jumps on Inflation Concerns, Propelled by Broader Rally The precious metal is trading close to its highest level in six years, and prices have more than doubled since March
2021-02-12 08:36:00 Markets Electronic-Components Maker II-VI Bids $260 a Share for Coherent Offer sets up three-way takeover battle for the laser maker as II-VI seeks to top offers already made by Lumentum and MKS Instruments
2021-02-12 08:34:00 Life & Arts Soothing Hot Chocolate Recipes: 16 Self-Care Strategies Let the weather and the world do their worst. Made from scratch or from a packet, hot chocolate is always there for us. These are the ones to make and the ones to buy.
2021-02-12 08:30:00 CFO Journal CFOs Expect Financial Hit From Potential Minimum Wage Increase Various companies have said they support raising the federal minimum wage—albeit not as high as $15
2021-02-12 08:19:00 Politics Biden’s Gun-Policy Plans Start to Take Shape The administration has begun outreach to gun-control groups but has yet to fill in details on a politically tricky issue
2021-02-12 07:55:00 Business Hotel Chain Oyo Slashes Staff and Investment in Latin America The highflying Indian startup, backed by SoftBank’s $100 billion Vision Fund, is diverting attention to other markets as the pandemic hammers its business
2021-02-12 07:27:00 World Mario Draghi to Take Over as Italy’s Prime Minister Amid Economic, Covid-19 Crises Former ECB chief unites Italy’s fragmented political landscape
2021-02-12 07:00:00 Pro PE Deals Aldrich Capital Partners Bets $45 million on ProcessMaker The investment aims to capitalize on the growth of digital automation
2021-02-12 07:00:00 Markets China Is Approaching Its Own Peak Oil Country’s energy companies are starting to look ahead to demand topping out around mid-decade
2021-02-12 07:00:00 Markets The Zillow Fantasy Could End in Rude Awakening Zillow surfing may be the new great American pastime, but all the world’s lookie-loos haven’t ensured much in the way of profit thus far
2021-02-12 06:00:00 Politics Biden to Begin Allowing Asylum Seekers Waiting in Mexico to Enter U.S. Some who were turned back under Trump administration’s Remain in Mexico policy will be sent to three ports of entry
2021-02-12 05:33:00 Markets GameStop Mania Highlights Shift to Dark Trading On some days, more than half of shares changing hands in U.S. are traded outside public stock exchanges
2021-02-12 05:31:00 Life & Arts Australian Open to Close Doors to Fans After New Covid Outbreak Tournament had been organized with some of the strictest rules of any sporting event since the pandemic began
2021-02-12 05:30:00 Politics Donald Trump Impeachment Trial Day Four: Defense to Set Out Case The legal team representing the former president intends to keep the defense presentation to one day and brief
2021-02-12 05:30:00 Politics Child Tax Credit Plan Pushes Democrats’ Goal of Funding Boost for IRS Internal Revenue Service has seen inflation-adjusted funding drop by over 20% since 2010
2021-02-12 05:30:00 Business The New Electric Vehicles Now Hitting the Road Auto giants and startups alike hope to spark a boom
2021-02-12 05:30:00 Risk & Compliance Journal National Holdings Subsidiary to Settle Lawsuit with Former Compliance Officer Kay Johnson says she was fired for investigating the chief executive over possible insider trading, allegations the company denies
2021-02-12 05:30:00 Markets Retirement Planning Gives Bigger Role to Theft Prevention as Risks Lurk Online With cyber fraud becoming more common, safeguarding your 401(k) account is a valuable habit
2021-02-12 05:30:00 World China Hints at a Shift on Climate A rare public rebuke of the energy agency signals to some that environmental regulators have been empowered to counter the coal industry
2021-02-12 05:28:00 Markets Oil Industry’s Dash for Gas Comes With Risks A Qatari megaproject and high spot prices in Asia could provoke overinvestment in liquefied natural gas
2021-02-12 05:01:00 Markets Stock Futures Tick Lower After S&P 500 Closes at Record High The S&P 500 is on track to end the week with muted gains after notching its ninth all-time closing high for the year on Thursday
2021-02-12 04:27:00 World U.K. Economy Suffers Biggest Slump in 300 Years Amid Covid-19 Lockdowns Lockdowns in Britain contributed to the largest contraction of the world’s major economies in 2020
2021-02-11 23:17:00 Politics Biden to Roll Back Medicaid Work Requirements States that favor Trump administration’s stricter program rules could challenge the action
2021-02-11 21:17:00 Politics Trump Impeachment Trial: Five Takeaways From the Third Day Key moments and themes from Thursday’s session as House managers finished making their case
2021-02-11 20:36:00 Opinion Star Wars: The Blacklist Strikes Back Actress Gina Carano falls victim to Hollywood’s new McCarthyism for conservatives.
2021-02-11 20:22:00 Business Jeep’s Super Bowl Success Is Thrown Into Reverse With Springsteen Drunk-Driving Charge Car maker becomes latest company to suffer fallout over a pricey commercial on advertising’s biggest night
2021-02-11 19:08:00 U.S. More Than 1.7 Million Counterfeit N95 Masks Seized in Queens Warehouse Raid turned up one of the largest caches of illegal personal protective equipment since the Covid-19 pandemic began
2021-02-11 18:50:00 Business Disney Ekes Out a Profit Under the Weight of Pandemic Problems The entertainment behemoth adds 21.2 million subscribers to Disney+ streaming service
2021-02-11 18:39:00 Opinion Biden’s Golden State Parachute His nominee for deputy Labor secretary presided over $11.4 billion in jobless benefits fraud.
2021-02-11 18:37:00 Opinion Strange New Respect for Mike Pence He’s a ‘patriot,’ a man of faith and courage, Democrats now say.
2021-02-11 18:35:00 World Appeals Court Clears Way for Extradition of Americans Accused in Ghosn Escape Father and son may soon be flown to Japan to face charges
2021-02-11 18:33:00 U.S. Biden Says U.S. Struck Deals for 200 Million More Covid-19 Vaccine Doses Deals follow pledge last month to boost number of shots available to Americans
2021-02-11 18:30:00 Markets Disney Is Priced for a Thrill Ride Strong streaming growth has propelled stock to a record valuation, despite pandemic’s continued pain
2021-02-11 18:29:00 Opinion The Fed’s ‘Racial Equity’ Dilemma New research shows how easy money can expand racial wealth gaps.
2021-02-11 18:28:00 Opinion Biden’s Short-Term Thinking Will the President restrict a useful health insurance option?
2021-02-11 18:15:00 Pro PE Industry News GPB Capital Agrees to SEC Monitor Sought to Protect Investors The agency asked a federal judge to install a monitor to help preserve what is left of some $1.7 billion invested in GPB Capital private-equity funds
2021-02-11 18:07:00 Pro PE Industry News New Mountain-Backed Signify Health Shares Surge in Public Debut After its IPO priced at $24 a share, the healthcare company’s shares surged nearly 32% Thursday
2021-02-11 18:00:00 Opinion A Vote to Acquit Is a Vote for a Lie And why didn’t Trump’s supporters in Congress go out on Jan. 6 and speak to the crowds, their people?
2021-02-11 17:58:00 Opinion Joe Biden’s Covid Schooling Rather than reopen classrooms, the new president coasts on his predecessor’s work.
2021-02-11 17:54:00 Opinion An ‘Economic Article 5’ to Counter China An attack on wines from Australia is an attack on democracy.
2021-02-11 17:54:00 Life & Arts Traveling the World With the Power of Spices From Somali Xawaash to Indian chaat masala, American cooks are embracing new combinations of aromas and flavors.
2021-02-11 17:52:00 Television Review ‘Voice of Freedom’ Review: Once-in-a-Century Singer A PBS ‘American Experience’ special looks at the life of contralto Marian Anderson, the first African-American soloist at the Met Opera.
2021-02-11 17:51:00 Books ‘Lincoln’s Mentors’ Review: The Education of a Leader Abraham Lincoln was largely self-educated, but he wisely chose a handful of mentors and role models who helped shape his political life.
2021-02-11 17:50:00 Opinion Everybody Calm Down About GameStop Like the 2010 ‘flash crash,’ the media overreaction will probably produce a government overreaction.
2021-02-11 17:47:00 Opinion As Covid Evolves, Treatments May Prove as Important as Vaccines The FDA has approved only a few therapeutic drugs. Many studies suggest promising options.
2021-02-11 17:44:00 Markets The Rise and Fall of the GameStop Frenzy Interest in the videogame retailer is fading, according to several market metrics
2021-02-11 17:37:00 Pro PE Fund News BayPine Progresses Toward $2 Billion Goal for Debut Fund The fund has held a first close of around $1.1 billion, people familiar with the matter said
2021-02-11 17:31:00 Opinion ‘Fact-Checking’ Biden Family Business Facebook and PolitiFact discourage investigation of foreign energy deals.
2021-02-11 17:05:00 Economy Transcript: WSJ Interview With San Francisco Fed Chief Mary Daly
2021-02-11 16:38:00 Film Review ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ Review: Betrayal of the Panther Party Shaka King’s thrilling biopic stars Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield as Fred Hampton and the FBI informant who turned on him.
2021-02-11 16:36:00 Opinion ‘All the Devils Are Here’ and ‘Molly Sweeney’ Reviews: Tales of Evil and Eyes Patrick Page stars in a one-man show about Shakespeare’s villains; a woman undergoes surgery to restore her sight in Brian Friel’s play.
2021-02-11 16:31:00 Film Review ‘Minari’ Review: Working the Land and the Heart Lee Isaac Chung’s semi-autobiographical film tells the story of a Korean family relocating to a farm in Arkansas.
2021-02-11 16:29:00 World China Orders BBC Off the Air in Its Territory Move, with uncertain impact in Hong Kong, comes after U.K. banned a Chinese news channel
2021-02-11 16:27:00 Politics Biden Says China Will ‘Eat Our Lunch’ on Infrastructure President emphasizes need for new transportation spending the day after two-hour call with Xi Jinping
2021-02-11 16:10:00 Television Review ‘Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy’ Review: Mouthwateringly Good In the actor’s CNN docuseries, he takes viewers on a delectable food tour featuring local pastas, cheeses and more.
2021-02-11 16:09:00 Politics More Proud Boys Arrested on Capitol-Riot Conspiracy Charges Detentions in Missouri, Arizona raise number of alleged affiliates of far-right group charged to more than a dozen
2021-02-11 16:00:00 Books Bestselling Books Week Ended February 6 With data from NPD BookScan
2021-02-11 15:24:00 Economy U.S. Debt on Track to Hit a Record 107% of GDP by 2031, CBO Says Deficit for fiscal 2021 will come to $2.3 trillion, almost $900 billion less than projected earlier, as economy revives
2021-02-11 15:10:00 Life & Arts Mercedes-AMG GLB 35: An Appealingly Unsleek Crossover A new body type, this compact, boxy SUV evokes a London taxi—if Germany had won the war. Result: a winning clunkiness and the best cargo and seating capacity in its class, writes Dan Neil
2021-02-11 14:59:00 Opinion Forgiving Student Debt Is Unwise and Unjust Forgiving student debt puts money in the pockets of people who least need it, those college graduates and others who pursued their dreams with other peoples’ cash.
2021-02-11 14:58:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Former Braskem CEO in Talks to Settle Bribery Charges José Carlos Grubisich is accused of helping funnel $250 million to slush fund for bribes
2021-02-11 14:58:00 Opinion Liz Cheney and the Future of the Republicans Many conservatives have become demoralized and discouraged with the America they see and live in.
2021-02-11 14:57:00 Opinion Be Smart and Take Advantage of the Vaccine Every unvaccinated individual who becomes infected becomes a potential incubator for a viral strain that mutates beyond the protective effects of the antibodies generated by both vaccines and the immune systems of previously infected individuals.
2021-02-11 14:16:00 Politics Biden Administration Working to Address Chip Shortage Affecting Auto Makers Effort will look to free up supply-chain choke points and work with producers, trade partners
2021-02-11 14:11:00 Markets Bumble Stock Surges More Than 70% in Market Debut The dating app maker’s stock opened at $76 a share, well above its IPO price of $43 to bring valuation to about $8.6 billion
2021-02-11 13:47:00 Markets GameStop Mania Is Focus of Federal Probes Into Possible Manipulation Justice Department has subpoenaed information from Robinhood Markets, others
2021-02-11 13:40:00 Life & Arts How to Quiet the Megaphones of Facebook, Google and Twitter Today’s often toxic social-media environment calls for a fix that puts choices back in the hands of consumers. A new layer of ‘middleware’ can do that.
2021-02-11 13:39:00 Life & Arts The Right Champagnes for Valentine's Day In the past sommeliers have guided wine drinkers to grower Champagnes—idiosyncratic, expressive, the antithesis of anodyne big brands. This year tracking them down might be a labor of love, but special bottles and great values await the tenacious.
2021-02-11 13:23:00 Deals Alden Is in Talks to Buy Tribune Publishing The hedge fund already owns a big stake in the newspaper chain behind titles including the Chicago Tribune and New York Daily News
2021-02-11 13:00:00 Tech Microsoft Urges U.S. to Make Tech Giants Pay for News Company President Brad Smith says Biden administration should copy Australian proposal opposed by Facebook and Google
2021-02-11 12:49:00 Opinion What Inflation Debates Miss: Inflation Focusing on consumer prices allows economists to miss all the other social danger signs of bad prices.
2021-02-11 12:48:00 Opinion California’s Unscientific Worship Ban Whether religious services are ‘essential’ isn’t a matter for government to decide.
2021-02-11 12:01:00 World In a Turnaround, Israel’s Netanyahu Woos Arab Voters to Sway Election Many Arab Israelis remain opposed to the prime minister, but some say they are willing to listen if he can help them tackle poverty and other problems
2021-02-11 12:00:00 Life & Arts How Brad Pitt Made Men Mad for Plaid Last fall, the paparazzi snapped the actor in a cashmere flannel with mega-checks that cost around $2,000—and the shirt went viral. Equally arresting but less paralyzingly priced: these five cotton options.
2021-02-11 11:47:00 Deals Apollo’s LifePoint in Talks to Buy Ardent Health Services Combined company could be valued above $10 billion including debt
2021-02-11 11:30:00 Markets Kraft Heinz Signals Covid-19 Feast Will Go On Food companies gave reasons for optimism about packaged-food demand continuing to be strong
2021-02-11 11:16:00 CFO Journal CFOs Hesitate to Invest in, Handle Bitcoin Due to Volatility Finance chiefs are watching closely after Tesla disclosed a $1.5 billion purchase this week
2021-02-11 10:49:00 Life & Arts How Retiree Shoes Like Mephistos and Merrells Got Cool In the WFH Era, Gen Z and millennials are trading hyped-up sneakers for practical, comfortable walking shoes with an orthopedic edge
2021-02-11 10:32:00 Markets Where Are the Customers’ Fully Autonomous Yachts? A Wall Street analyst’s ‘buy’ recommendation is worth a read in this frothy market
2021-02-11 10:19:00 Business Drugmakers Look for New Ways to Test Covid-19 Vaccines Researchers aim to measure how much immune response a shot triggers—potentially useful for assessing new shots and new uses
2021-02-11 10:00:00 Economy Forecasters Lift Expectations for 2021 Economic Growth Upbeat projections buoyed by vaccinations and stimulus outlook, though fears of virus variants are rising
2021-02-11 09:00:00 Business Major Hospitals Form Company to Capitalize on Their Troves of Health Data Demand from technology companies, insurers, drugmakers and others has created a gold rush
2021-02-11 09:00:00 U.S. Blunt Top Prosecutor on Capitol Riots, Michael Sherwin, May Stay On Under Biden Acting U.S. attorney’s office has charged more than 200 people so far
2021-02-11 08:50:00 Politics Cash-in-Pockets Emerges as New Democratic Approach to Federal Aid in Coronavirus Bill After-tax incomes for bottom 20% of households would rise by 20% under plan moving through House committees
2021-02-11 08:48:00 Business PepsiCo’s Snack Offerings Fuel Latest Results Demand for Cheetos and Tostitos offset weak soda sales, which company expects to pick up as restaurants and theaters reopen
2021-02-11 08:45:00 Business How Much Does a C-Section Cost? At One Hospital, Anywhere From $6,241 to $60,584. New federally mandated disclosures by California’s Sutter Health illustrate the wide disparity in healthcare rates negotiated by insurers
2021-02-11 08:33:00 Markets Next Stop for Electric-Vehicle SPAC Mania: the Jetsons Archer may take the lead in developing electric air taxis after merging with a blank-check company, but widespread adoption is still science fiction
2021-02-11 08:20:00 World Myanmar Coup Poses Diplomatic Challenge for World Leaders Even before Gen. Min Aung Hlaing wrested control, the U.S. had slapped sanctions on him, and his army’s campaigns are the subject of a genocide case
2021-02-11 08:00:00 World As Huawei Talks Stall, Detention of Two Canadians in China Drags On Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig were detained after a Huawei executive was arrested in Vancouver; ‘It was grueling,’ Mr. Kovrig’s wife said of the early months of his imprisonment
2021-02-11 08:00:00 Real Estate Four Seasons Resort in Napa Commanding Near-Record Sales Price Hotel and real-estate investors have made competing offers in excess of $170 million
2021-02-11 08:00:00 CFO Journal Online Grocer Weee Hires First CFO as It Looks to Grow Its Business Ankur Shah is tasked with helping the company expand into new markets
2021-02-11 07:59:00 Business AstraZeneca Plans to Double Covid-19 Vaccine Output Drugmaker booked $2 million in sales in 2020 from end-of-year shipments of the shot
2021-02-11 07:13:00 U.S. Olympic Medalist Is Among Those Indicted in Capitol Riot Probe Grand jury charges swimmer Klete Keller with felony offenses along with others suspected of being among the first to break into Capitol
2021-02-11 07:03:00 Markets Uber and Lyft’s Surge Pricing Looks Excessive Recent share price returns suggest Uber and Lyft are revved up for a ride-share recovery that may well run out of gas
2021-02-11 07:00:00 Orion Energy Surpasses $900 Million Target for Credit Fund The new pool likely will reach $1 billion, according to a person familiar with the situation
2021-02-11 07:00:00 Politics Biden’s China Tech Policy at Crossroads Over Commerce Security Pick One candidate advocates a hard line regarding exports while another has helped U.S. companies seeking exemptions to restrictions
2021-02-11 07:00:00 Markets Bitcoin to Come to America’s Oldest Bank, BNY Mellon The custody bank plans to eventually treat digital currencies like any other asset
2021-02-11 06:43:00 Markets Can a Cigarette Stock Be an Ethical Investment? Tobacco companies like Philip Morris International hope that a shift to e-cigarettes will help them shake their toxic reputation with investors
2021-02-11 06:29:00 Business Shell Hits Its Own Peak Oil, Plans to Reduce Output Energy giant joins peers it pledging to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels while tapping the growing electricity market
2021-02-11 06:29:00 Markets WallStreetBets Traders Set Cannabis Stocks Alight Individual investors on Reddit’s popular online forum are talking up marijuana stocks, sending shares of some U.S.-listed companies soaring
2021-02-11 06:12:00 Markets The Crown Resorts Affair Won’t Reward High Rollers The troubles of the casino operator might look like a buying opportunity. But regulators could spoil a happy ending.
2021-02-11 05:43:00 World China and India to Pull Back Forces From Disputed Border Move could help ease monthslong tensions, though the countries are still discussing other points of friction
2021-02-11 05:30:00 Business Another Remote-Work Year Looms as Office-Reopening Plans Are Delayed Return dates get pushed to September or beyond, keeping firms and employees in ‘moment of limbo’
2021-02-11 05:30:00 Markets Fintech Fundraising Fuels Hope for U.K. Finance Post-Brexit Companies such as Checkout, Monzo and Revolut have made the U.K. the largest market for fintechs outside the U.S.
2021-02-11 05:30:00 Economy Fed’s Daly Sees Central Bank Maintaining Its Bond-Buying Pace Through 2021 The San Francisco Fed chief says that another round of fiscal aid from the government shouldn’t overheat the economy
2021-02-11 05:30:00 Economy Winter Layoffs Show Early Signs of Easing Worker filings for unemployment benefits head toward a month of declines
2021-02-11 05:30:00 Tech Clubhouse and Social Audio Apps Are Having a Moment—Is It All Talk? Users flock to voice-based social platforms seeking new ways to connect, including some big names in Hollywood, politics and tech
2021-02-11 05:30:00 Politics On Third Day of Impeachment Trial, Democrats to Finish Presenting Case Seventeen Republican senators would need to join all Democrats to convict Trump
2021-02-11 05:30:00 Business CVS and Walmart Decide Who Gets Leftover Covid-19 Vaccine Doses Pharmacies and grocers grapple with whether their employees or the public should get first dibs on unused shots as they start to offer appointments
2021-02-11 05:30:00 U.N. Members Plan New Cyber Group as States Suffer Large-Scale Hacks The SolarWinds hack prompted diplomats to speed up international cyber discussions
2021-02-11 04:30:00 Markets Stock Futures Edge Higher Ahead of Jobless Claims Data S&P 500 futures tick up, suggesting the market gauge may make tepid gains after two days of declines
2021-02-11 04:29:00 Markets Oil Demand Recovery Expected to Outstrip Production Despite projecting continued rebalancing, IEA increases supply forecast
2021-02-11 04:23:00 Markets Covid-19’s Corporate Winners Should Beware a Push for Profit-Sharing In South Korea and the U.K., companies that have profited during the pandemic are under the scrutiny of governments
2021-02-11 04:08:00 Life & Arts Japan Olympic Chief Yoshiro Mori to Quit After Sexist Remarks Exit creates unusual and disruptive leadership change just before the Tokyo Games
2021-02-11 02:41:00 Tech Instagram Bans Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Over Covid-19 Vaccine Misinformation Parent company Facebook has been intensifying its effort to combat false and misleading information about Covid-19
2021-02-10 22:47:00 Business Tencent Executive Held by China Over Links to Corruption Case Zhang Feng has been investigated for alleged unauthorized sharing of personal data collected by WeChat to an ex-official
2021-02-10 22:09:00 Politics White House Names Cybersecurity Expert to Lead Response to SolarWinds Hack Anne Neuberger is the Biden administration’s point person on the suspected Russian breach of federal systems
2021-02-10 22:03:00 Politics Illegal Border Crossings Climbed in January, Raising Pandemic Worries Authorities say arrests rose after inauguration, express concern about rumors among migrants that Biden administration will let them stay
2021-02-10 21:47:00 Politics Trump Impeachment Trial: Five Takeaways From the Second Day House Democrats serving as impeachment managers made their case in the Senate on Wednesday
2021-02-10 19:58:00 World Hustler Publisher Larry Flynt Dies at 78 The pornography mogul challenged the establishment and became a target for the religious right and feminist groups
2021-02-10 19:53:00 Business Mastercard to Support Some Cryptocurrencies on Its Network Company says it is seeing more people using cards to buy crypto assets such as Bitcoin
2021-02-10 19:24:00 U.S. OIympic Medalist Is Among Those Indicted in Capitol Riot Probe Grand jury charges swimmer Klete Keller with felony offenses along with others suspected of being among the first to break into Capitol
2021-02-10 19:00:00 China Possible Early Covid-19 Cases in China Emerge During WHO Mission WHO team scrutinizing cases of 90 patients with coronavirus-like symptoms in October 2019, two months before Beijing acknowledged first infections
2021-02-10 19:00:00 U.S. MIT Grad Sought in Fatal Shooting of Yale Student Kevin Jiang The 26-year-old was shot to death in a car on Saturday night in New Haven, Conn., according to police officials
2021-02-10 18:50:00 Business Ford, Volkswagen EV Battery Supplier Dealt Setback by Trade Commission Ruling against SK Innovation in a trade-secrets case threatens future of Georgia complex being built to make batteries
2021-02-10 18:36:00 U.S. Jeep Pulls Bruce Springsteen Ad After Report of Drunken Driving Arrest Rock star charged in November with reckless driving, consuming alcohol in national park in New Jersey
2021-02-10 18:33:00 Opinion The Teachers Unions Roll Over Biden Even a $130 billion bribe won’t get them back in the classroom this school year.
2021-02-10 18:32:00 Opinion The Trump Impeachment Evidence He might be acquitted, but he won’t live down his disgraceful conduct.
2021-02-10 18:29:00 Opinion Leaving Afghanistan the Right Way Biden is rethinking Trump’s reckless May 1 withdrawal.
2021-02-10 18:27:00 Opinion States of Budget Surplus The Biden spending bill will have governors swimming in cash.
2021-02-10 18:17:00 Opinion George Shultz Had a Wise and Discerning Heart He was a Marine, an economist, a diplomat, a patriot and a statesman. He was also my friend.
2021-02-10 18:16:00 NRA’s Longtime Ad Agency Seeks to Dismiss Gun Rights Group’s Bankruptcy Case Ackerman McQueen says bankruptcy is a tactic in the gun group’s destructive litigation campaign
2021-02-10 18:16:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Financial Institutions Want More Clarity on Anti-Money-Laundering Changes Compliance professionals hope government will provide more input on its expectations following the enactment of an anti-money-laundering reform law, a recent poll found
2021-02-10 18:14:00 Opinion Biden Fired Me, by Order of Big Labor The purge at the Federal Services Impasse Panel bodes ill for the business of governing the country.
2021-02-10 18:13:00 Opinion Who’s a Threat to ‘Our Democracy’? When progressives single out threats to ‘our democracy,’ what they mean is their democracy.
2021-02-10 18:12:00 Opinion The Hubris of Joe Biden on Covid Relief As in 2009, jamming big spending through may cost Democrats in the next midterms.
2021-02-10 18:10:00 Books ‘Let’s Be Reasonable’ Review: How to Elevate Higher Learning Better than culture-war strife would be readings and conversations guided by wise professors. Is such a thing still possible on campuses today?
2021-02-10 18:09:00 Opinion Thanks but No Thanks, Uncle Sam A gift horse arrives thanks to the Covid stimulus. Let’s look it right in the mouth.
2021-02-10 17:54:00 Style & Substance Vol. 34, No. 1: Healthcare
2021-02-10 16:58:00 Economy Fed’s Powell Signals Easy Money Policies to Remain in Place for a While Fed chairman also says monetary policy alone won’t be enough to restore the labor market to full strength
2021-02-10 16:50:00 Politics Biden Administration Asks Supreme Court to Reject Challenge to Affordable Care Act A decision on case, argued in November, is pending before the high court
2021-02-10 16:46:00 World Saudi Activist Loujain al-Hathloul Released from Prison Hathloul, who campaigned against a ban on women driving, was detained in May 2018, weeks before the ban was lifted
2021-02-10 16:43:00 Art Review ‘Birds of the Northeast: Gulls to Great Auks’ Review: In Top-Flight Form An exhibit at Connecticut’s Fairfield University Art Museum combines scientific study and artistic interpretation.
2021-02-10 16:40:00 Music Review ‘Music’ by Sia Review: Stuck in the Now Released in conjunction with her movie of the same name, the pop artist’s new album is feel-good albeit generic.
2021-02-10 16:39:00 Business Best Buy to Lay Off Store Workers Sales have been surging since stores reopened and company had been bringing back many workers who were furloughed in April
2021-02-10 16:32:00 CFO Journal FASB Approves Tweak to Goodwill Accounting Rules for Private Companies, Nonprofits The move is aimed at helping businesses and organizations reduce costs, complexity
2021-02-10 16:29:00 Politics Biden Administration Says Schools Have Reopened If They Are Open One Day a Week The administration aims to have more than 50% of schools open at least one day a week in its first 100 days, a bar Republicans call too low
2021-02-10 16:15:00 World Iran’s Nuclear Program: How Close Is Tehran to Developing Nuclear Weapons? Iranian breaches of the 2015 nuclear deal raise fears that the country is paving the way to start work on nuclear weapons, raising pressure on President Biden
2021-02-10 16:13:00 Markets U.S. Treasury Yields Fall After Lackluster Inflation Data Data indicates investors will have to wait longer for increase in consumer prices that many have been expecting
2021-02-10 16:12:00 Business The SPAC Boom, Visualized See how the blank-check company craze has surpassed traditional IPOs over the past couple of years
2021-02-10 16:05:00 Business Uber’s Food-Delivery Business, Cost Cuts Cushion Pandemic Hit Ride-hailing giant’s annual loss narrows even as health crisis weighs on core operations
2021-02-10 15:44:00 Life & Arts Would You Wear ‘Rat Fur’? Torrey Peters Does The author of ‘Detransition, Baby: A Novel,’ on how a vintage trench coat lined with nutria—or giant swamp rats—became her style trademark
2021-02-10 15:22:00 Middle East Iran Has Started Producing Uranium Metal, in Violation of 2015 Accords, IAEA Says The material can be used to form the core of nuclear weapons; Iran says it is producing it for research purposes
2021-02-10 15:12:00 Screen Time What to Watch: ‘To All the Boys’ for the Third and Final Time Plus, ‘Clarice’ comes to CBS, Kristen Wiig’s ’Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar’ and Metallica gives Netflix’s ‘Crime Scene’ a leg up
2021-02-10 15:11:00 Life & Arts How to Invest in Heirloom-Worthy Clothes Forward-looking shoppers are skipping fast fashion and seasonal trends to buy high-quality pieces they can bequeath to their kids. Here, three women share their heirlooms-to-be.
2021-02-10 14:59:00 World U.S. to Impose Sanctions in Response to Myanmar's Military Coup President Biden says U.S. will seek to cut off funds and seize assets of those who directed the Feb. 1 takeover
2021-02-10 14:39:00 Opinion San Francisco’s Anti-School Board Meeting night at the country’s most politicized educational institution.
2021-02-10 14:37:00 Business Rihanna and LVMH Hit Pause on Fenty Fashion Line Success of Fenty Beauty, another joint venture between superstar and luxury company, proves hard to replicate for fashion
2021-02-10 14:34:00 Life & Arts Top Public and Private Colleges in the Midwest The University of Michigan and Northwestern University top these lists in the WSJ/THE College Rankings
2021-02-10 14:28:00 National Security Biden to Launch a Pentagon Review of China Strategy New task force will examine technology, intelligence, allies and the U.S. military footprint
2021-02-10 14:18:00 Economy U.S. Budget Deficit Widened Last Month as Latest Stimulus Package Took Effect The U.S. budget gap totaled a record $736 billion during the first four months of fiscal 2021, Treasury says
2021-02-10 14:05:00 Life & Arts Are Two Dining Tables Better Than One? Some designers opt for two dining-room tables to shake things up and diversify the function of an underused room. Others find the look cold, or worse. Here, both sides.
2021-02-10 14:04:00 U.S. Georgia Prosecutors Probe Efforts to Influence 2020 Election Fulton County DA orders state officials to preserve records related to the administration of the election results
2021-02-10 14:02:00 Opinion GOP House Leadership’s Missed Opportunity The Republican leadership, in particular, Kevin McCarthy, showed a lack of leadership and no guts in not removing Marjorie Greene from her positions on committees.
2021-02-10 13:59:00 Opinion Unrwa Fulfills Its U.N.-Mandated Mission Governments around the world acknowledge Unrwa’s work is an important part of maintaining regional stability until a lasting political solution is found.
2021-02-10 13:56:00 Opinion Voters Get What They Voted for With Biden Betsy LeRoy voted for Joe Biden but is now dismayed that his $15 minimum wage could put her out of business.
2021-02-10 13:47:00 Politics Biden's First Budget Proposal Will Be Delayed, White House Says Lack of cooperation during the transition from President Donald Trump’s administration is cited
2021-02-10 13:32:00 Business United Airlines to Buy 200 Flying Electric Taxis to Take You to the Airport Airline plans to buy vehicles from startup Archer for $1 billion
2021-02-10 13:15:00 Logistics Report Maersk Fourth-Quarter Earnings Surged as Outlook Disappoints Container shipping line says recovery from pandemic remains uncertain, soaring freight rates may level off
2021-02-10 13:07:00 Markets Fidelity Cashes In Most of GameStop Stake Firm sold nearly all positions in GameStop last month, ending run as volatile stock’s largest shareholder
2021-02-10 13:05:00 Opinion Can You Get Rich With Bitcoin? Sure, but Slowly Cryptocurrency is rising on a wave of enthusiasm. Yet its fundamentals have genuine value.
2021-02-10 13:01:00 Opinion Wisconsin’s Capitol Siege, 10 Years On States pinched by Covid need to make overdue bargaining reforms. My state showed the way.
2021-02-10 12:57:00 U.S. Which Americans Are Least Willing to Get a Covid-19 Vaccine Census survey shows vaccine hesitancy remains a challenge among Black and young people, those in the South
2021-02-10 12:43:00 World EU Fumbled Covid-19 Vaccine Campaign, Top Official Says Commission leader Ursula von der Leyen says bloc was slow to act and too optimistic about production
2021-02-10 12:36:00 World China Consumer Prices Fall Ahead of Lunar New Year Holiday The country’s factory-gate prices rose in January, after 11 months of deflation
2021-02-10 12:34:00 Arts The Morgan Wallen Rebuke: What’s the Impact of Country Music’s Response? The music industry distanced itself from the rising country star—but his latest album tops the charts. What the industry’s moves mean for his career and country music
2021-02-10 12:29:00 World Protests Against Myanmar’s Coup Return to Streets, Despite Gunshots and Water Cannons Fears of suppression grow, given the military’s history of deadly violence against pro-democracy demonstrations
2021-02-10 12:11:00 Markets Under Armour Shares Look Stretched The company beat modest expectations but it has yet to prove that its turnaround plan is working
2021-02-10 12:01:00 Pro PE Deals Fitness and Nutrition Companies to Combine in $3 Billion SPAC Merger Beachbody will combine in a three-way merger with blank-check company Forest Road Acquisition Corp. and Myx Fitness, which makes connected bicycles
2021-02-10 12:01:00 Tech Twitter Has Studied Using Bitcoin, CFO Says Social-media company says it has considered how it might pay employees, vendors in popular cryptocurrency
2021-02-10 11:59:00 Markets Stimulus Might Cause Higher Inflation, but for How Long? Combination of another round of Covid-19 relief and easing of pandemic’s grip could push prices higher
2021-02-10 11:58:00 CMO Today IPG Targets Return to Organic Growth for Year Ahead Advertising holding company plans an increased role for working from home and a reduced need for real estate
2021-02-10 11:38:00 Life & Arts For Golfers, a Covid Winter Brings Unexpected Perks As Americans tee up in record numbers this winter, resorts and clubs—from Oregon to North Dakota—are offering warmer-than-usual welcomes, with heated golf carts, shorter courses and a lot of whiskey
2021-02-10 11:28:00 Tech Facebook Moves to Muffle Politics on Its Platform Social-media company says it lowering the visibility of political content to promote healthier communities and suit users who don’t want to see it
2021-02-10 11:19:00 Markets GM Needs Cutting-Edge EVs to Match Its Green Ambitions The company has enjoyed a soaring stock-market valuation on the back of its EV plans, but peers are ahead with product launches
2021-02-10 11:14:00 Politics Businesses Worry About Biden’s Silence on Work-Visa Ban President has moved to undo many of Trump’s immigration policies, but curb on program prized by employers remains in effect
2021-02-10 11:00:00 Markets Coca-Cola Can’t Catch a Break The soft-drink maker faces a potentially huge tax liability
2021-02-10 10:53:00 Life & Arts The Ultimate 2021 Valentine’s Day Gift Guide for Optimists The best present this year? A bright outlook. Let her see the world through rose-colored glasses and other translucent bits of blush.
2021-02-10 10:40:00 Economy Fight Over a Bank Regulator Is About Obama’s Legacy Democratic activists’ dissatisfaction with Dodd-Frank law drives opposition to veteran of the party’s last administration
2021-02-10 10:24:00 Business Coca-Cola Hit by Resurgence of Covid-19 Beverage giant says worse-than-expected winter squeezed profit and revenue, but it predicts consumers will bounce back in second half of 2021
2021-02-10 10:20:00 Life & Arts A Speedy Beef-Noodle Stir-Fry With a Kick On the table in 25 minutes, this beef chow fun recipe gets its invigorating twist from fresh horseradish
2021-02-10 10:19:00 Markets Gamestop, Dogecoin Move off the Internet—to Highway Billboards Enthusiasts are buying up time alongside U.S. highways; at one company, an ad airs every 2.5 seconds
2021-02-10 10:19:00 World Indonesia Plane Crash: What Happened to the Sriwijaya Air Jet? Boeing 737-500 plunged into Java Sea with 62 on board, setting off an investigation into the cause
2021-02-10 09:07:00 Life & Arts What Delta’s Big Bet on Blocking Middle Seats Means for Flying The last U.S. airline with this policy has lost fliers to carriers with looser rules—here’s why Delta is holding out for now
2021-02-10 09:01:00 World Faulty Engine Controls Behind Sriwijaya Air Crash Had Been Reported Before, Probe Finds Nearing 11,000 feet after takeoff, the plane went from a normal nose-up position to a dangerously unstable, nose-down one in five seconds
2021-02-10 09:00:00 Markets GameStop Frenzy Echoes Sharp Moves Long Seen in Cryptocurrency Markets Groups who organize online and target a specific asset are a staple of the crypto world
2021-02-10 08:43:00 Business Covid-19 Antibody Drug Cocktail From Eli Lilly Cleared for Use FDA authorized combination of antibodies for treatment of recently diagnosed Covid-19 patients at high risk of severe disease
2021-02-10 08:34:00 Markets Chinese Liquor Giant Moutai Hits Heady $500 Billion Valuation Stock’s recent rally has turned Kweichow Moutai into one of the world’s most valuable consumer-goods companies
2021-02-10 08:20:00 Business Hasbro, Mattel Say Toy Boom to Extend Beyond Covid-19 U.S. toy sales jumped in 2020 as parents diverted spending to Monopoly and Barbie dolls
2021-02-10 08:13:00 Business GM Earnings Beat Wall Street Estimates Nation’s largest auto maker said it expects profits to climb this year despite supply-chain disruptions and rising material prices
2021-02-10 08:00:00 Business Americans Heating Outdoor Spaces Have Fired Up Propane Prices Frigid weather in parts of U.S., on top of higher exports to Asia, could push levels even higher
2021-02-10 07:54:00 Markets Advent Plans Sale of U.K. Electronics Maker Laird Unit Plan to sell Laird’s performance-materials operation comes as buyout firms fuel deal activity globally
2021-02-10 07:44:00 Markets Big Brewers Face Different Pandemic Hangovers Heineken thinks operating margins will only recover to pre-Covid levels in 2023, while smaller rival Carlsberg is already back on track
2021-02-10 07:04:00 Markets Chip Shortage is No Match for Sturdy Toyota To rivals’ chagrin, Toyota says it is doing just fine with the global automotive chip shortage
2021-02-10 07:02:00 World China’s Covid-19 Vaccine Makers Struggle to Meet Demand Countries depending on Chinese shots report delays while Beijing’s domestic rollout gets off to a slow start
2021-02-10 07:00:00 Tech TikTok Sale to Oracle, Walmart Is Shelved as Biden Reviews Security Trump-driven deal had languished as video-sharing app’s Chinese owner mounted successful legal challenges
2021-02-10 06:02:00 Pro VC New Money Self-Driving Trucking Startup Taps U.S., Chinese Investors PlusAI nets $200 million from prominent investors as it ramps up commercial work
2021-02-10 06:00:00 CMO Today ‘Gravity’ Blanket Maker Sold to Holding Company for Direct-Commerce Brands Win Brands Group raises $50 million to buy more marketers that made their names selling directly to consumers online
2021-02-10 05:33:00 Markets Fidelity Holds Secret Weapon to Take On Robinhood and Vanguard Firm’s offspring, Geode Capital Management, is strong competitor in era of low-cost investing
2021-02-10 05:30:00 CFO Journal Eli Lilly Doesn’t Plan to Claw Back Past Pay From Former CFO Josh Smiley will forfeit his bonus for 2020 and other incentive compensation after he resigned following allegations of an inappropriate personal relationship
2021-02-10 05:30:00 Markets America Went on a Borrowing Binge, but Banks Were Left Out Lenders are flush with cash they want to put to use, and banks hope loan growth will pick up in 2021
2021-02-10 05:30:00 World China’s Coal War With Australia Fuels Shortage at Home The trade dispute has forced Chinese buyers to pay steep premiums for imports amid a supply crunch
2021-02-10 05:30:00 Politics On Day Two of Trump Impeachment Trial, Democrats Lay Out Their Case House impeachment managers and the former president’s defense team will each have 16 hours to present their arguments
2021-02-10 05:26:00 World Twitter Blocks Some Accounts in India Again Following Government Demands The social-media company says it won’t block accounts of journalists, media entities and politicians
2021-02-10 04:58:00 Markets Stock Futures Rise Ahead of Inflation Data S&P 500 futures ticked up as investors await earnings results from a number of companies including Uber Technologies
2021-02-10 03:04:00 Business Toyota Sees Faster Profit Rebound Despite Chip Shortage Japanese car maker says steady relationships with suppliers help it keep production going amid semiconductor turmoil
2021-02-09 22:15:00 Politics Trump Impeachment Trial: Five Takeaways From the First Day Top moments and themes from Tuesday’s presentations and vote on the constitutionality of the proceedings
2021-02-09 20:38:00 Politics GOP Senators Pan Performance of Trump Impeachment Team Lead defense lawyer ‘just rambled on and on and on,’ says one Republican lawmaker
2021-02-09 20:37:00 Markets SoftBank to Make $900 Million Investment in Pacific Biosciences PacBio investment will be made through asset-management arm SB Northstar
2021-02-09 19:57:00 Business Aunt Jemima Has a New Name: Pearl Milling PepsiCo unit rebrands pancake products following criticism of brand’s origins in racist imagery
2021-02-09 19:57:00 Opinion Biden ‘Inheritance’ Larger than Previously Reported The president gives another bleak assessment on the economy while his Labor Department reports an increase in job openings.
2021-02-09 19:30:00 Markets Twitter Has Bigger Problems Than Trump Shares have soared recently, but heavy investments show the social-media platform has some rough edges to smooth out
2021-02-09 19:13:00 Markets Nasdaq, NYSE Sue SEC to Block Market Data Overhaul Agency approved plan in December that threatens exchange operator’s data revenue
2021-02-09 19:00:00 Politics As Trump Impeachment Trial Begins, Lawmakers Relive Chaos of Capitol Riot The trial is unfolding on the stage where the riot happened, with crucial characters now serving as jurors in judgment of the former president
2021-02-09 19:00:00 Opinion The Great Student Loan Scam Democrats lobby Biden to write off debt for affluent borrowers.
2021-02-09 18:59:00 Opinion Junk Has Never Been So Valued The average yield on low-rated bonds falls below 4% for the first time.
2021-02-09 18:58:00 Opinion Biden Sacks a Corruption Prober Even Senate Democrats wonder why he ousted an Illinois U.S. Attorney.
2021-02-09 18:58:00 Opinion The Costs of Killing Keystone XL Even allies are asking Biden to reconsider his executive order.
2021-02-09 18:47:00 Opinion When Social Media Enters the Stock Market Students debate the lessons of the Reddit-driven GameStop mania.
2021-02-09 18:42:00 U.S. U.S. Chamber of Commerce Board Names Suzanne Clark New CEO Successor to longtime leader Thomas Donohue will be first woman to lead organization
2021-02-09 18:37:00 Opinion What George Shultz Taught Us About Making Policy Begin with a goal, focus on the long term, talk to the other side, and never make empty threats.
2021-02-09 18:19:00 Opinion America Is Back. Where Were You? To hear progressives talk, you’d think Canada and the U.S. emerged from enemy occupations.
2021-02-09 18:19:00 Opinion Biden’s Commitment to Yemen Eight years ago, he stood with us. Times are harder, and we still need the U.S.
2021-02-09 18:18:00 Opinion EVs Are the Lowest Climate Priority No matter how you slice the data, the car in your driveway is an emissions asterisk.
2021-02-09 18:17:00 Opinion Have Teachers Unions Finally Overplayed Their Hand? Their rigid opposition to charter schools and in-person learning has parents and even politicians fed up.
2021-02-09 18:16:00 Books ‘A Shot in the Moonlight’ Review: Vigilantes in the Dock It was the first time that a black man in the South had dared to sue a white mob for damages, and it caused a sensation.
2021-02-09 17:56:00 Deals Activist Investor Ancora to Launch Proxy Fight at Forward Air Group plans to nominate four directors to trucking company’s board
2021-02-09 17:46:00 Health Policy Biden Administration Plans Covid-19 Safety Campaign Focused on Social Distancing, Mask Wearing Strategy will delay broader vaccine awareness push until supply increases and instead target vaccine skepticism in narrower effort
2021-02-09 17:39:00 CIO Journal PPG Names Tech Veteran to Head Its IT Efforts Bhaskar Ramachandran joins a company coming off several M&A deals
2021-02-09 17:37:00 Business Biden Climate Change Strategy Draws Farm Belt Support, Concern Corn growers say they would like new administration to maintain federal backing for ethanol as fuel additive
2021-02-09 17:32:00 Markets Colin Kaepernick Targets a Socially-Driven Billion-Dollar Company With New SPAC The former 49ers quarterback will serve as the co-chair of a new blank-check company that will target businesses with an enterprise value of more than $1 billion
2021-02-09 17:19:00 Hackers Targeted Financial Sector in Mass Extortion Campaign Late last year more than 100 firms were threatened with DDoS attacks unless they paid off a group that variously posed as Fancy Bear and Lazarus, an industry group said
2021-02-09 16:56:00 Tech Match Group Buys South Korean Social-Media Company for $1.73 Billion The purchase of Seoul-based Hyperconnect is Match’s largest ever acquisition
2021-02-09 16:36:00 Business Trade Deals Key to Lifting Demand for Agricultural Products, Farmers Say Corn, cattle farmers tell WSJ Global Food Forum that prioritizing trade would help reduce the need for government aid
2021-02-09 16:31:00 Business Twitter Adds Users Through Trump Ban Social-media company warned user growth might slow this year as pandemic impact ebbs
2021-02-09 16:21:00 Television Review ‘The Map of Tiny Perfect Things’ Review: Rom-Com Merry-Go-Round Kyle Allen and Kathryn Newton play teenagers stuck in a ‘Groundhog Day’-like time loop.
2021-02-09 16:21:00 Pro PE Legal Regulatory SEC Seeks Outside Monitor to Protect GPB Capital Investors The agency wants a monitor to govern key actions by the firm at the center of an alleged $1.7 billion Ponzi-like scheme
2021-02-09 16:05:00 Business Lyft Curbs Losses During Pandemic With Aggressive Cost Cuts Ride-hailing company’s president points to $360 million in savings for fixed expenses last year
2021-02-09 16:05:00 Television Review ‘If I Can’t Have You: The Jodi Arias Story’ Review: Outrage Revisited A Discovery+ documentary re-examines the sensational 2013 murder trial that turned the accused into a public villain.
2021-02-09 15:47:00 Opinion Fining Nonvoters Is a Terrifically Good Idea I look forward to working with Republicans and Democrats alike on making our democracy more accessible.
2021-02-09 15:46:00 Opinion Equity, Equality, Fairness and Good Sense As Mr. Riley states, equality can be interpreted as equal opportunity, while equity can assume an equal outcome
2021-02-09 15:44:00 Opinion Biden Is Right on Start Treaty With Russia Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
2021-02-09 15:38:00 U.S. Shooting in Buffalo, Minn., Health Clinic Being Investigated Governor says suspect in custody after multiple people were shot; improvised explosive devices also found
2021-02-09 15:11:00 Business IBM Is the Biggest Gainer in the Management Top 250 A big improvement in the tech giant’s score for innovation helped boost its overall score.
2021-02-09 15:07:00 Politics Schumer Says Senate Democrats Working to Raise Minimum Wage Including the measure in Covid-19 relief legislation faces procedural hurdles and opposition from at least one Senate Democrat
2021-02-09 15:00:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Suspicious Activity Reports Related to Cash Transactions Surge Filings related to transactions just below the threshold for currency transaction reports hit a record in 2020, data shows
2021-02-09 14:36:00 Tech Face Masks Go High-Tech, But Do You Need One? We tested a few ‘smart,’ app-enabled masks to see if they’re too much trouble—or a breath of tech air
2021-02-09 14:30:00 Markets French Bank Natixis, Plagued by Setbacks, to Go Private in $4.5 Billion Deal Financial group BPCE offers to buy out Natixis shareholders, ending the bank’s bumpy run as public company
2021-02-09 14:19:00 World Polish Court Orders Historians to Apologize for Naming Mayor in Holocaust Dispute Historians’ study had identified a local official as an accused collaborator with the Nazis
2021-02-09 14:07:00 Markets EA Needs This Mobile Play to Stick Acquisition of Glu Mobile is videogame publisher’s latest attempt to buy into a difficult market
2021-02-09 14:00:00 Tech Most Salesforce Employees to Work Remotely at Least Part Time After Pandemic Software giant plans for staff to work from office several days a week or from home full-time, with just a fraction required on site daily
2021-02-09 13:39:00 Politics Impeachment Trial: An Annotated Look at Trump’s Speech Before the Capitol Riot Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 rally speech is at the center of the second impeachment trial against the former president. Read the speech with annotations on passages cited by the two sides.
2021-02-09 13:36:00 Business ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ Developer Says Hacker Has Threatened to Release Sensitive Data CD Projekt says it doesn’t believe cyberattack compromised personal information of players
2021-02-09 13:21:00 Politics OMB Nominee Neera Tanden Says She Regrets Past Tweets Nominee for budget office director has drawn criticism for her past tweets about Republicans and Sen. Bernie Sanders
2021-02-09 13:20:00 Politics SEC Expands Enforcement Staff’s Power to Start New Investigations The number of new probes fell every year from 2016 to 2019 during the Trump administration
2021-02-09 12:59:00 Opinion Successes and Setbacks in Covid Vaccination Setting policy at the state level seems to work better than letting cities jockey.
2021-02-09 12:57:00 Opinion The NYSE Isn’t Moving—Yet A revived stock-transfer tax that is moving in Albany could force us to find a new home.
2021-02-09 12:50:00 Tech Huawei Files U.S. Lawsuit Disputing That It Is a Security Threat Chinese telecom giant challenges FCC ruling, as founder says he would welcome Biden outreach
2021-02-09 12:48:00 World Iran Begins Covid-19 Vaccination Campaign Tehran works to contain the Mideast’s worst outbreak after blaming U.S. sanctions for impeding vaccine imports
2021-02-09 12:46:00 Life & Arts When Should Baby Boomers Step Down? Readers Weigh In Readers share their thoughts on an article about the often difficult call on when to retire
2021-02-09 12:44:00 Markets Why Bitcoin Hasn’t Gained Traction as a Form of Payment The cost of using the digital currency, and its volatility, make day-to-day transactions impractical
2021-02-09 12:25:00 Politics Biden Administration to Ask Dozens of Trump-Appointed U.S. Attorneys to Resign Justice Department is expected to spare the prosecutor leading the Hunter Biden tax probe
2021-02-09 11:40:00 Business Fox News Signs CEO Suzanne Scott to New Multiyear Deal Cable network’s parent reports strong quarterly results, boosted by political advertising
2021-02-09 10:29:00 Life & Arts MLB, Players’ Union Agree to 7-Inning Doubleheaders, Extra Innings Runner for 2021 The deal, which updates health and safety protocols, brings back a couple of experimental features from 2020, but doesn’t include a DH in the National League or expanded playoffs
2021-02-09 10:28:00 Markets Apple Won’t Struggle to Find Co-Driver on Car Project Nissan signaled a willingness to partner with the iPhone maker on Tuesday, after Hyundai said it was no longer in talks
2021-02-09 10:20:00 CFO Journal Lilly CFO Josh Smiley Resigns Following Allegations of Inappropriate Personal Relationship Drugmaker appoints Anat Ashkenazi to succeed him as finance chief
2021-02-09 10:14:00 Markets No Quick Fix for Auto Chip Shortage Over-reliance on TSMC and soaring cost of old gear limits capacity expansion
2021-02-09 10:09:00 Markets The Oil Giant With a Head Start in the Energy Transition Total’s prudent management in recent years set it up well for the trauma of 2020
2021-02-09 10:00:00 U.S. NYC Investors Turbo Charge Local Startups Among the rounds that closed in 2020: $47 million for a hair-loss-prevention service and $9 million for a company making human-grade cat food
2021-02-09 09:16:00 Business Super Bowl Draws Lowest Audience Since 2007 About 96.4 million tuned in to watch the Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat the Kansas City Chiefs
2021-02-09 09:01:00 Markets Markets Don’t Think Biden’s $1.9 Trillion Covid Relief Is Too Much Investors are predicting the sort of inflation they like, slightly higher in the next few years but moderating back down after that
2021-02-09 09:00:00 Experience Report Shopify Expands Its Checkout System to Facebook and Instagram Customers will be able to use the system, called Shop Pay, to complete purchases on the social platforms
2021-02-09 09:00:00 Politics How Covid-19 Deepened Political Divides in Pennsylvania’s Capital The pandemic has sparked partisan anger and mistrust between lawmakers in Harrisburg
2021-02-09 08:36:00 Business China Scandals Put Crown Resorts’ Sydney Casino License at Risk Inquiry report alleges company allowed money laundering and disregarded employees’ welfare
2021-02-09 08:34:00 World Immigrants and Their Children Shift Toward Center-Right in Germany Majority of foreign-born Germans and offspring now support conservative parties, providing new pool of voters for Merkel’s party
2021-02-09 08:12:00 Business Fox News Moves to Dismiss Defamation Suit by Voting-Machine Company Cable network argues that President Trump’s election-manipulation claims were newsworthy
2021-02-09 08:04:00 Finance How a Surefire Bet on Ant Group Has Trapped Global Investors Unconventional terms of a 2018 investment deal mean foreign money managers have to wait for Ant to revive its listing plans
2021-02-09 08:00:00 Real Estate Covid-19 Forces Co-Working Firms to Recast Their Business Model Pandemic is accelerating the end of the industry’s lease-and-sublet model, some suggest
2021-02-09 08:00:00 Real Estate U.K. Property Market Looks Poised for a Post-Brexit Comeback With Britain’s EU exit completed and Covid-19 vaccinations rolling ahead, analysts foresee a strong rebound in 2021
2021-02-09 08:00:00 Life & Arts U.A.E.’s Hope Mars Mission Signals New Era of Global Space Exploration The first interplanetary probe from an Arab nation aims to enter orbit around the red planet today
2021-02-09 07:45:00 Markets Hong Kong Exchanges Names JPMorgan’s Nicolas Aguzin as CEO Banker appointed for three-year term at the helm of what is now the world’s most valuable exchange group
2021-02-09 07:40:00 Politics Trump Impeachment Trial: The Republican Senators to Watch While most Republicans are likely to vote to acquit the former president, a handful of votes appear to be in play
2021-02-09 07:03:00 Real Estate Houston Warehouse Construction Risks Creating Glut Rush to build during e-commerce boom is leading to oversupply of space in the Texas city
2021-02-09 07:00:00 Markets Credit-Card Companies Should Open Their Wallets Bank investors appear to be focused on expenses right now, but that might not be the right way to gauge which lenders will be best positioned for the future
2021-02-09 07:00:00 Real Estate Trump Partner Exploring Ways to End Relationship With Ex-President’s Company Vornado considers step after efforts to sell, refinance office towers misfired, possibly due to Trump stake
2021-02-09 06:29:00 World Hong Kong’s Top Court Denies Bail to Pro-Democracy Publisher Jimmy Lai Panel of five judges rules lower court was wrong to free the media mogul, raising the bar for bail in national-security cases
2021-02-09 05:56:00 World Coronavirus Most Likely Spilled Over to Humans Through Intermediate Animal, Says WHO
2021-02-09 05:30:00 Business Stores Have a Mission: Getting You to Keep That Thing You Bought Online With more shopping moving online for good, retailers introduce new tools to rein in costly returns; 3-D body scans
2021-02-09 05:30:00 CFO Journal Providing Timely ESG Information Is Becoming More Crucial for CFOs Analysts and investors rely on data when evaluating a company’s outlook, creditworthiness
2021-02-09 05:30:00 Markets Diamond Prices Regain Their Sparkle Pent-up jewelry demand has lifted the gems’ valuations while online sales have grown
2021-02-09 05:30:00 Economy Job Openings Pick Up in Pandemic-Resilient Industries Help-wanted ads returned to pre-pandemic levels last month, as businesses seek to fill jobs, according to job-search site Indeed
2021-02-09 05:30:00 Markets Covid-19 Mortgage Relief Ends Soon for Millions of Homeowners Many who struggle during the pandemic won’t be able to resume paying their monthly mortgage bills when yearlong forbearance plans run out
2021-02-09 05:30:00 Politics Second Trump Impeachment Trial Opens With Debate Over Senate’s Power Democratic impeachment managers set to argue that a president isn’t exempt from a trial just because impeachable actions occurred in the final weeks of the administration
2021-02-09 05:00:00 Markets Stock Futures Drift Lower After S&P 500’s Record Close S&P 500 futures wavered between gains and losses, suggesting that the broad market may take a breather after climbing Monday to an all-time high
2021-02-09 05:00:00 U.S. Getting Teachers the Covid-19 Vaccine Is a Hurdle to Reopening Schools As educators face vaccination access issues and some voice hesitancy, the CDC is set to release new recommendations on reopenings
2021-02-08 22:20:00 World U.S. Prosecutors Investigate Honduras President for Taking Drug-Related Bribes Filing marks first time American prosecutors have made public that they are investigating the president
2021-02-08 20:46:00 Business Boeing Board Failed to Challenge CEO on 737 MAX Safety, Lawsuit Says Then-CEO Dennis Muilenburg focused on negative press following crashes, according to newly revealed communications
2021-02-08 20:13:00 Tech Reddit’s Valuation Doubles to $6 Billion After Funding Round Its WallStreetBets community played a prominent role in recent stock-trading frenzy
2021-02-08 19:18:00 World Colombia to Grant Many Undocumented Venezuelans With Legal Status President Duque calls on other countries to act in solidarity with refugees
2021-02-08 19:10:00 Politics Biden, India’s Modi Discuss Myanmar, Security Challenges Posed by China U.S. president has yet to speak with China’s leader, but phone calls with allies have set the stage
2021-02-08 18:49:00 Opinion Why Democrats Want a Trump Trial They already know the result, but they think it will hurt the GOP.
2021-02-08 18:45:00 Opinion Reality Check for a $15 Minimum Wage How many jobs for the young and unskilled do Democrats want to lose?
2021-02-08 18:42:00 Opinion Hope Over Experience at the U.N. Biden ‘reengages’ with a dictators’ club called the Human Rights Council.
2021-02-08 18:41:00 Opinion Biden’s Yemen Gamble The Houthis respond to a U.S. concession by escalating against Saudi Arabia.
2021-02-08 18:41:00 U.S. Hacker Changed Chemical Level in Florida City’s Water System Public wasn’t in danger, Pinellas County sheriff says; investigation has been launched
2021-02-08 18:38:00 Logistics Report Trucking Failures Surged Last Year Under Pandemic Smaller truckers faltered as business tailed off in early days of lockdown while larger, well-capitalized operators powered through
2021-02-08 18:36:00 U.S. Justice Department Ends Lawsuit Against Former Melania Trump Aide Suit sought proceeds of Stephanie Winston Wolkoff’s tell-all book
2021-02-08 18:31:00 Pro Bankruptcy Boy Scouts Sex-Abuse Lawyers Decry ‘Intimidation’ From Insurers Law firms representing victims of childhood sexual abuse say their claims hold up to scrutiny
2021-02-08 18:30:00 Opinion The Political Logic of the Trump Trial Democrats seek to divide Republicans and see little downside. That may turn out to be a miscalculation.
2021-02-08 18:29:00 Opinion Will Biden Stop Trump’s Afghan Retreat? The Taliban has given every sign that it will harbor terrorists again after April.
2021-02-08 18:28:00 Opinion Biden Fumbles Early on Opioid Addiction He rolls back a Trump reform to increase access to treatment.
2021-02-08 18:27:00 Books ‘Smalltime’ Review: Johnstown After Dark A distinguished author’s search for Grandpa, a raffish ‘supplier of nightlife’ to a Mafia-run backwater in central Pennsylvania.
2021-02-08 18:26:00 Opinion How to Keep America Polarized Democrats are happy to throw over any rule, custom or convention that gets in their way.
2021-02-08 18:25:00 Opinion The Antidote to Trump Isn’t Obama Redux U.S. allies worry that Biden may turn out to be all posturing and talk, no action.
2021-02-08 18:19:00 Politics Democrats’ Stimulus Plan Offers $1,400 Checks at Same Income Levels as Previous Rounds Proposal heads for Ways and Means Committee vote this week with income cutoffs starting at $75,000 and $150,000
2021-02-08 17:57:00 CFO Journal SEC Urges Company Disclosures on Fundraising During Market Frenzy The regulator outlines the type of questions it may ask businesses wanting to raise capital
2021-02-08 17:56:00 Politics U.S. Drops Challenge to California’s Net-Neutrality Law Justice Department’s move may signal a shift back to an Obama-era policy aimed at equal access to the internet
2021-02-08 17:54:00 Pro Bankruptcy NRA Director Seeks Examiner to Probe Alleged Financial Abuses at Gun Group Surprise move adds to NRA’s legal turmoil in bankruptcy court
2021-02-08 17:51:00 Tech Electronic Arts Buys Glu Mobile, Maker of ‘Kim Kardashian: Hollywood’ The videogame giant looks to expand its presence in mobile gaming, where it has had mixed success, in $2.4 billion deal
2021-02-08 17:12:00 Markets What Is Dogecoin, How to Say It, and Why It’s No Longer a Joke (Thanks, Elon!) The cryptocurrency was created for laughs, serves no purpose, and is now worth more than Western Union or Under Armour
2021-02-08 17:06:00 Valaris Bankruptcy Deal Settles Fight Between Lenders and Bondholders Bankrupt offshore drilling contractor said Citigroup-led group will now have leeway to take more cash instead of stock
2021-02-08 17:02:00 U.S. New York City Indoor Dining to Resume Friday The state and the city also plan arts programming as Cuomo and de Blasio tout culture’s role in reopening
2021-02-08 16:54:00 Business AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 Vaccine Defended by World Health Officials WHO officials say they are confident that the shot will prevent serious illness and death from the new South African strain, despite a recent study
2021-02-08 16:51:00 Business On Twitter, Elon Musk Has Mused About Bitcoin ‘Bitcoin is almost as bs as fiat money,’ CEO said in December. Tesla now says it purchased $1.5 billion worth of the cryptocurrency.
2021-02-08 16:48:00 Music Review ‘Tyron’ by Slowthai Review: A Rapper’s Two Sides On his sophomore album, the British artist tries to reconcile his angry past with his hope for a more grounded future.
2021-02-08 16:38:00 Markets Yield on 30-year Treasury Hits 2% for First Time Since Pandemic Widening spreads between short- and long-term yields bode well for economy and banks but poorly for Treasury holders
2021-02-08 16:24:00 Economy $15 Minimum Wage Would Cut Employment, Reduce Poverty, CBO Study Finds Nonpartisan study says raising minimum wage would cost 1.4 million jobs but lift 900,000 people above the poverty line
2021-02-08 16:15:00 World U.S. to Resume Work With U.N. Human Rights Council Washington to start with observer status and seek overhauls in group
2021-02-08 16:13:00 Markets Tesla Buys $1.5 Billion in Bitcoin: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Elon Musk’s bitcoin purchase for Tesla is another warning for investors in the wake of GameStop mania
2021-02-08 16:07:00 Television Review ‘Black Art: In the Absence of Light’ Review: Seeing American Art History Anew An HBO documentary explores the oft-forgotten history of Black artists—from movements of the past half-century to today’s luminaries, including Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley and Jordan Casteel—often in their own words.
2021-02-08 15:57:00 U.S. Yearlong Prison Sentence Handed Down in Fraud Probe of Giuliani Associates David Correia ordered detained after pleading guilty to lying to federal election officials and duping investors
2021-02-08 15:56:00 Experience Report Airlines Upgrade Loyalty Programs and Perks to Meet Millennial Tastes Younger travelers are flying more than older ones, pushing airlines to rethink frequent-flier programs
2021-02-08 15:54:00 Economy U.S. Budget Deficit Widened Sharply in January, CBO Says The federal budget deficit was $348 billion in the same period last year
2021-02-08 15:43:00 Music Review ‘Let My People Go’ by Archie Shepp and Jason Moran Review: Way Down in Jazz Land The saxophonist and pianist collaborate on an album featuring new duet versions of standards by John Coltrane, Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk.
2021-02-08 15:35:00 Politics Rep. Ron Wright Dies of Covid-19, First Sitting Congressman Killed by Virus Texas Republican, aged 67, was just beginning second term
2021-02-08 15:10:00 Life & Arts For Some Single Women, Pandemic Means Rethinking Route to Motherhood The Covid pandemic has both made it harder to meet a partner and provided time for introspection, fueling some new decisions among single women in their 30s and 40s
2021-02-08 14:53:00 Politics Child Tax Credit Poised for Expansion in Stimulus Bill Democrats prepare temporary expansion of tax break for families with children
2021-02-08 14:53:00 Business DoorDash Adds Startup Chowbotics for Meal Preparation Food-delivery company is exploring how automation could help restaurants expand menu and market
2021-02-08 14:50:00 Opinion The Vast Anti-Trump ‘Conspiracy’ Time magazine reports there was ‘practically a revolution’ in America’s voting process in 2020. Was it good for the country—or just for Biden?
2021-02-08 14:42:00 Pro PE Legal Regulatory Placement Agent Co-Founder Sues Former Firm for Discrimination Alan Pardee, who left Mercury Capital Advisors last year, alleges his former firm treats women and people of color unfairly
2021-02-08 14:42:00 Markets Robinhood Faces Wrongful-Death Lawsuit Over Young Trader’s Suicide Company also faces class-action lawsuits over its decision last month to restrict trading in several highflying stocks
2021-02-08 14:02:00 Opinion Truth, Not a Truth Ministry, Will Set Us Free I was struck again by how much closer our political environment is to that described in George Orwell’s book “1984” now than when I first read it in the 1960s.
2021-02-08 13:59:00 Opinion Inflation’s Fire Next Time May Soon Be Here The Federal Reserve appears clueless about the dangers.
2021-02-08 13:59:00 Opinion The Filibuster Really Isn’t Much Help for Democracy The point of the filibuster is not—and has never been—to achieve bipartisan consensus; it is instead a tool that aims to, and succeeds at, disempowering the majority.
2021-02-08 13:59:00 World After Indian Glacier Bursts, Rescue Workers Search for People Trapped in Debris At least 26 were killed after a flash flood devastated a Himalayan valley
2021-02-08 13:51:00 World China Appears to Block Social-Media Platform Clubhouse After Brief Flourishing of Debate The hit chat app had attracted thousands of users in China, who used it to discuss taboo topics including Xinjiang and human rights
2021-02-08 13:39:00 Politics Trump Lawyers Call Impeachment Trial ‘Political Theater’ Proceedings are set to start Tuesday and could include witnesses
2021-02-08 13:31:00 Fed’s Mester Says Central Bank Support Will Remain in Place a ‘Long Time’
2021-02-08 13:02:00 Opinion George Shultz, Statesman of the Century Strategy, reflection and restraint made him one of the greatest diplomats of his era.
2021-02-08 13:01:00 Opinion Talk About Putting Politics in the Bedroom! Activist David Hogg says he’ll start a pillow maker to compete with Mike Lindell. Where does it end?
2021-02-08 12:47:00 Politics Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby Won’t Run for Re-Election Several other Republican senators have announced plans to retire
2021-02-08 12:24:00 World Russia’s EU Snub Gives U.S. an Opening Anger in EU over top diplomat’s trip to Moscow could ease alignment between Brussels and Biden administration
2021-02-08 12:00:00 Business Meatpackers Want Workers to Get Covid-19 Vaccines, but Some Aren’t So Sure Companies use cash bonuses, videos to promote vaccination; some workers worry about side effects
2021-02-08 11:34:00 Logistics Report Shipping Companies Look at Sailing Away From Choked Southern California Gateways Dozens of ships are waiting offshore, disrupting supply chains and sending carriers and their customers looking for alternatives
2021-02-08 11:26:00 Life & Arts Tampa Bay Won the Super Bowl at Home. It May Become a Covid Spreader. Large celebrations in Tampa after the Buccaneers’ win have raised concern over increased transmission of the virus
2021-02-08 11:08:00 World Third Chinese Covid-19 Vaccine Was 66% Effective in Late-Stage Study A vaccine being used by the Chinese military proved effective and is headed for countries outside China
2021-02-08 11:08:00 A-hed Angry Robinhood Traders Take Aim at the Wrong Robin Hood After the brokerage restricted trading in GameStop, outraged tweets struck a Robin Hood historical group that found a new audience for the legendary outlaw
2021-02-08 11:01:00 Economy Consumers Expect to Spend More in a Year, Fed Survey Shows
2021-02-08 10:53:00 Life & Arts The Grandparents Have Gotten Their Covid-19 Vaccine. Is it Finally OK to Visit Them? Many families who have stayed away from older relatives are hoping they can get together now. Here’s how to assess the risks.
2021-02-08 10:00:00 CIO Journal Wendy’s CIO Aims to Keep Pandemic-Fueled Digital Efforts on the Menu The popularity of digital services built around contactless food purchases has yielded a stockpile of customer data, says Kevin Vasconi
2021-02-08 09:44:00 World Israel’s Netanyahu Formally Pleads Not Guilty as Corruption Trial Resumes Prime minister also faces the country’s fourth election in two years on March 23
2021-02-08 09:11:00 Markets Tesla, Bitcoin, Palantir, GameStop: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today Recent strong earnings reports and hopes for new stimulus are lifting investors’ spirits
2021-02-08 09:07:00 Markets Democrats Are Divided Over Biden’s Coming Pick of a Top Bank Regulator Obama alum Michael Barr is the leading contender, but some progressives favor Mehrsa Baradaran, an Iranian-born law professor
2021-02-08 09:05:00 Politics Impeachment Trial Puts Trump Back on Center Stage for GOP Senate Republicans face another public test of loyalty to the former president, with their base voters watching closely
2021-02-08 09:02:00 Politics Biden’s Bipartisan Hopes Need Not Die Now Stimulus debate risks setting tone of partisanship, though shared priorities and the needs of working-class Republicans offer hope
2021-02-08 09:00:00 Politics Biden’s Covid-19 Vaccination Aims: Speeding the Rollout and Addressing Racial Disparities Administration wants states to help Black and Latino Americans hit hardest by pandemic, but new variants and strained resources pose challenges
2021-02-08 08:41:00 Business Tesla Buys $1.5 Billion in Bitcoin Elon Musk’s company says it may start accepting the cryptocurrency as a payment method for its products, sending the price of bitcoin soaring
2021-02-08 08:22:00 Life & Arts Tom Brady Is Amazing. But How About That Tampa Bay Defense? A football legend adds perhaps his most impressive chapter, with a debt to his teammates on the other side of the line
2021-02-08 08:00:00 Business Chrysler, Fiat Dealers Want New Boss to Fix Ailing Brands or Consider Cuts Fiat Chrysler, which merged last month to create Stellantis, has for years operated seven automotive brands in the U.S., more than rivals
2021-02-08 07:57:00 National Security Capitol Riot Warnings Weren’t Acted On as System Failed The federal security apparatus retooled after 9/11 fielded intelligence on the Jan. 6 rally but didn’t mobilize to prevent the violence
2021-02-08 07:56:00 Markets SoftBank’s Vision is Clearest When Markets are Rising The tech stock frenzy has lifted many of SoftBank’s investments, but a market reversal would hit the company hard
2021-02-08 07:55:00 Business Tesla Summoned by Chinese Regulators on Quality Issues Regulators say electric car maker must abide by Chinese laws and regulations as consumers complain about quality problems
2021-02-08 07:50:00 Markets WordPress VIP Buying Content Analytics Firm Parse.ly Deal is parent company Automattic’s largest by cost and revenue; terms not disclosed
2021-02-08 07:30:00 Cargill Places Bet on Probiotics Startup Evolve BioSystems Evolve produces a probiotic designed to improve the gut health of infants
2021-02-08 07:15:00 Life & Arts How Tom Brady Lasted Long Enough to Win a Seventh Super Bowl at 43 The NFL began changing its rules to protect quarterbacks at the very start of his career. It helped him survive to win another Super Bowl on Sunday—with no end in sight.
2021-02-08 07:05:00 Business China’s Car Sales Rose 25% in January It was the strongest growth since September 2016
2021-02-08 07:00:00 Business Amazon Warehouse Workers Set to Vote on Unionizing: What We Know Alabama employees will vote on whether to form first union for hourly Amazon workers
2021-02-08 07:00:00 Markets Exxon’s Well-Timed Hop Onto Carbon-Capture Bandwagon U.S. energy companies are getting into carbon capture in time to help their reputations and their bottom lines
2021-02-08 07:00:00 Business Myanmar’s Garment Factories Suffer One-Two Punch of Covid and Coup Businesses exporting clothes for Western consumers say the industry will sink if trade preferences end or sanctions return
2021-02-08 06:58:00 Seadrill Subsidiaries File for Chapter 11 The oil-rig operator said cases were filed as a protective measure to support its financial restructuring
2021-02-08 06:08:00 Markets The Biden Stimulus vs. the Bond Market Some economists think a $1.9 trillion stimulus package could overheat the economy, but the bond market seems to disagree
2021-02-08 05:32:00 CFO Journal ESG Metrics Help CFOs Attract New Investors, Reduce Costs More finance chiefs talk about sustainability on earnings calls, provide disclosures
2021-02-08 05:30:00 Markets Robinhood’s GameStop Debacle Spurs Calls to Modernize Stock Clearing Nearly $1.7 trillion of securities trades are processed each day by Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.
2021-02-08 05:30:00 Virginia Lawmakers Poised to Pass New Rules for Internet Privacy Multiple U.S. states could green light new data-protection laws this year
2021-02-08 05:30:00 Markets Flood of Cash Pushes Borrowing Costs to Unusual Lows in Europe Some companies can now borrow at lower rates than those set by the European Central Bank
2021-02-08 05:30:00 Business Reddit CEO Backs WallStreetBets Amid Calls for Stiffer Moderation Chief of the social network whose users sparked GameStop stock-trading frenzy expresses confidence in its user-reliant model for policing speech
2021-02-08 05:30:00 New York Lawmakers Float Crackdown on Hedge Funds’ Sovereign-Debt Tactics The proposed legislation would leverage New York’s financial might to crack down on investment firms that resist sovereign-debt restructurings
2021-02-08 05:30:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Wirecard Red Flags Should Have Prompted Earlier Response, Former Executive Says Upon joining Wirecard, James Freis discovered that the fintech company’s problems were larger than even its harshest outside critics might have imagined
2021-02-08 05:30:00 Derby’s Take: The Fed and Economists Wrestle With Fate of Small Businesses
2021-02-08 05:30:00 Politics Fight Over Voting Rules Revs Up in Georgia Republicans’ new bills would add requirements or restrictions to mail-in voting in wake of presidential, Senate defeats
2021-02-08 05:30:00 Markets HNA Group’s Financial Maneuvers Powered Its Rise—and Caused Its Downfall The findings of a working group are shedding some light on the unorthodox ways that money was moved around within the conglomerate
2021-02-08 05:29:00 Markets GameStop Mania Was the Wrong Way to ‘Democratize’ Finance Making financial markets accessible is about ensuring low costs for savers. Allowing anyone to trade complex products could undermine that goal.
2021-02-08 04:47:00 Markets Stock Futures Rise, Putting S&P 500 on Course for New Record U.S. stock futures advance, suggesting the S&P 500 will climb further after notching its second consecutive record high
2021-02-08 04:21:00 Tech SoftBank Turns $11 Billion Profit, Helped by DoorDash Japanese tech investor rides the boom in valuations toward end of 2020
2021-02-08 03:44:00 World China Charges Journalist With Sending State Secrets Overseas Australian journalist Cheng Lei has been held in China since Aug. 13 and diplomats have raised concerns about her detention
2021-02-07 22:12:00 Life & Arts The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Tom Brady Win the Super Bowl Brady was the most valuable player and won his seventh NFL championship in a 31-9 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs
2021-02-07 21:18:00 Business Apple’s Electric-Vehicle Talks With Hyundai Break Down Tech giant began seeking potential automotive partners late last year
2021-02-07 20:00:00 Life & Arts The New Rules for Night Owl Workers A year of quarantine has meant more flexibility for the people at their best late in the day, but working nontraditional hours requires some negotiation with team members
2021-02-07 19:00:00 U.S. Battle Over Upstate Congressional Seat Shows New York’s Election Problems A court-supervised canvass revealed several irregularities in the Oneida County process
2021-02-07 18:23:00 World George Shultz, Secretary of State Under Reagan, Dies at 100 Republican-establishment figure guided U.S. diplomacy to help bring about end of the Cold War
2021-02-07 17:20:00 Hedge Funds Elliott Management Explores Raising a SPAC The hedge fund is looking to raise more than $1 billion for the vehicle
2021-02-07 16:56:00 Opinion Everybody Wants Muni Paper If you enjoyed Detroit debt, you’ll love Chicago schools bonds.
2021-02-07 16:53:00 U.S. Chicago, San Francisco Reach Tentative Deals With Teachers Unions on Reopening Schools Chicago union says members still have to approve plan; San Francisco Board of Education expected to vote on the deal Feb. 16
2021-02-07 16:53:00 Opinion Biden Goes Party Line on $1.9 Trillion Democrats define bipartisanship as Pelosi agreeing with Schumer.
2021-02-07 16:51:00 Opinion The Supreme Court Steps Up Again The Justices partially enjoin California’s limits on religious services.
2021-02-07 16:38:00 Politics Senate Democrats See Short Trump Trial Amid Covid-19 Stimulus Push Key details of the former president’s impeachment and of a $1.9-trillion relief bill are still being completed by new Democratic majority
2021-02-07 16:27:00 Life & Arts Super Bowl 2021 Viewer’s Guide: Start Time, How to Watch The Super Bowl starts at the same time as every year: 6:30 p.m.
2021-02-07 16:25:00 Opinion George Pratt Shultz As Secretary of State, he helped Reagan end the Cold War by winning it.
2021-02-07 16:21:00 Opinion We Don’t Need Another Patriot Act New law-enforcement powers would inevitably be turned against minorities and progressive dissenters.
2021-02-07 16:19:00 Opinion The Wisdom of George Shultz, 1920-2021 Excerpts of the former secretary of state’s contributions to the Journal editorial pages.
2021-02-07 16:18:00 Opinion What to Do When There’s a Covid-19 Vaccine Glut Supply is ramping up, but many Americans are reluctant to get the shot and need to be persuaded.
2021-02-07 16:16:00 Opinion Biden’s Troubling Latin Agenda Funding for political activism and abortion won’t create jobs in the region.
2021-02-07 16:14:00 Opinion See America With an RV, Not Twitter My son and I found kindness alive and well—and offline.
2021-02-07 16:13:00 Books ‘Kill Switch’ Review: When 51 Votes Aren’t Enough Harry Reid made frequent use of the filibuster when he led the Senate. A former Reid staffer is shocked that GOP leaders have done the same.
2021-02-07 16:02:00 World Rollout of AstraZeneca Covid-19 Vaccine Halted in South Africa After Study Small clinical trial found that it doesn’t appear to protect recipients against mild and moderate illness from a fast-spreading new strain of the coronavirus
2021-02-07 15:00:00 Economy Economy Week Ahead: Inflation, Unemployment and GDP Data from China expected to tell two different stories
2021-02-07 14:08:00 Politics Biden Won’t Lift Iran Sanctions to Bring Tehran Back to Negotiating Table Iran must stop enriching uranium before sanctions will be lifted, president says in CBS News interview
2021-02-07 13:56:00 Opinion Mediocrity Is Now Mandatory From stimulus to school admissions, leaders act as if ease is the only worthy goal.
2021-02-07 13:55:00 Opinion The Constitution Doesn’t Bar Trump’s Impeachment Trial Removal from office is best understood as akin to a ‘mandatory minimum’ sentence for a crime.
2021-02-07 13:40:00 Opinion Unity and Vision Elude the Fractured GOP Rep. Liz Cheney represents her “political brand” rather than her constituents.
2021-02-07 13:39:00 Opinion Long Bonds Won’t Help Underfunded Plans Under current market conditions 50-year Treasuries are no panacea.
2021-02-07 13:38:00 Opinion Biden Puts Democratic Unions Ahead of Children President Biden is in thrall to the powerful teachers’ unions which have adamantly opposed all efforts at reform.
2021-02-07 12:26:00 World Indian Glacier in Himalayan Valley Crumbles, Causing Flash Flooding More than 150 people are missing, and at least 14 killed, after surge of water triggers avalanches and knocks over buildings
2021-02-07 12:01:00 CMO Today Jeep Super Bowl Ad Enlists Bruce Springsteen to Unite America Auto brand stands out as most advertisers will mostly avoid mentioning political divisions
2021-02-07 12:00:00 Life & Arts Reconnect With the Work Friends You Miss Some people haven’t seen the co-workers they care about in person in close to a year—here’s how to get your office BFF back in your orbit
2021-02-07 11:00:00 Politics Jamie Raskin Leads Democrats in Trump’s Second Impeachment Trial As lead manager, Maryland congressman seeks to win over GOP senators on incitement charge against former president
2021-02-07 10:36:00 CMO Today Super Bowl 2021 Commercials: See the Ads Released So Far Brands try to transport viewers to a world without Covid-19
2021-02-07 10:32:00 Arts From Amanda Gorman to The Weeknd, a 2021 Super Bowl Spectacle Today’s game features blockbuster performers, including The Weeknd, H.E.R., Eric Church and Jazmine Sullivan. And to signify the challenges of the past year, youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman will recite a tribute to everyday heroes.
2021-02-07 10:00:00 Business Rough Landing Expected for the Glut of New Small-Rocket Makers Increased use of compact satellites by companies and military isn’t seen supporting the current number of smaller launchers
2021-02-07 10:00:00 Economy China’s Economy Isn’t Out of the Woods, Despite a Strong 2020 Many see risks if Covid-19 proves hard to contain or consumer confidence doesn’t improve
2021-02-07 10:00:00 Life & Arts Can You Count On Your Employer to Help You Get the Covid-19 Vaccine? Employers may offer transportation or other incentives, but getting actual shots to workers remains unlikely—for now
2021-02-07 09:00:00 Tech AppleCare and Other Phone Protection Plans: Who Should—and Shouldn’t—Buy Them When it comes to buying phone accident coverage, consider the probabilities, not the consequences
2021-02-07 09:00:00 Markets Silver Billionaire Thomas Kaplan Welcomes Recent Trading Frenzy His investment company, Electrum Group, controls mines that are sitting on about one billion ounces of the precious metal
2021-02-07 08:53:00 Economy Covid-19’s Hit to State and Local Revenues Is Smaller Than Many Feared But many face higher-than-expected costs from fighting the coronavirus, with widely varying impacts
2021-02-07 08:00:00 U.S. As Biden Decides What to Do With Trump’s Border Wall, Landowners Are in Limbo President Biden promised to halt construction of the border wall. But landowners fighting eminent domain don’t know the status of their land.
2021-02-07 08:00:00 Business Slow Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout, New Variants Shift Some Business Plans Some executives see recovery in travel, shopping by spring; others don’t expect pickup until later this year or 2022
2021-02-07 08:00:00 CMO Today Super Bowl Ads Go for Comedic Catharsis Tuning into the nation’s emotional exhaustion, marketers look to brighten spirits ground down by the pandemic
2021-02-07 07:44:00 World Navalny Movement Scraps Protests as It Digs In for Long Haul Following mass arrests and police violence, the opposition in Russia shifts focus from the streets to the ballot box
2021-02-07 05:30:00 World As Vaccines Raise Hope, Cold Reality Dawns: Covid-19 Is Likely Here to Stay Ease of transmission, new strains, limits of vaccination programs all mean Covid-19 will be around for years—and a big business
2021-02-07 05:30:00 Markets Tightening Oil Supplies Inject New Momentum Into Price Rally Signs of strength under the surface of the energy market suggest further gains for crude prices, some investors and analysts say
2021-02-07 05:30:00 Business Clawbacks Are Hard, So Companies Try Postponing Pay Instead Bristol-Myers Squibb is requiring executives to hold three-quarters of their equity grants for at least a year after they vest
2021-02-07 05:30:00 Markets GameStop Frenzy Is Tough Call for Regulators Focused on Transparency Little imperative to act if no market manipulation—and little political will to rein in small investors
2021-02-07 04:23:00 World Tens of Thousands Protest in Myanmar as Fears of Life Under Military Rule Return Since last week’s coup, many activists and civilian leaders have been detained or are in hiding
2021-02-06 17:37:00 Politics Liz Cheney Censured by Wyoming’s Republican Party Third-ranking member of the House’s GOP leadership was cited for voting to impeach President Trump
2021-02-06 12:44:00 World Robert Altman, Founder of Videogame Maker ZeniMax, Dies at Age 73 Lawyer, acquitted of charges in BCCI scandal, built an entertainment-software firm and sold it to Microsoft for $7.5 billion
2021-02-06 12:01:00 Life & Arts Giving Up Alcohol in the Era of Covid-19 Drinking is on the rise as a response to stress, but a growing number of people are choosing to give up alcohol before it becomes a problem
2021-02-06 12:00:00 Tech Amazon’s New CEO Can Either Help Workers and Sellers—or Automate Them Away One secret of Amazon’s ability to grow rapidly: software and algorithms that manage its millions of employees and marketplace sellers—technologies Andy Jassy knows well
2021-02-06 12:00:00 Tech How Big Tech Got Even Bigger Technology giants such as Alphabet, Amazon and Apple are more dominant than a year ago thanks to a greater reliance on their services during the pandemic. The forces propelling them to new heights are expected to outlast Covid-19.
2021-02-06 12:00:00 Personal Board of Directors How Adobe’s CEO Designed a Lasting Image in Silicon Valley The top executive of the photo-editing software maker relies on mentors forged through years of relationships for help in navigating everything from the pandemic to sensitive political issues
2021-02-06 09:00:00 Business Everyone Wants Sushi to Go, and It’s Saving Some Restaurants Eateries and grocers are selling more takeaway sushi during the pandemic, while supermarkets rush to train chefs
2021-02-06 09:00:00 Tech Violent Videogames Aren’t Ruining Your Kids—but It’s Good to Discuss Them Long-term study addresses the nuanced effects of playing shooter-style videogames on children’s mental health
2021-02-06 08:15:00 World China Approves Sinovac Vaccine for Broad Use Against Covid-19 Regulators give CoronaVac green light for mass inoculation, making it the second coronavirus shot in China to get provisional approval
2021-02-06 08:00:00 World Penguins Spared After Mammoth Iceberg Splits Into Smaller Pieces Scientists had feared for wildlife as the iceberg headed for remote South Georgia Island in the South Atlantic
2021-02-06 08:00:00 Life & Arts Forget Wedding Dresses. Divorce Style Has Arrived The recent hubbub over Mary-Kate Olsen’s recent Zoom-divorce outfit recalls the courtroom drama of Marilyn Monroe and Zsa Zsa Gabor. Non-celebrities are upping the glamour quotient on their own divorce style, too.
2021-02-06 08:00:00 Markets Some Young Americans Fight Economic Unease by Using Stimulus Checks to Pay Down Debt With fewer places to spend and the labor market still weak, younger adults are treating the payments carefully
2021-02-06 07:00:00 Art Review ‘Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented’ Review: Modernists of the World, Unite! A MoMA exhibit explores the ways European art movements of the 1920s and ‘30s responded to and furthered the social and political upheaval of the time.
2021-02-06 07:00:00 World In Covid-Era Travel Scam, Fraudsters Offer Fake Test Results Dozens have been arrested over falsified coronavirus-test certificates, as authorities grapple with verification
2021-02-06 05:30:00 Markets Elon Musk’s Dogecoin Tweeting Has Believers Barking for More Cryptocurrency that started in 2013 as a joke is suddenly worth a total of more than $6 billion
2021-02-06 05:30:00 Markets Is GameStop a Bubble? History’s Spectacular Crashes, From Tulips to Beanie Babies. What goes up must come down. Bubbles have boosted—and burned—investors for centuries.
2021-02-06 05:30:00 Politics Want a Bigger Stimulus Check? Consider Filing Your Tax Return Early The IRS likely will deliver payments based on either 2019 or 2020 income, whichever is on file when it sends out the money
2021-02-06 04:28:00 World Myanmar Protesters Gather to Oppose Military Coup Police in riot gear were deployed in Yangon and water cannons were present as authorities shut down internet access in the country
2021-02-06 03:11:00 Politics Supreme Court Hands California Churches Partial Relief From Covid-19 Restrictions Churches argued they should be classified alongside businesses where capacity is capped at 25%
2021-02-05 21:20:00 Business Fox Business Cancels Lou Dobbs’s Show After Anchor Was Named in Voting-Machine Lawsuit ‘Lou Dobbs Tonight’ was among the network’s highest-rated shows
2021-02-05 21:19:00 Politics Biden Withdraws From Trump’s Agreement to Send Asylum Seekers to Guatemala The Trump administration said asylum seekers should ask for protection from countries they crossed before reaching the U.S. border
2021-02-05 19:37:00 Markets Amazon.com, Chevron, Peloton: Stocks That Defined the Week Here are seven major companies whose stocks moved on the news cycle
2021-02-05 19:27:00 Opinion San Francisco’s Race Games The school board is set to eliminate merit exams for admission to an acclaimed school.
2021-02-05 19:21:00 Politics Biden Says Trump Shouldn’t Get Intelligence Briefings Due to ‘Erratic Behavior’ Biden made remarks about former president in CBS interview set to air on Sunday
2021-02-05 19:11:00 Politics New York Republican Claudia Tenney Should Be Certified Winner of House Race, Judge Rules Upstate district seat is last uncalled congressional contest of November election
2021-02-05 19:03:00 Politics U.S. Chamber Head Thomas Donohue to Step Down Suzanne Clark to be president and chief executive of business lobby
2021-02-05 19:02:00 U.S. Former TPG Executive William McGlashan Jr. to Plead Guilty in College Admissions Case McGlashan will admit to involvement in testing scheme, but not athletic bribery conspiracy; plea deal calls for three months in prison
2021-02-05 18:51:00 World Iran U.N. Inspectors Find Radioactive Traces, Raising Fresh Concerns Materials were found at sites where Iran had blocked inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency
2021-02-05 18:47:00 Politics Biden Pitches Covid-19 Relief Plan to Voters as Hopes for GOP Support Fade White House touts polling data showing broad popularity for president’s plan as evidence that his agenda has bipartisan backing
2021-02-05 18:47:00 Business High-Profile New York Times Staffers Depart Amid Newsroom Controversy Health reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr. and audio producer Andy Mills are leaving over allegations of improper conduct
2021-02-05 18:42:00 Opinion Wrong Stimulus, Wrong Time Biden wants twice the spending of 2009, though the economy is far stronger now.
2021-02-05 18:40:00 Opinion Woke Capital’s Political Warning Republican support for big business craters in a new Gallup poll.
2021-02-05 18:38:00 Opinion School Choice Momentum in the States Republicans push education bills to give parents options.
2021-02-05 17:57:00 World U.S. Backs Nigeria’s Former Finance Minister for Next WTO Director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala wins Biden administration’s support after South Korean trade minister bows out
2021-02-05 17:30:00 Books ‘We Own This City’ Review: Wolves Among the Flock A scandal within Baltimore’s police culture revealed a cancer of criminal activity. Could it be rooted out?
2021-02-05 17:20:00 Opinion Food Choice and Personal and Global Health Where Gary Taubes gets it wrong is his lack of regard for the nutritional value of whole grains, fruits and vegetables.
2021-02-05 17:20:00 Opinion The Long and Short of the GameStop Bubble The recent trading in GameStop stock is a remarkable example of the power of the internet and electronic trading to democratize capital markets.
2021-02-05 17:19:00 Opinion Taiwan Could Defend Itself More Effectively Unlike today’s forces whose major weapons and headquarters are highly vulnerable to missile attack, small units armed with man-portable missiles distributed throughout the island would survive to outnumber (by far) the maximum total of potential invaders.
2021-02-05 17:16:00 Risk & Compliance Journal U.K. Court Limits Corporate Watchdog’s Cross-Border Powers The ruling restricts the Serious Fraud Office’s ability to compel foreign companies to disclose documents held abroad
2021-02-05 17:13:00 World U.K. Takes Aim at Alleged Chinese Espionage London has quietly expelled three suspected Chinese spies who posed as journalists
2021-02-05 17:05:00 CIO Journal Former CIOs Discuss What It Takes to Be a Startup CEO Former IT chiefs from Tesla, MetLife, Facebook and Cisco are now leading business software startups
2021-02-05 16:58:00 Opinion The Virus Lessons We’re Getting Wrong It’s crucial to distinguish real failures from those caused by chasing political phantoms.
2021-02-05 16:58:00 Opinion Covid Makes Doctorates Harder to Get—and That’s Good For decades, universities have taken advantage of graduates with humanities Ph.D.s and dim prospects.
2021-02-05 16:57:00 Opinion Democrats in Albany Grab the Redistricting Pen Cuomo blocks funding for a constitutionally required, bipartisan commission to draw fairer lines.
2021-02-05 16:48:00 World Russia to Expel Diplomats in Dispute Over Alexei Navalny Moscow says envoys from Sweden, Poland and Germany took part in unlawful rallies in support of the jailed opposition politician last month; Berlin threatens retaliation
2021-02-05 16:13:00 Masterpiece A Burial Beneath Beauty An outsize Moses dominates the scene in Michelangelo’s Tomb of Pope Julius II.
2021-02-05 16:06:00 Business Amazon Union Election to Proceed as Labor Board Denies Delay Request Election at Alabama warehouse set to be completed by late March
2021-02-05 15:27:00 Real Estate Does Anyone Make Cute Dog Beds? It took some effort but we found seven dog beds that won’t wreck your carefully planned décor—from beachy baskets to elegant perches based on 19th-century seats
2021-02-05 15:13:00 Opinion How Trump Taxed the Rich A reality check regarding those infamous one-percenters.
2021-02-05 15:11:00 Politics House Approves Budget Resolution Setting Stage for Covid-19 Relief Package President Biden met with top House Democrats to discuss $1.9 trillion aid plan
2021-02-05 15:08:00 Screen Time What to Watch: The Super Bowl, Plus 21 More Series and Movies to Stream This Weekend Studio Ghibli’s ‘Earwig and the Witch’ comes to HBO Max, Justin Timberlake’s ‘Palmer’ streams on AppleTV+ and how to stream some Golden Globe nominees
2021-02-05 14:55:00 Finance SoftBank-Backed Greensill Delays Fundraising The supply-chain finance company says it needs money to expand, but it has also faced several client defaults
2021-02-05 14:29:00 Business GameStop Trader ‘Roaring Kitty’ and Former Employer May Face Federal Regulatory Scrutiny Keith Gill’s videos and MassMutual’s supervision are at issue, lawyers say
2021-02-05 14:03:00 Logistics Report Logistics Hiring Contracted to Start the Year Parcel, warehousing companies cut payrolls following strong growth driven by e-commerce demand in 2020
2021-02-05 13:59:00 Life & Arts Tools of the Spy Game An auction of items from the KGB Espionage Museum reveals the ingenuity and oppression of the Soviet secret police.
2021-02-05 13:48:00 Politics Biden’s Minimum-Wage Proposal: When Would It Reach $15 an Hour? The increase would take place over a number of years, though the proposal faces resistance and its fate is uncertain
2021-02-05 13:34:00 U.S. Virginia Moves to Abolish Death Penalty Gov. Ralph Northam says he will sign bill making Virginia 23rd state and first in South to ban capital punishment
2021-02-05 13:29:00 Politics Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Committee Removal Silences Her Constituents, But Frees Up Her Time Lawmakers voted to remove Georgia Republican of assignments over past contentious comments
2021-02-05 13:27:00 Real Estate The Most—and Least—Soothing Paint Colors, According to Interior Design Pros Designers choose more colors for walls in a year than you will in a lifetime. So we asked them: Which hues calm us and which stress us out?
2021-02-05 13:26:00 Opinion ‘Majority Minority’ America? Don’t Bet on It How a Census Bureau error led Democrats to assume they were on the right side of inexorable demographic trends.
2021-02-05 13:26:00 Opinion Biden Tests the Adage ‘The Customer Is Always Right’ I support him, my restaurant has served him, but his minimum-wage proposal would put me out of business.
2021-02-05 13:20:00 Business FanDuel’s CEO on Why It Doesn’t Matter if the Super Bowl Makes Money Matt King discusses the big game, growing staff during a pandemic and when the sportsbook will return workers to the office
2021-02-05 12:54:00 World Libya Forms Transitional Unity Government After Years Of Conflict Delegates at a U.N.-organized summit chose a businessman to serve as the North African country’s prime minister
2021-02-05 12:48:00 Life & Arts Chess Is a Netflix Star. How About Other Games? After ‘The Queen’s Gambit,’ TV could bet on a show about parcheesi—or dominoes.
2021-02-05 12:41:00 Economy Temporary Jobs Propped Up January Hiring Gains in nonpermanent employment and public schools offset losses in restaurant and entertainment sectors
2021-02-05 12:37:00 Life & Arts Tips on Going Freelance During the Covid-19 Pandemic As coronavirus accelerates moves to contract, gig and ‘on-demand’ work, here’s advice if you’re considering becoming your own boss
2021-02-05 12:28:00 Markets Teens Are Gambling Their Savings on GameStop Stock. Their Parents Are Worried. The day-trading frenzy firing up stocks like GameStop benefits from capital provided by a growing number of teen investors. ‘You have to be willing to lose it all.’
2021-02-05 12:20:00 Tech Kia Seeks Partners to Build Apple Car in Georgia South Korean auto maker’s proposal would involve a multibillion-dollar investment
2021-02-05 11:55:00 Markets The Job Market Stays Stalled Declines in retail and restaurant employment last month show a labor market still tightly in Covid-19’s grip
2021-02-05 11:54:00 Markets Cathie Wood Has Wall Street’s Hottest Hand. Maybe Too Hot. ARK Investment’s money under management grew more than fivefold from March to the end of last year. But when funds get too big, too fast, they often can’t sustain their performance.
2021-02-05 11:50:00 Life & Arts Vaccine Expert Paul Offit Believes Science Will Win in the End The pediatrician and infectious-disease specialist is enthusiastic about the ‘phenomenal effectiveness’ of the shots that can prevent Covid-19
2021-02-05 11:47:00 Business What CEOs Are Saying About Covid-19, Leadership and More The leaders of Microsoft, Exxon Mobil and UPS, among others, describe how business is evolving during the coronavirus pandemic
2021-02-05 11:15:00 Books ‘Calhoun’ Review: The Nullifier and His Legacy A notorious defender of slavery was led to think seriously about how to protect minority rights.
2021-02-05 11:08:00 Books The Joy of Trollope In his fictional mirror of Victorian England, Anthony Trollope created a world it would take a lifetime to fully explore.
2021-02-05 11:07:00 Business The GameStop Dilemma: What to Do if Day Traders Target Your Company Stock GameStop and other companies briefly saw their share prices surge as Reddit-inspired buyers created a short squeeze. For executives, taking advantage of the situation is more complicated than it appears.
2021-02-05 11:03:00 Books ‘A Swim in a Pond in the Rain’ Review: From Russia With Love A visit with four masters of short fiction is a lesson in artistry and vision.
2021-02-05 11:01:00 Tech Unlocking iPhones While Wearing a Face Mask: Now Easier, If You Have iOS 14.5—and an Apple Watch An update to iOS 14.5 recognizes when you’re wearing a mask, then uses the Apple Watch to authenticate you
2021-02-05 11:00:00 Markets The Risks and Rewards of Diversifying Your Bond Funds With interest rates so low, some advisers think investors have too much to lose by focusing solely on bond index funds
2021-02-05 10:59:00 World Hong Kong Security Law: How Beijing Is Cracking Down City’s government has used new powers to arrest dozens of opposition figures, eject pro-democracy lawmakers and stifle dissent
2021-02-05 10:59:00 Markets Venmo’s Debt-Collection Practices Probed by CFPB The payment app’s tactics—including threatening to send debt collectors after customers who are scam victims—have previously come under scrutiny
2021-02-05 10:54:00 Life & Arts Roast Chicken No single trick delivers the crisp skin and juicy meat we covet. An experienced roaster shares her own, holistic approach, and a recipe so simple and reliable you’ll want to use it weekly.
2021-02-05 10:52:00 Life & Arts What’s the Best Way to Roast Chicken? No single trick delivers the crisp skin and juicy meat we covet. An experienced roaster shares her own, holistic approach, and a recipe so simple and reliable you’ll want to use it weekly.
2021-02-05 10:50:00 Books Science Fiction: ‘The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry’ Review Working as a bodyguard with a half-troll and some other odd characters sounds risky. But even a witch has bills to pay.
2021-02-05 10:43:00 Books Fiction: ‘The Hare’ Review A tale of surrender, survival and fate from Melanie Finn.
2021-02-05 10:42:00 Books ‘The York Patrol’ Review: Immortal Doughboy Alvin York’s feats on the battlefield were obscured by movies and mythology, but his heroism under fire was the real thing.
2021-02-05 10:27:00 Books ‘No One Is Talking About This’ Review: Life in the Slipstream From the ‘Poet Laureate of Twitter,’ a journey from irony to heartbreak.
2021-02-05 10:25:00 Books Five Best: On Tyranny Selected by the author, most recently, of ‘This Is the Voice.’
2021-02-05 10:20:00 Books Children’s Books: ‘The Midnight Fair’ Review The birds and the beasts take their turn at the carnival after dark.
2021-02-05 09:41:00 Real Estate What Are the Best Bathroom Rugs? Chic, virtually indestructible, much more practical than you’d think—vintage wool rugs are interior designers’ go-to bathroom rugs
2021-02-05 09:24:00 Business LVMH Tells Tiffany Staff to Return to Office Two Days a Week Luxury giant wants New York City employees in office starting March 1 as it starts to integrate U.S. jeweler
2021-02-05 09:19:00 Business Bill Gates Joins Private-Equity Firms in $4.7 Billion Deal for Private-Jet Company Private-jet travel is booming amid travel restrictions and flight groundings for commercial airlines
2021-02-05 09:09:00 World South Africa Covid-19 Strain: What We Know About the New Variant Researchers warn that the variant, now detected in the U.S., may spread faster and could reduce the efficacy of vaccines
2021-02-05 08:50:00 Economy U.S. Employers Added 49,000 Jobs in January Growth returned to the labor market after one-month dip; unemployment rate fell to 6.3%
2021-02-05 08:46:00 Life & Arts What Is a Capsule Wardrobe and How Can I Get One? Pared-back collections of clothes and accessories are simplifying women’s lives and eliminating daily ‘what to wear?’ stress. Here, how to build your own.
2021-02-05 08:45:00 Economy U.S. Trade Deficit Narrowed in December as Exports Outpaced Imports Exports from the U.S. rose 3.4% from a month earlier to $190 billion
2021-02-05 08:36:00 Markets S&P 500 on Track for Best Week Since Early November Stock futures edged higher, suggesting that the market will end the week higher on investors’ anticipation of fresh stimulus spending and labor market’s recovery
2021-02-05 08:28:00 World Hong Kong Orders National Security Lessons for Elementary Students Education chief says it isn’t too early to teach children about national security, as bureau mandates patriotic education in kindergartens
2021-02-05 08:15:00 Business AstraZeneca Vaccine Effective Against U.K. Covid-19 Variant in Trial Study finds the vaccine’s efficacy against the U.K. variant is 75%
2021-02-05 08:01:00 Life & Arts Tom Brady vs. Patrick Mahomes: The Data Behind the NFL’s Greatest Quarterbacks Brady mastered the fundamentals of playing quarterback. Mahomes reinvented them. Now they’re squaring off in a Super Bowl that shows the evolution of football’s most important position.
2021-02-05 08:00:00 Markets Peloton’s Expensive Race Against Time Connected fitness company scrambling to improve deliveries as recovery from pandemic may alter its value proposition
2021-02-05 07:59:00 Business Boeing’s New Big Plane Is Its Big New Problem U.S. aerospace company last year booked $6.5 billion charge related to new 777X, citing Covid-19 pandemic and regulatory hurdles
2021-02-05 07:40:00 Markets Ford Becomes an Unlikely Tech Darling New Chief Executive Jim Farley wants to invest more aggressively in electric vehicles, but he still hasn’t fixed Ford’s combustion-engine business
2021-02-05 07:30:00 Markets Snap, Pinterest Battle for Investors’ Likes Both companies reported blockbuster fourth quarters but Snap’s guidance fails to inspire
2021-02-05 07:16:00 Markets Led by ‘Mr. SPAC,’ Credit Suisse Cashes In on Blank-Check Spree A boom in blank-check companies is reviving Credit Suisse’s ambitions on Wall Street
2021-02-05 07:02:00 Business Enthusiasm Fades for Covid-19 Antibody Treatments in South Korea ‘We are hoping the treatment will lighten the burden of hospitalizing patients with serious symptoms’
2021-02-05 07:00:00 Markets Amazon’s Retail Side Won’t Be a Side Hustle Elevation of cloud boss to CEO role won’t change dependence on core e-commerce business
2021-02-05 07:00:00 CMO Today Super Bowl LV: See the Ads Released So Far Brands try to transport viewers to a world without Covid-19
2021-02-05 07:00:00 CMO Today Super Bowl 2021 Commercials: See the Ads Released So Far Brands try to transport viewers to a world without Covid-19
2021-02-05 06:56:00 Tech China’s SMIC Says It’s Missing Out on the Chip Boom Due to U.S. Restrictions SMIC expects revenue growth to fall to single digits this year after a 17% jump in the last quarter
2021-02-05 06:36:00 Markets Chip Shortage Buoys SMIC, but Sanctions Could Still Bite U.S. tech war to dent the Chinese chip maker’s ambitions even as orders soar
2021-02-05 06:30:00 Markets Opendoor Needs to Show Its Work Investors’ love for Opendoor suggests it doesn’t matter if you win or lose in iBuying, but how you game the game
2021-02-05 06:00:00 Life & Arts The Australian Open Brings Back a Twist for 2021: Thousands of Tennis Fans More relaxed conditions for supporters have meant strict lockdowns for players
2021-02-05 05:54:00 Economy WTO Leadership Race Narrows to One After South Korean Candidate Exits Announcement by Seoul’s trade minister leaves only a former Nigerian finance minister who had previously received broad support
2021-02-05 05:30:00 Markets After the Covid Pandemic, a Surge in Demand for Meals, Entertainment and Vacations Americans usually rush out to buy things after an economic slump, but this time around there could be a surge in demand for services
2021-02-05 05:30:00 CFO Journal Merck CFO Brings Corporate Strategy Experience to CEO Role Robert Davis, who will start as chief executive July 1, has managed global support functions at Merck in addition to his responsibilities as finance chief
2021-02-05 05:30:00 Politics Amazon’s U.S. Tax Costs Jumped in 2020. It Likely Would Pay Even More Under Biden Plan. Tech giant cites boost in pretax profit as reason for higher tax expense
2021-02-05 05:30:00 Markets What Robinhood Traders Need to Know About Taxes If you’ve been buying or selling GameStop or other hot stocks, the IRS will be interested
2021-02-05 05:30:00 Politics Primary Challenges Proliferate Against Republicans Who Voted to Impeach Republican lawmakers who supported President Donald Trump’s second impeachment are attracting potential primary challengers for 2022
2021-02-05 03:10:00 Markets Alibaba Sells $5 Billion of Bonds Four-part deal by e-commerce giant founded by Jack Ma follows hefty bond sales in 2014 and 2017
2021-02-05 02:56:00 Markets BNP Paribas Posts Smaller-Than-Expected Drop in Profit Amid Pandemic France’s biggest bank benefited from a trading boom amid market volatility
2021-02-04 20:34:00 Politics FDA Plans Speedy Review of Possible Covid-19 Boosters Acting commissioner says agency will publish guidelines over the next few weeks, backs public transparency
2021-02-04 20:30:00 Opinion ‘The Niceties’ Review: No Time for Pleasantries In Eleanor Burgess’s play, a routine meeting between a Black college student and her baby-boomer professor turns into a debate about race in America.
2021-02-04 20:15:00 Business Johnson & Johnson Asks U.S. Regulators for Emergency Approval of Its Covid-19 Vaccine The potential third vaccine could jump-start a slower-than-expected vaccination rollout
2021-02-04 20:13:00 Business News Corp Posts Most Profitable Quarter Since 2013 HarperCollins, Wall Street Journal parent Dow Jones report strong growth
2021-02-04 19:27:00 Markets Regulators Say Market Infrastructure Was Resilient in GameStop Frenzy Treasury, SEC and other regulators discussed market functionality, recent trading practices in equity, commodity and related markets
2021-02-04 19:23:00 Opinion Liz Cheney and Marjorie Taylor Greene House Republicans fail to oblige the Democratic desire for GOP civil war.
2021-02-04 19:16:00 Politics DHS Delays Rule That Would Have Effectively Eliminated H-1B Visa Lottery Biden administration says it won’t have time to change system and apply Trump administration rule before visa registration begins in March
2021-02-04 18:41:00 Opinion Liz Cheney Wins One for Sanity But the Republican Party still has a lot of work to do to counter radicalism and conspiracy theories.
2021-02-04 18:39:00 Opinion How to Ration Vaccines Basing eligibility on age from now on is the scientific, and least political, method.
2021-02-04 18:37:00 Opinion Didn’t Vote? Here’s Your $20 Fine A Connecticut state Senator has a plan for mandatory voting.
2021-02-04 18:25:00 Opinion In the Mideast, Biden Returns to Abnormal He revives the Obama policy of strengthening America’s enemies and harming its friends.
2021-02-04 18:24:00 Opinion The Steelers Fan’s Super Bowl Dilemma There’s no good reason to root for either team. So try these dubious ones.
2021-02-04 18:23:00 Opinion Abraham’s Missing Child: Christians Jews and Muslims make peace, but this endangered minority lacks a regional voice.
2021-02-04 18:23:00 Opinion The GOP’s First 2021 Victory Ousting Liz Cheney would have reinforced the Democrats’ nasty caricature.
2021-02-04 18:22:00 Opinion The Best Company Name Is Under Where? Your child may live to be 100, but a firm can last for centuries.
2021-02-04 18:21:00 Books ‘Think Again’ Review: Moderately Confident Adam Grant of the Wharton School goads us to be humble in our convictions, curious about the alternatives—and open to discovery.
2021-02-04 18:07:00 U.S. Three N.J. Guards Charged With Misconduct in Connection With Attack at Women’s Prison Attorney General expects to file more criminal charges; Some 22 officers have been suspended
2021-02-04 17:52:00 Life & Arts ‘Blizzard’: A Mighty Blast—In the Past, Not Always of Snow In the 1830s, Davy Crockett used it to mean both a gunshot and a torrent of speech; even earlier, a similar word meant rain or lightning
2021-02-04 17:30:00 Business T-Mobile Warns Investors of More Costs Ahead as It Digests Sprint Cellphone carrier reports roughly flat fourth-quarter profit after expenses for integrating onetime rival
2021-02-04 17:27:00 Politics Biden Administration Weighs Forgiving Student Debt by Executive Action The president had previously questioned his authority to unilaterally write off Americans’ student loans
2021-02-04 17:12:00 Business Prudential Reports 27% Drop in Profit, Resumes Share Buybacks Insurer, which had suspended stock repurchases during the pandemic, swung to a loss for 2020 amid pandemic
2021-02-04 16:59:00 U.S. Giuliani Associate Faces SEC Lawsuit Lev Parnas accused of misleading investors in a fraud-insurance company
2021-02-04 16:57:00 Markets Bond Market Volatility Boosts Online Trading Platforms Average daily trading volume on Tradeweb’s online bond trading platform topped $1 trillion in January
2021-02-04 16:49:00 Business Electric Vehicles Make Up More Than a Third of Volvo’s Sales in Europe Backed by tax breaks, public support, EV sales in Europe surge past China, the longtime market leader
2021-02-04 16:48:00 Opinion First Amendment, Politics and Section 230 The First Amendment and Section 230 exist to create vibrant marketplaces for all kinds of expression. And both have done exactly that online and offline.
2021-02-04 16:47:00 Opinion Work, Capitalism and the Protestant Ethic The work of ordinary believers had a dignity of its own, and those in ordained offices should not be viewed as being on a higher plane than secular professions and family life.
2021-02-04 16:46:00 Opinion Jefferson Thought Religious Freedom Is a Natural Right Jefferson understood religious freedom as among those natural rights that governments are formed to secure, not to establish.
2021-02-04 16:42:00 Business Toxic Heavy Metals Found in Some Baby Food, Congressional Report Says House subcommittee Democrats call on FDA to require stricter standards for arsenic and lead levels
2021-02-04 16:39:00 Politics Trump Dismisses House Impeachment Managers’ Request That He Testify Former president faces charge in Senate trial that he incited an insurrection at Capitol last month
2021-02-04 16:35:00 Books Bestselling Books Week Ended January 30 With data from NPD BookScan
2021-02-04 16:33:00 Politics Who Could Receive a Third Stimulus Check? What Biden and the GOP Are Proposing Democrats are calling for broad distribution, while Republicans have proposed a more-targeted approach
2021-02-04 16:25:00 Film Review ‘Two of Us’ Review: The Urgency of a Great Love In France’s Oscar entry, Martine Chevallier and Barbara Sukowa play closeted lovers looking forward to a new life together.
2021-02-04 16:23:00 Television Review ‘Clarice’ Review: A Lion Among Lambs FBI Agent Clarice Starling returns in a new CBS series.
2021-02-04 16:22:00 Film Review ‘Little Fish’ Review: Forgetting the Way We Were A newlywed couple fears the worst in a pandemic that wipes people’s memories.
2021-02-04 16:21:00 Opinion ‘Doubt’ Review: Well-Cast Shadows A Tampa theater’s top-notch revival of John Patrick Shanley’s drama about a priest accused of sex abuse translates seamlessly to streaming.
2021-02-04 16:18:00 Film Review ‘Rams’ Review: Shear Desperation Two farmer brothers who haven’t spoken in 40 years must work together to save their sheep flocks in this Australian remake of the 2015 Icelandic original.
2021-02-04 16:15:00 Life & Arts Double Face Masks? N95? Protect Yourself Against New Covid-19 Variants With These Mask Upgrades The guidance around masks is changing. Here’s the latest that you need to know.
2021-02-04 16:13:00 Politics Hunter Biden to Release Memoir in April President Biden’s son has faced criticism from Republicans and scrutiny from federal investigators for his business dealings
2021-02-04 16:13:00 Business Snap, Pinterest Log Strong User Growth Expansion at social-media platforms mirrors surge across the industry during the pandemic
2021-02-04 16:12:00 Politics Biden Administration Postpones Lifting Penalties for Accidental Killing of Migratory Birds A measure approved in the final days of the Trump administration would have removed criminal penalties for killing migratory birds
2021-02-04 16:06:00 Life & Arts What’s the Best Cooking Oil? Extra-virgin olive oil...grapeseed oil...sesame oil? Depends on how you use it. For frying, sautéing, dressings and more, these bottles are beauties.
2021-02-04 16:03:00 Pro PE Legal Regulatory GPB Capital Faces Fraud Charges Over $1.7 Billion Ponzi-Like Scheme The FBI has arrested GPB’s founder and CEO, as well as two others allegedly involved
2021-02-04 16:00:00 Politics Biden Names Special Envoy to Yemen in Fresh Effort to End the War Approach departs from Trump administration, which largely supported Saudi-led effort against Iran-backed Houthi rebels
2021-02-04 15:49:00 CFO Journal McCormick CFO Ramps Up Advertising Spend After Pandemic Sales Boost The flavor company is relying more on cooking videos shot at home while placing fewer ads on traditional television commercials and in print
2021-02-04 15:30:00 Politics GOP Puts Minimum Wage, School Reopenings in Covid Aid Spotlight Republicans plan amendments to budget bill that would force Democrats to take possibly unpalatable votes
2021-02-04 15:13:00 Business Celebrities Land in the Boardroom. Here’s How Companies Make It Work. Ciara, Oprah, Shaq and Serena are among the celebrities companies are tapping as directors for their pop-culture expertise and as a marketing boost
2021-02-04 15:11:00 Business CNN President Jeff Zucker to Exit Cable Channel at End of 2021 Mr. Zucker agreed to stay at the helm until his current contract expires, ending months of uncertainty
2021-02-04 15:10:00 Life & Arts Where Can I Travel Internationally and Do I Need the Covid-19 Vaccine? Covid restrictions for international trips are more complicated than ever. Before you dust off your passport, a few words of caution
2021-02-04 15:00:00 Life & Arts How to Stop Sitting Down All Day A behavioral economist answers questions on activity breaks, getting feedback and emergency savings.
2021-02-04 14:55:00 U.S. Voting-Machine Company Smartmatic Sues Fox News Over Election Claims Lawsuit cites statements about presidential election made by anchors including Maria Bartiromo and Lou Dobbs
2021-02-04 14:36:00 Politics Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She Regrets QAnon Comments Freshman Republican lawmaker is set to be removed from committees in House vote
2021-02-04 14:27:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Brazil’s Recent Past a Challenge to Winning ESG Credibility Corruption, environmental disasters and deforestation worry some investors
2021-02-04 14:25:00 IPOs Chobani Eyes 2021 Initial Public Offering The Greek yogurt maker targets a valuation between $7 billion to $10 billion
2021-02-04 14:23:00 U.S. Border Patrol Releases More Migrants Into U.S. After Mexico Stops Taking Some Back Influx of families in recent weeks fills holding facilities that have limited capacity because of Covid-19 precautions
2021-02-04 14:20:00 Business Holidays Sales Slumped, but Some Retailers Predict a Snapback Fewer promotions and less inventory pushed up average prices at Coach and Ralph Lauren; Nordstrom expects a 25% revenue jump
2021-02-04 14:15:00 Markets Stone Point Capital, Insight Partners Agree to Buy CoreLogic Another suitor, CoStar, says it is studying options, including a new bid, a proxy fight or walking away
2021-02-04 14:15:00 Opinion The ‘Universal Vaccination’ Chimera Tools for stopping variants are limited, and like masks and distancing, vaccines are not a panacea.
2021-02-04 14:08:00 Opinion Rihanna Rallies to the Wrong Cause in India Farmers protest in defense of a dysfunctional system, and Modi has treated them relatively gently.
2021-02-04 13:55:00 Life & Arts Where Can I Take My Kids Over Spring Break? Planning a family vacation right now—while the Covid pandemic still lingers—might seem more stressful than it’s worth. To minimize the headaches, we’ve chosen five trips that are all based around outdoor activities.
2021-02-04 13:18:00 Finance Credit Suisse Was Alerted to Private Banker’s Misconduct Years Before Criminal Charges Regulatory report says some executives turned a blind eye to fraud. Credit Suisse says it revealed nothing incriminating against the bank.
2021-02-04 13:15:00 Business 23andMe to Go Public With Richard Branson-Backed SPAC British billionaire Richard Branson to invest in genomics company as part of listing
2021-02-04 13:02:00 Business Ford Cutting F-150 Pickup Production Due to Chip Shortage Both of Ford’s F-150 factories will cancel some shifts next week
2021-02-04 12:51:00 Opinion The Post-Covid Boom More evidence that 2021 is going to be a year of prosperity.
2021-02-04 12:48:00 Life & Arts What’s the Healthiest Drink? Antioxidants are all well and good. But sometimes the real benefit is in the making. This recipe for a warming mugful of lemon, ginger and turmeric is as satisfying to make as it is to drink.
2021-02-04 12:10:00 Business Hershey Says Strong Holiday Sales Presage Growth in 2021 Chocolate maker plans more advertising spending, seeking to retain market-share gains
2021-02-04 11:05:00 A-hed How to Make Sense of GameStop? The Internet Turns to Beer and Puppets The Reddit-fueled market frenzy has inspired a flurry of TikTok videos, memes and online explainers
2021-02-04 11:00:00 Media & Marketing Rolling Stone Launches Video Channel on Amazon’s Twitch ‘Rolling Stone on Twitch’ marks first attempt by mainstream publication to build presence on platform beloved by videogamers
2021-02-04 10:51:00 Business A Small West Virginia Newspaper Takes On Google and Facebook The Charleston Gazette-Mail’s owner has filed a lawsuit claiming the tech giants manipulate the digital-advertising market
2021-02-04 10:39:00 CFO Journal L Brands CFO to Retire After About 14 Years on the Job Stuart Burgdoerfer will step down from his role in August
2021-02-04 10:02:00 Business New York Times Added Record Number of Digital Subscribers in 2020 Publisher posts flat fourth-quarter revenue amid advertising declines
2021-02-04 09:57:00 Markets PayPal Should Have More Growth In-Store After a huge 2020 for digital spending PayPal has momentum in a new realm, in-store payments
2021-02-04 09:34:00 Politics Partisan Pressures Weigh Heavily as Senate Looks for Coronavirus Relief Deal Nearly all senators belong to the party that won their state’s presidential contest in November
2021-02-04 09:29:00 Markets Deutsche Bank Had a Good 2020. This Year Will Be Harder. Germany’s largest lender will likely face tougher operating conditions as well as higher investor expectations in 2021
2021-02-04 09:12:00 Politics Biden’s Plan for Reopening Schools Faces Challenges Republicans see political opportunity as teachers’ unions, which support the president, have pushed back on some reopening plans
2021-02-04 09:00:00 Tech Microsoft CEO Sees Pandemic Sparking New Wave of Employee-Focused Tech Company sees Viva software as way into growing market for clients looking to cater to employee life at work
2021-02-04 08:58:00 Politics Yellen Says ‘We Need to Act Big’ on Covid Relief Treasury secretary warns of tough months ahead until pandemic is under control, seeks details on GameStop mania
2021-02-04 08:56:00 World Vale Agrees to $7 Billion Settlement for Brumadinho Dam Collapse Court settlement is intended to compensate Minas Gerais state for the socioeconomic damage caused by the disaster
2021-02-04 08:56:00 Markets A New Road for Mercedes-Benz Offers Hope for Volkswagen Too Daimler’s shareholder-friendly decision to split its car and truck divisions will be hard for Germany’s largest car maker to ignore
2021-02-04 08:54:00 Economy U.S. Unemployment Claims Fell to 779,000 Last Week Filings for jobless benefits, a proxy for layoffs, have held at high levels during a winter surge in Covid-19 cases
2021-02-04 08:45:00 Markets Stock Futures Tick Up Ahead of Weekly Jobless Claims S&P 500 appears poised for a muted trading day, with technology stocks leading the market higher.
2021-02-04 08:43:00 World Former Commander of Lord’s Resistance Army Convicted of War Crimes Former child soldier Dominic Ongwen helped lead notorious rebel group that terrorized Central Africa for decades
2021-02-04 08:13:00 Business Peloton Keeps Growing, and So Do Its Pains Long shipping delays continue to dog the company but haven’t slowed the meteoric rise of its sales and share price
2021-02-04 08:05:00 Business UnitedHealth Group Names Andrew Witty as Chief Executive The provider of health care coverage, software, and data consulting firm services says Witty will succeed David S. Wichmann, who is retiring
2021-02-04 08:04:00 Business Merck’s Kenneth Frazier to Retire as CEO at End of June Chief financial officer Robert Davis will become chief executive of the drugmaker July 1
2021-02-04 07:58:00 Politics Biden to Outline Foreign Policy Objectives During State Department Visit President is expected to emphasize traditional alliances and human rights
2021-02-04 07:29:00 Business Shell Posts Loss but Eyes Recovery This Year Oil giant to raise dividend; sees demand at pre-pandemic levels in 2022
2021-02-04 07:20:00 World Myanmar Blocks Facebook Access After Online Protests of Military Coup Images of people banging pots and pans or making a three-finger salute from ‘The Hunger Games’ were used to show opposition
2021-02-04 07:09:00 Markets Markets Withstood the GameStop Test Investors should take at least a crumb of comfort that the market has so far avoided a major tumble thanks to GameStop
2021-02-04 07:00:00 Media & Marketing Reddit’s WallStreetBets Founder Sells Life Story to Movie Producer RatPac Entertainment A film will come out first; ‘Maybe I’ll get to go on the red carpet,’ says Jaime Rogozinski
2021-02-04 07:00:00 Markets IAC Is Paring Down to Trade Up After its spinoff of Match Group and Vimeo, IAC lacks an obvious superstar
2021-02-04 06:57:00 World Iranian Diplomat Sentenced to 20 Years for Foiled Bomb Plot in France Assadollah Assadi is the first Iranian diplomat convicted for terrorism in Europe in a case that has soured Iranian relations with a key partner
2021-02-04 06:41:00 World Covid-19 Leaves Colleges Short on International Students—and Money Experts on the sector say it will take years for the schools, among the best in the world, to recover from the economic damage
2021-02-04 06:38:00 World Kim Jong Un’s Family Tree: What You Need to Know About North Korea’s Dynasty The North Korean regime has lasted longer than the Soviet Union despite economic hardship, human-rights abuses and sometimes deadly family rivalries
2021-02-04 06:30:00 CMO Today Walmart Buys Ad Tech to Chase Small-Business Advertisers Major retailers continue efforts to become powers in ad sales
2021-02-04 06:30:00 Markets GameStop Rally Highlights Buyback Risk. Exhibit A: Bed Bath & Beyond. Most companies caught in the Reddit-fueled rally don’t mind the extra bump in their share prices. For others, it is a shot in the arm that hurts.
2021-02-04 06:29:00 Markets Deutsche Bank Posts Profit as Investment Banking Unit Booms German lender ends year with fourth consecutive profitable quarter
2021-02-04 06:08:00 Markets Chinese Video IPO Goes Viral With Investors Kuaishou is latest in a series of hot Hong Kong initial public offerings
2021-02-04 06:00:00 Pro PE Deals Vintage Wine Estates to Go Public in SPAC Merger Merger of Vintage Wine Estates and Bespoke Capital Acquisition Corp. will value the private-equity-backed winemaker at around $690 million
2021-02-04 06:00:00 U.S. Millions of Counterfeit Masks Flooded U.S. Customs Facilities Last Year Agents seized nearly 13 million masks as well as other banned items in the year through September, more than half of them coming from China
2021-02-04 06:00:00 Markets Carlyle Group Turns Profit as the Market Lifts Its Investments Private-equity firm reported December-quarter profit of $518.8 million, up from a loss of $8.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2019
2021-02-04 05:30:00 Life & Arts The 2022 Beijing Olympics Are One Year Away. Covid Concerns Are Already on the Agenda. The one-year countdown to the Winter Games has begun even as this summer’s Tokyo Games still face uncertainty because of the pandemic
2021-02-04 05:30:00 Markets GameStop Mania Drives Scrutiny of Payments to Online Brokers Payment for order flow enabled zero-commission trades but has long been controversial
2021-02-04 05:30:00 Politics Biden’s Labor Pick Would Bring Union Advocate to Cabinet Boston Mayor Marty Walsh would oversee administration’s to-do list, from workplace safety to job growth—and a minimum-wage increase
2021-02-04 05:00:00 Tech Klobuchar to Introduce Antitrust Bill Raising Bar for Technology Deals Incoming head of Senate panel will propose broad changes as Democrats press issue of perceived monopoly power
2021-02-04 03:31:00 Markets The Floundering Town-Builder of the Future Shows China’s Real-Estate Risks China Fortune Land’s struggles show that no corner of the country’s financial markets can escape the heavily leveraged real-estate sector
2021-02-03 22:24:00 Business McKinsey Agrees to $573 Million Settlement Over Opioid Advice Consulting giant advised Purdue Pharma and other opioid manufacturers to aggressively market the painkillers
2021-02-03 21:50:00 U.S. Proud Boys Members Face New Charges Over Capitol Riots Charges against two members mark the latest fallout for the far-right group following the Jan. 6 events
2021-02-03 20:06:00 Artificial Intelligence Canadian Regulators Say Clearview Violated Privacy Laws The facial recognition firm, which scrapes photos from the internet, has become favorite of police departments
2021-02-03 19:09:00 Tech Parler CEO Says He Was Fired by Conservative Political Donor Rebekah Mercer The moderation-light social media platform was forced offline by tech giants last month over how it policed its content
2021-02-03 18:51:00 Pro Bankruptcy Neiman Marcus Foe Kamensky Pleads Guilty Over Chapter 11 Tactics Hedge-fund manager Dan Kamensky was charged after pressuring an investment bank not to compete with him for a prized Neiman Marcus asset
2021-02-03 18:36:00 Opinion Liberalism’s Ministry of Truth Academics and the progressive press mull state media controls.
2021-02-03 18:33:00 Opinion And Now for Mario Draghi’s Next Trick . . . The monetary magician will try to pull a reform rabbit out of Italy’s hat.
2021-02-03 18:30:00 Opinion ‘Equity’ for Asian-Americans in Practice Biden bars ‘Wuhan virus’ but favors racial preferences at Yale.
2021-02-03 18:28:00 Opinion California’s Employment Hazard Its cities are already blowing past the $15 minimum wage.
2021-02-03 18:15:00 Markets Covid-19 Shutdowns Shore Up Allstate, MetLife Earnings Insurers benefit from fewer car crashes, dentist visits
2021-02-03 18:13:00 Markets Regulators Meeting on GameStop Frenzy Are Unlikely to Find Systemic Risk Analysts view gathering called by Treasury secretary more as a signal that agencies are keeping tabs
2021-02-03 18:01:00 Tech Qualcomm Sales Jump on iPhone, 5G Demand Surge Mobile-phone chip maker forecasts another strong quarter of revenue
2021-02-03 17:59:00 Business Corteva, Under Activist Pressure, Forecasts Big Rise in Profits Farm supplier says crop seed and pesticide sales are rising as agricultural economy improves
2021-02-03 17:55:00 Fed Officials: Now Isn’t the Time for the Fed to Think About Pulling Back Support ‘I see us staying the course for a while,’ Chicago Fed president says
2021-02-03 17:51:00 Politics President Biden’s EPA Nominee Says He Will Work With Business Republican senators say Michael Regan gained reputation for fairness as environmental regulator in North Carolina
2021-02-03 17:51:00 Pro Bankruptcy By Chloe Co-Founder Fights Over Trademark for Bankrupt Vegan Chain Celebrity chef Chloe Coscarelli claims she has rights over the namesake brand name that its parent company BC Hospitality Group Inc. is trying to sell
2021-02-03 17:50:00 U.S. Supreme Court Denies Holocaust Victims’ Property Claims Against Nazi Germany, Hungary International law has no remedy for property crimes a government against its own citizens, a unanimous court rules
2021-02-03 17:49:00 Opinion From Covid Relief to Big Government Biden wants to dole out checks and create new programs, not find a compromise.
2021-02-03 17:48:00 Opinion Beijing Won’t Let America ‘Compartmentalize’ Climate Change Biden officials’ urgency about emissions makes them likely to sacrifice more-important goals.
2021-02-03 17:47:00 Books ‘We Need to Hang Out’ Review: So Happy Together Social media, besides flooding the world with narcissism and malevolence, generates loneliness. How to overcome it?
2021-02-03 17:47:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: Another Classic ‘Fact Check’ ‘USA Today confirmed that all of the details of the Instagram post, including the quote, were absolutely correct. Why, then, did it flag it as misleading?’
2021-02-03 17:46:00 Opinion The Tragedy of the Schools Many parents are losing faith in their closed public schools—and are looking for alternatives.
2021-02-03 17:45:00 Opinion What Real Insurrection Looks Like Rioters looting and taking selfies have nothing on Italy’s ‘Years of Lead.’
2021-02-03 17:29:00 Exhibition Review ‘Supercars’ Review: Powerful Playthings The Petersen Automotive Museum showcases sports cars of the uberwealthy—sports cars from Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini and more.
2021-02-03 17:23:00 Hedge Funds This Hedge Fund Made $700 Million on GameStop Individual investors weren’t the only ones to make a lot of money on GameStop’s rally
2021-02-03 16:47:00 Business Bayer Tries Again to Limit Roundup Liability German conglomerate strikes agreement with plaintiffs’ attorneys for a $2 billion compensation program for future claims
2021-02-03 16:35:00 Fed’s Bullard Says Central Bank Monetary Policy Is in ‘Good Place’ The St. Louis Fed chief noted the job-market recovery has been much stronger than expected
2021-02-03 16:21:00 Media & Marketing ‘The Antisocial Network,’ Book About GameStop, Is Sold to Hachette Unit Grand Central Publishing made pre-emptive bid for Ben Mezrich’s book about trading frenzy
2021-02-03 16:13:00 Politics Joe Manchin Backs Price Tag of Biden’s Coronavirus Relief Plan Centrist Democrat has raised concerns about minimum-wage provisions, targeting of stimulus checks
2021-02-03 16:09:00 Business Morgan Wallen Suspended From Record Label After Shouting Racial Slur on Video Radio and streaming services pull back from promoting the country music star, who issues apology
2021-02-03 16:00:00 Markets How to File Your 2020 Taxes if You Worked Remotely in a Different State Here’s how to prepare for the 2021 tax season if you worked across state lines in 2020 because of the pandemic
2021-02-03 15:59:00 Arts & Entertainment Hal Holbrook: Superb Simplicity The actor, whose Jan. 23 death was announced this week, was best known for his acclaimed portrayal of Mark Twain
2021-02-03 15:42:00 World Mexico’s Top Court Sets Back President’s Plans for State Power Company Supreme Court rules that regulatory changes in the country’s electricity market that give priority to the state-owned utility over private power generators is unconstitutional
2021-02-03 15:39:00 Opinion FISA Court Shamefully Protects the Swamp Kevin Clinesmith wasn’t just an attorney, but one who held a public trust as an FBI attorney responsible for providing intelligence information to the FISA Court that Judge Boasberg heads.
2021-02-03 15:38:00 Opinion Price Theory Remains Enduringly Important We still need price theory; among other things, it cautions us about utopian visions that pay no heed to economic reality.
2021-02-03 15:38:00 Politics Republicans Weigh Political Fates of Marjorie Taylor Greene, Liz Cheney House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy tries to balance competing wings of GOP in post-Trump era
2021-02-03 15:37:00 Opinion Henry Aaron’s Greatness Transcended Categories Henry Aaron’s genius wasn’t simply overcoming racism, but making it irrelevant.
2021-02-03 15:32:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Robinhood Faces Civil Lawsuits Over Trading Restrictions Individual investors, users of the online brokerage have so far filed more than 30 separate civil lawsuits over limits imposed to certain securities
2021-02-03 15:31:00 Real Estate What’s the Best Kitchen Countertop Material? Marble? Corian? Quartzite? We consulted interior designers to match countertop substances with personality types. Find yourself, and your next kitchen here.
2021-02-03 15:27:00 Politics Biden Signals Openness to Sending $1,400 Stimulus Checks to Smaller Group President tells House Democrats he won’t change amount of payment in proposed Covid relief deal
2021-02-03 15:15:00 World Canada Names Proud Boys a Terrorist Group The designation marks the latest fallout for the group following the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6
2021-02-03 15:06:00 CFO Journal PPG Industries Puts Focus on M&A Instead of Share Buybacks The paint maker has struck three deals in recent months and is trying to do a fourth one
2021-02-03 15:05:00 U.S. Justice Department Drops Yale University Admissions Lawsuit Dismissal of suit alleging discrimination against white and Asian-American applicants signals Biden administration’s shift on civil-rights enforcement
2021-02-03 15:01:00 Life & Arts A Hollywood Blitz of New Movies Ahead of the Oscars Deadline Studios have until the end of February to release films for Oscars consideration. And because of the pandemic, many of the new titles can be viewed at home.
2021-02-03 14:59:00 Business Chip Shortage Hits General Motors, Leads to Production Cuts Detroit auto maker plans to trim output at four factories amid limited semiconductor supplies
2021-02-03 14:56:00 Markets Google’s Clicks Cover Its Cloud Strong cash flow from recovered ad business underwrites steep cloud losses
2021-02-03 14:26:00 Life & Arts How Can I Cut My Own Hair—and Make It Look Good? Trimming hair at home—be it yours, your partner’s or your squirming child’s—can easily result in disaster. Here, expert advice on how to masterfully shear the whole family.
2021-02-03 14:23:00 Opinion Californians Disapprove of Gov. Lockdown A new survey suggests that Gavin Newsom is in political trouble.
2021-02-03 14:11:00 U.S. New York Financial Groups Urge State Leaders to Oppose Stock-Transfer Tax Proposal Proponents of the idea say it would raise additional revenue as the state confronts a budget deficit
2021-02-03 13:54:00 Opinion The Short March Back to Inflation Like today, policy makers of the 1960s had bigger worries than prices. Then a spike crushed the economy.
2021-02-03 13:53:00 Opinion The U.N. Refugee Agency With Few Actual Refugees Less than 5% of five million people deemed ‘Palestinian refugees’ meet the criteria for this status.
2021-02-03 13:08:00 Markets Free Trading’s Costs Come Into Focus The GameStop mania highlighted the downside of free trading for brokerages like Robinhood, though large diversified firms can still benefit
2021-02-03 12:45:00 Business Daimler to Separate Its Trucks Business From Mercedes-Benz Cars Auto maker hopes truck-making spinoff will boost valuation of its businesses
2021-02-03 12:40:00 Markets Alibaba Plans Up to $5 Billion Bond Sale Deal would follow multibillion-dollar debt issuance in 2014 and 2017
2021-02-03 12:39:00 U.S. Steve Bannon Faces New York Criminal Probe Trump pardoned the former White House adviser on federal fraud charges last month
2021-02-03 12:27:00 Life & Arts Can I Still Fly With My Dog? The free rides for emotional support animals ended last month, but that doesn’t mean all pets are grounded. Here are the new barking orders.
2021-02-03 12:06:00 Life & Arts What Time Does the 2021 Super Bowl Start? The Super Bowl starts at the same time as every year: 6:30 p.m.
2021-02-03 12:00:00 Economy Most Small Firms Below Pre-Pandemic Levels, Fed Survey Finds In survey of almost 10,000 respondents, many small companies said continued government aid is key to their survival
2021-02-03 11:59:00 Business Why Jeff Bezos Is Stepping Down as CEO but Staying On as Executive Chairman Amazon chief will stick around to innovate, ensure smooth transition, make ‘one-way door’ decisions
2021-02-03 11:57:00 Life & Arts The Designer of Kamala Harris’s Inauguration Outfit Crafts a Strategy for the Pandemic After a high-profile start to 2021, rising fashion star Christopher John Rogers focuses on new ways to do business amid Covid’s disruption
2021-02-03 11:40:00 Business Jazz Pharmaceuticals to Buy Cannabis-Based Drugmaker GW Pharma for $6.7 Billion Jazz bets drugs derived from the marijuana plant will be big players in treating neuroscience conditions
2021-02-03 11:05:00 Life & Arts The College Football Team That Built a Dynasty by Thinking Like a Startup Clemson’s multimedia effort has given its football team a technological edge in the battle for recruiting
2021-02-03 10:49:00 Business Electric-Car Buzz Pushes Up Shares in Company With Nothing but Cash Churchill Capital Corp IV’s stock has more than tripled on report it is in talks with Lucid Motors
2021-02-03 10:48:00 Politics Senate Democrats Reach Power-Sharing Deal With Republicans Democrats hold majority in 50-50 Senate because Vice President Kamala Harris can break ties
2021-02-03 10:30:00 Life & Arts Top Colleges in the West for Diversity La Sierra University tops this list from the WSJ/THE College Rankings
2021-02-03 10:16:00 Arts The Nominees for 2021 Golden Globe Awards Nominees for the 2021 Golden Globe awards were announced Wednesday, Feb. 3. The awards will be presented at a ceremony on Feb. 28.
2021-02-03 10:03:00 World Tanzania Shunned Lockdowns. Now It’s Rejecting Covid-19 Vaccines. Tanzanian President John Magufuli has rejected social-distancing measures and instead urged citizens to pray against a ‘satanic’ virus
2021-02-03 10:00:00 World Banker Survived Bullets, a Kidnapper and Bad Press Jack Grundhofer, who has died at age 82, built U.S. Bancorp into a giant and took heat for slashing costs
2021-02-03 09:55:00 Life & Arts NFL Sponsorships Still No. 1 With a Bullet—and an Asterisk Betting companies, personal care and new stadiums in Los Angeles and Las Vegas drove a 10% increase in sponsorships despite the pandemic
2021-02-03 09:47:00 Markets Kraft Heinz Sends Mr. Peanut to a Better Place Company is set to sell Planters to Hormel following years of neglect
2021-02-03 09:40:00 Tech Andy Jassy’s Climb to Amazon CEO Shows the Cloud’s Rising Power Business of providing remote computer services represents about 10% of Amazon’s sales but produced its next leader
2021-02-03 09:31:00 Arts Women Claim Golden Globe Nominations for Best Director Female filmmakers emerged as a force among this year’s Golden Globe nominees, with women occupying three of the five slots for best director.
2021-02-03 09:27:00 Markets Hedge Funds Double Down on Merger Bets Amid GameStop Tumult As many hedge funds rushed to cover their positions in last week’s retail-led surge, funds that bet on the outcome of deals spotted an opening
2021-02-03 09:12:00 World After Myanmar Coup, Aung San Suu Kyi Accused of Illegally Importing Walkie Talkies Her party says she has been remanded in custody for two weeks—a step experts say is a means to justify her detention
2021-02-03 09:07:00 Business CCC Information Services to Go Public in $6.5 Billion SPAC Merger Auto-insurance IT provider will merge with a SPAC backed by Dragoneer Investment Group
2021-02-03 09:00:00 Markets Car Insurance Prices Fell in 2020 as Pandemic Reduced Driving Some consumer groups don’t think rates have come down enough
2021-02-03 09:00:00 CIO Journal Zoom Launches Tools Focused on Post-Lockdown Health, Safety ‘In the post-pandemic era, work has changed forever,’ Zoom CIO Harry Moseley says
2021-02-03 08:59:00 Life & Arts The Latest Hotel Perk for Overseas Travelers: Covid Testing Hotels and other businesses that draw U.S. tourists abroad are scrambling to make testing for the virus as easy as possible
2021-02-03 08:56:00 Tech What’s the Best Home-Exercise Equipment—For Any Budget? Whether you have $100 or $10,000 to spend, here’s expert advice on the most strategic, single piece of gear to invest in
2021-02-03 08:48:00 Markets It Won’t Be Easy to Stay Low Cost—Even for Low-Cost Airlines After the pandemic, budget carriers are expected to grow in more congested markets while keeping costs low. Doing both has proven tricky before.
2021-02-03 08:33:00 World Israel to Widen Covid-19 Vaccines to General Public as Cases Surge Government to offer shots to everyone over 16, says 80% of new cases were caused by fast-spreading U.K. variant
2021-02-03 08:33:00 Economy U.S. Still Faces Uncertain Borrowing Needs Due to Covid-19, Treasury Says Advisory committee urges Congress to suspend debt ceiling before July deadline
2021-02-03 08:31:00 World AstraZeneca Vaccine Shown to Curb Covid-19 Transmission, Preliminary Data Suggest Researchers at Oxford say spacing apart doses as much as three months worked, but others say the trial had limits
2021-02-03 08:06:00 Life & Arts How Can I Stop Stress-Biting My Nails? Nail experts and a clinical psychologist offer actionable tips for quitting—as do two of our manicure-mangling fashion editors
2021-02-03 08:05:00 Markets Hopes for Draghi Government Drive Rally in Italian Bonds, Stocks Former ECB President Mario Draghi has been asked to form a new government in Italy
2021-02-03 08:00:00 Business Robinhood Will Air Super Bowl Ad Amid GameStop Saga Online brokerage seeks to repair image after trading restrictions prompted backlash from customers and lawmakers
2021-02-03 08:00:00 Markets Stock Futures Gain on Earnings, Stimulus Hopes Tech shares are poised to extend rally as investors cheer earnings from Alphabet and await results from Qualcomm and PayPal
2021-02-03 08:00:00 New York Electric-Vehicle Charging Hub to Park Itself in New York City Moped-sharing company Revel says it will launch new business at a former Pfizer building in Brooklyn
2021-02-03 07:52:00 Business Figs Fights Lawsuit Over Scrubs Ads Medical-apparel startup faces litigation from established company that says its marketing is misleading
2021-02-03 07:43:00 World Mario Draghi Is Asked to Form a Government to Lead Italy Out of Recession Former ECB president will begin talks with Italy’s parties in a nation skeptical of technocrats but in need of new direction
2021-02-03 07:38:00 Markets Sony is at the Top of its Game. Next Up: Anime, Music Sony, like most gaming companies, has done exceptionally well this year. But it is also positioning itself cannily for the post-pandemic world.
2021-02-03 07:10:00 Markets Bloomberg Face-Off Awaits London Stock Exchange Following Refinitiv Deal LSE’s big bet on data comes as Refinitiv has steadily lost market share against its main rival
2021-02-03 07:05:00 Economy Eurozone Recession Risk Grows as Pandemic Chills Services High infection rates and government restrictions led to a deeper decline in services activity
2021-02-03 07:03:00 Markets Match Owns Dating’s Past, Present and Future Match’s flame has cooled amid the pandemic, but sparks will soon fly again
2021-02-03 07:01:00 Markets Apollo’s Earnings Climb Despite Epstein-Related Turmoil The test will be whether Leon Black’s recently announced decision to cede the CEO role will put to rest any investor concerns
2021-02-03 07:00:00 World Jamie Tarses Rose Fast as TV Executive, Then Hit Static She developed ‘Friends’ and other hits, was toppled from senior job at ABC; dead at age 56
2021-02-03 07:00:00 World Covid-19 Lockdown Exposes Fragility in Aging Chinese City Tonghua’s older population and weak economy make for new challenges when residents are shut in
2021-02-03 07:00:00 Experience Report Evinced, a Web Accessibility Startup, Raises $17 Million Startup uses AI to scan company websites for flaws in their accessibility to people with disabilities. The round comes as the field is increasingly drawing interest from venture capital
2021-02-03 06:00:00 Economy Minority-Owned Firms Hurt by Pandemic Will Be Focus for Small Business Administration Nominee Isabel Guzman will oversee the $284 billion Paycheck Protection Program of forgivable loans and other efforts to help small businesses
2021-02-03 06:00:00 Business Spotify Adds Subscribers With Focus on Podcasts But streaming giant offers conservative outlook for the current year as new sign-ups could ebb
2021-02-03 05:30:00 Politics Biden’s China Policy to Be Steered by Team of Rivals High-powered officials have longstanding ties to one another, but different objectives in climate, human-rights and trade policies
2021-02-03 05:30:00 Markets For One GameStop Trader, the Wild Ride Was Almost as Good as the Enormous Payoff A small-time trader turns $500 into more than $200,000
2021-02-03 05:30:00 Derby’s Take: Federal Reserve Officials Continue Brushing Off Market Volatility Monetary policy isn’t driving asset values, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell says
2021-02-03 05:30:00 Economy Biden Wants a $15 Minimum Wage. Here’s What People Say It Would Do to the Economy White House says a raise would help workers; opponents warn of job cuts
2021-02-03 05:30:00 Markets Groceries Help Meituan Grow Into One of China’s Biggest Tech Companies It has quickly become the country’s third-most-valuable internet company, with a market value of more than $300 billion
2021-02-03 04:18:00 Business Mining Company USA Rare Earth Exploring New York Listing This Year Project in Texas could help counter China’s dominance of resources essential to technology
2021-02-03 01:30:00 CMO Today Publicis Attributes U.S. Growth to Data Business But the pandemic continues to complicate predictions for 2021
2021-02-03 01:19:00 World Mexico Arrests 12 Police Officers Over Migrant Massacre Tamaulipas state police officers allegedly involved in killing of 19 people in January
2021-02-02 23:43:00 Politics Pro-Trump Lawyer Lin Wood Is Investigated for Alleged Illegal Voting in Georgia Wood promoted claims that the election was rigged against former President Donald Trump
2021-02-02 22:29:00 Politics Janet Yellen to Meet With Regulators on GameStop, Market Volatility Treasury secretary has called meeting with SEC, Federal Reserve and CFTC
2021-02-02 21:06:00 Business Hackers Lurked in SolarWinds Email System for at Least 9 Months, CEO Says Investigators still don’t know how the company was breached in attack that will cost millions
2021-02-02 20:21:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Former WageWorks Executives Settle SEC Accounting Claims The former executives failed to disclose that a client didn’t intend to pay $3.6 million, the regulator said
2021-02-02 20:09:00 Tech How Jeff Bezos Has Run Amazon, From Meetings to Managing The common thread through his maxims has been the emphasis on staying relentlessly innovative
2021-02-02 19:52:00 Pro Bankruptcy Purdue Pharma Seeks Ruling on Its Right to Billions in Insurance Coverage The maker of OxyContin is suing more than a dozen of its insurers in an effort to get clarity on its right to as much as $3.3 billion in payouts
2021-02-02 19:23:00 Tech Jeff Bezos to Step Down as Amazon CEO; Andy Jassy to Take Over The company announced changing roles as it reported that revenue in the fourth quarter soared 44% to $125.56 billion
2021-02-02 19:13:00 Politics McConnell, McCarthy Take Different Approaches in Post-Trump Era Party leaders grapple with controversies over Marjorie Taylor Greene, Liz Cheney
2021-02-02 19:00:00 Life & Arts The Therapeutic Value of Reading Books can help calm and transport you from pandemic stress. But many of us are finding it harder to read now. Here’s how—and why—to get back to it.
2021-02-02 18:56:00 U.S. New York Repeal of Anti-Prostitution Loitering Statute Is Approved State law had been used to harass people based on their gender expression, advocates say
2021-02-02 18:39:00 Opinion House Republican Reckoning The fates of Reps. Cheney and Greene will suggest the GOP future.
2021-02-02 18:39:00 Opinion Where’s Biden on Opening Schools? So far he’s buckling to the unions that won’t return to classrooms.
2021-02-02 18:36:00 Opinion Alexei Navalny’s Cause Can the Biden Administration marshal a unified Western response to the Russian opposition leader’s prison sentence?
2021-02-02 18:35:00 Opinion Joe Biden’s New Trans Policy Students debate the changes to the military and high-school sports.
2021-02-02 18:26:00 Markets Jeff Bezos Sort of Goes Out on Top Amazon CEO’s transition comes following stellar performance—and ahead of big challenges
2021-02-02 18:17:00 Opinion The Risks of Too Much ‘Stimulus’ Disposable real per capita income rose 5.5% in 2020, the highest rate since 1984, due largely to transfer payments.
2021-02-02 18:16:00 Opinion Congressional Democrats’ Plan to Bail Out China IMF ‘special drawing rights’ with no strings are the wrong way to help developing countries.
2021-02-02 18:16:00 Opinion Progressives Put the Racial ‘Equity’ Squeeze on Biden The left wants a spoils system on steroids. If the president gives it to them, heaven help us.
2021-02-02 18:15:00 Opinion Investing Has a PR Problem Robinhood might remind its customers that stocks are about something real.
2021-02-02 18:14:00 Books ‘Just Eat’ Review: Got to Lose Some Weight There are so many diet programs to choose from—but do any of them work? One man’s try-anything search for a slimmer self.
2021-02-02 17:55:00 Opinion They Can’t Quit Him The first full week of the post-Trump era wasn’t kind to CNN.
2021-02-02 17:50:00 Business Chipotle’s Covid-19 Costs Weigh on Its Profit Burrito chain says labor expenses rose in latest quarter as pandemic worsened; online orders surge
2021-02-02 16:55:00 CFO Journal CFOs Prepare for Long-term Shifts in Customer Demand as Pandemic Drags On In a recent survey, 86% of finance chiefs said that helping their businesses adapt is their top priority over the next five years
2021-02-02 16:48:00 Politics Biden Presses Case for Large Covid Aid Package Democrats set to start reconciliation process to allow them to pass legislation without GOP support
2021-02-02 16:44:00 Business USDA Nominee Vilsack Casts Farmers as Leaders in Climate Fight Incentives can help agriculture curb emissions, Vilsack says; Republicans warn against overreach
2021-02-02 16:29:00 U.S. Slain Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick to Be Honored at Capitol Officer who died of injuries sustained in Jan. 6 riot will lie in honor in the Rotunda
2021-02-02 16:25:00 Politics Senate Confirms Mayorkas as Homeland Security Secretary, Buttigieg for Transportation Post Mr. Mayorkas was confirmed by a narrow margin, 56-43, while Mr. Buttigieg was approved by a bipartisan vote of 86 to 13
2021-02-02 16:18:00 World Italy’s President Expected to Ask Mario Draghi to Form New Government Former ECB chief summoned for a meeting with President Sergio Mattarella
2021-02-02 16:10:00 Real Estate Hedge-Fund Manager Ackman Raises Bet on Housing in Texas, Hawaii, Las Vegas Pershing Square Capital Management increases stake in Houston developer of multifamily housing in warm, low-tax states
2021-02-02 15:48:00 Life & Arts Advice on Raising Resilient Kids During the Covid-19 Pandemic Dr. Harold S. Koplewicz lays out a new parenting approach in his book, ‘The Scaffold Effect.’
2021-02-02 15:43:00 Life & Arts The Best Ways to Drive Across Country During Covid, even driving vacations can get a little bumpy so we asked AAA trip-planning pros to suggest three foolproof routes (for now or after the pandemic) and a few tips for smoothing the way
2021-02-02 15:40:00 Tech Electronic Arts Plans Return to College Football Videogames Company is planning new games featuring real schools—but without the names or likenesses of specific athletes
2021-02-02 15:39:00 Pro Bankruptcy Hedge Fund Behind AMC Rescue Loan Made Hundreds of Millions in Gains Most of the $200 million in gains are on debt, rest from options
2021-02-02 15:36:00 World What Is Novichok, the Poisoning Agent Used on Russia’s Alexei Navalny? The deadly nerve agent was developed in the Soviet Union
2021-02-02 15:31:00 World Alexei Navalny, Russian Opposition Politician, Given 3½-Year Sentence Court ruling sidelines the country’s most prominent rival to President Vladimir Putin and will likely fuel a growing protest movement
2021-02-02 15:29:00 Markets Traders Who Launched GameStop Frenzy Are Turning Against New Members Longtime WallStreetBets followers ask moderators to ban new users or limit where they appear
2021-02-02 15:26:00 U.S. Two FBI Agents Dead, Three Hurt Serving Warrant in South Florida A suspect was also killed in shooting; officials were aiming to seize evidence in child pornography investigation
2021-02-02 15:25:00 Politics Pentagon Clears Out Advisory Boards to Oust Last-Minute Trump Picks With clean sweep, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin avoids selectively firing Trump supporters
2021-02-02 15:22:00 World U.K. Charity Hero Capt. Tom Moore Dies at 100 Queen Elizabeth II knighted the centenarian, who raised millions of pounds by walking lengths of his garden during coronavirus lockdown
2021-02-02 14:55:00 Life & Arts What Are the Best Sustainable Fashion Brands for Actually Stylish Clothes? Fashion insiders share their favorite eco-conscious labels and how they’re making a difference
2021-02-02 14:46:00 Business HCA Healthcare’s Profit Rises Despite Drop in Patients Revenue per admission climbed at national hospital chain in 2020, with brunt of Covid-19 cases coming at year-end
2021-02-02 14:43:00 World How Europe Tripped in Covid-19 Vaccine Race The continent wanted to teach the world a lesson in solidarity. Now its vaccination plan is falling apart.
2021-02-02 14:32:00 Opera Review ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ and ‘Fidelio’ Reviews: Operas Updated for Our Times Boston Lyric Opera fuses Philip Glass’s 1987 work with the story of a migrant child in detention; Washington National Opera releases a graphic novel version of Beethoven’s only opera.
2021-02-02 14:25:00 U.S. Covid-19 Vaccine Supply to States to Rise Again, Biden Administration Says The increases will bring the weekly vaccine supply for states to 10.5 million doses
2021-02-02 14:24:00 Television Review ‘Bliss’ Review: A Trip From Skid Row to Altered States Owen Wilson and Salma Hayek star as an unlikely duo on a drug-induced quest to prove that their world is a simulation in this sci-fi film written and directed by Mike Cahill.
2021-02-02 14:15:00 Opinion What to Learn From Trump and the Experts? The expert class will continue to create their opinions within their own bubble of reinforcing data, leaving a wide open political landscape for those willing to venture beyond those self-imposed constraints.
2021-02-02 14:13:00 Opinion New Oil Lease Ban Makes Good Market Sense The sky is not falling for the oil and gas industry and there is neither a shortage of federal oil and gas leases nor a need for expanding production.
2021-02-02 14:12:00 Opinion Self-Serving Teachers Bring Shame to the Windy City After all these years of insisting that the classroom is the only place to educate our children, it’s fascinating to learn that the Chicago Teachers Union now opposes the classroom learning model.
2021-02-02 14:00:00 Deals Kraft Heinz Nears Deal to Sell Planters Brand to Hormel The deal, which would value the century-old brand at around $3 billion, could be finalized as soon as next week
2021-02-02 13:57:00 Life & Arts Foolproof Ribeye Recipe We tapped a panel of top butchers for tips on the best way to cook a steak. This simple recipe is the sum of their advice.
2021-02-02 13:45:00 Life & Arts What’s the Best Way to Cook a Steak? We assembled a panel of top meat purveyors to answer this question. Turns out it comes down to four simple steps.
2021-02-02 13:30:00 World U.S. Labels Detention of Myanmar Leader Aung San Suu Kyi a Coup Official assessment will force curtailment of U.S. aid, though that aid is limited
2021-02-02 12:53:00 Markets Silver ETF at Center of Reddit-Fueled Surge Retail investors’ migration to silver has generating huge inflows for BlackRock’s iShares Silver Trust
2021-02-02 12:47:00 Opinion YouTube Cancels the U.S. Senate It censors testimony from physicians on early treatments for Covid-19 patients.
2021-02-02 12:46:00 Opinion Can Biden Broker a Covid Compromise? The best shot at a bipartisan bill is focusing on relief, not structural change.
2021-02-02 12:45:00 Real Estate What Are the Best Low-Maintenance House Plants—That Aren’t Everywhere? Lists of easy-care greenery always include the same species—from snake plant to rubber tree. We asked horticulturalists to recommend five handsome, no-brainer alternatives.
2021-02-02 12:26:00 World China’s Top Diplomat Warns Biden Against Meddling in Hong Kong, Xinjiang Yang Jiechi’s firm statement on ‘red line’ came as U.S. secretary of state criticized Beijing
2021-02-02 12:13:00 Tech Uber’s $1.1 Billion Drizly Deal Set to Turbocharge Online Alcohol Delivery Ride-hailing giant builds out offerings it can bring to homebound consumers
2021-02-02 11:54:00 Tech What’s the Best Space Heater? It’s time to replace your clanky, janky hand-me-down space heater—especially if you’re trying to work at home. Here, four that combine power with good design.
2021-02-02 11:50:00 Markets Ferrari’s Road to Lower Emissions May Be Bumpy Investors may not be able to put the Italian supercar manufacturer in the same league as handbag makers Hermès and LVMH forever
2021-02-02 11:13:00 U.S. Capitol Riot Probe Focuses on Protesters Who Assaulted Police Recent charges in Jan. 6 attack center on assaulting and obstructing law-enforcement officers
2021-02-02 11:09:00 Markets iPhone Boom a Mixed Blessing for Chip Suppliers Skyworks, Cirrus Logic show benefits and risks of Apple dependency
2021-02-02 10:17:00 Business Auto Makers Abandon Challenge to California on Emissions Rules Toyota, GM and others had joined Trump administration’s effort to revoke California’s authority to limit tailpipe emissions
2021-02-02 09:51:00 Business Microsoft, Apple Lead the Management Top 250 All-Stars Only eight companies are designated as all-stars for their performance in all five of the ranking’s main components
2021-02-02 09:45:00 Business Marriott CEO Arne Sorenson Scales Back Duties for Cancer Treatment Hotel chain says day-to-day operations will be overseen by others
2021-02-02 09:23:00 Tech Elon Musk Takes Break From Twitter ‘Off Twitter for a while’ appeared on the Tesla CEO’s personal account, generating tens of thousands of likes within a few hours
2021-02-02 09:11:00 Markets GameStop, UPS, Silver: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today Stock futures rose ahead of earnings from technology giants Amazon.com and Google-parent Alphabet
2021-02-02 08:50:00 Markets Stock Futures Rise Ahead of Amazon, Alphabet Earnings Silver prices dropped over 6% after the Comex exchange increased margin requirements erasing some of Monday’s steep gains
2021-02-02 08:48:00 Politics Trump, House Democrats to Lay Out Impeachment Trial Strategies The former president plans to argue the process is unconstitutional because he is out of office
2021-02-02 08:46:00 World Russian Covid-19 Vaccine Was Highly Effective in Trial, Study Finds, Boosting Moscow’s Rollout Ambitions Sputnik V shot achieved 91.6% efficacy against coronavirus symptoms, says paper in U.K.’s Lancet
2021-02-02 08:39:00 Markets Russian Arctic Oil Taints BP’s Green Shift An almost 20% stake in Rosneft is likely to hamper the U.K. company’s efforts to appeal to environmental investors
2021-02-02 08:34:00 Business After Myanmar Coup, Facebook Bans National Military TV Network’s Page Facebook removed Myawaddy network from platform and is ‘closely monitoring political events’ in Myanmar
2021-02-02 08:33:00 Economy Europe’s Economy Falls Further Behind U.S. and China. ‘It’s Getting Desperate.’ Eurozone GDP fell nearly twice as much as the U.S.’s last year, as China powered ahead
2021-02-02 08:23:00 Business Alibaba’s Quarterly Sales Lifted by Extended Shopping Event Results came after the abrupt halt to blockbuster IPO of affiliate Ant Group in November and launch of Chinese probe for alleged anticompetitive behavior
2021-02-02 08:11:00 Business Exxon Logs Fourth Quarterly Loss in a Row Oil giant reports total loss for fiscal year of more than $22 billion
2021-02-02 08:00:00 Tech Tesla Recalls Roughly 135,000 Vehicles Over Touch-Screen Failures Safety action is one of the electric-car maker’s largest to date
2021-02-02 08:00:00 Real Estate Amazon Unveils Outdoorsy New HQ2, Renewing Its Commitment to Offices Centerpiece of design is a 350-foot building dubbed the Helix, which features two spiraling outdoor walkways
2021-02-02 08:00:00 Markets Wood-Pulp Prices Surge as Speculators Pounce in China Demand rises for premium napkins and toilet paper, with more people home during the Covid-19 pandemic
2021-02-02 07:57:00 Business Pfizer Lifts Outlook on Covid-19 Vaccine, Posts Weaker-Than-Expected Profit Pharmaceutical company expects about $15 billion in 2021 vaccine sales
2021-02-02 07:37:00 Markets Two Small-Time Investors Were Buying GameStop Stock Before It Was Cool GameStop’s rally has been credited to Chewy co-founder Ryan Cohen, but two relatively unknown investors were pushing for big changes more than a year prior
2021-02-02 06:51:00 Business UPS’s Revenue Jumps 21% on Online Shopping Surge Delivery giant boosted by higher shipping fees and more e-commerce packages amid pandemic
2021-02-02 06:48:00 World Navalny Protests: What’s Happening in Russia? Opposition leader Alexei Navalny could face years in prison as a police clampdown intensifies
2021-02-02 06:37:00 Markets India’s Budget Gets Recovery Right, Long-Term Development Wrong The country still awaits policies that would allow it to become an upper-middle-income country
2021-02-02 06:30:00 Markets Rocket Startup Astra Space Poised to Go Public at $2.1 Billion Valuation Northern California space-transportation company would be first small-booster specialist to trade in U.S.
2021-02-02 06:07:00 Business BP Warns Pandemic Pain to Persist in 2021 Oil major posts quarterly profit, buoyed by asset sales, but says Covid-19 restrictions will continue to sap demand in the coming months
2021-02-02 06:00:00 CMO Today Ralph Lauren CMO Moves to Boll & Branch The luxury bedding company, which generated more than $100 million in revenue last year, aims to reach more potential customers
2021-02-02 05:30:00 Tech Amazon Poised for Record Sales From Pandemic-Charged Online Holiday Shopping E-commerce giant scaled up massive to handle surging demand for goods with people stuck at home
2021-02-02 05:30:00 Markets If You Want to Buy GameStop Stock for Fun, Here’s Why You Should Think Twice Even a single share of the hot stock doesn’t come without risk
2021-02-02 05:30:00 Business Google Likely to Ride Global Ad Recovery to Record Profit Analysts forecast search giant’s parent will post a record $52.67 billion in revenue, with profit projected to rise to $11.87 billion
2021-02-02 05:30:00 Pro Cyber News Hospitals Suffer New Wave of Hacking Attempts Cyberattackers renew activity as hospitals roll out Covid-19 vaccines
2021-02-02 05:08:00 Markets Risky Borrowers Hope to Boost Green Credentials Some companies are asking investors to trim their interest costs on risky loans if they hit ESG targets
2021-02-02 05:00:00 Politics Biden to Set Up Task Force to Reunite Families Separated at the Border The task force will be established through an executive order, one of several immigration actions the president is expected to take
2021-02-01 23:58:00 Business Former Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg Is Raising $200 Million for SPAC Blank-check company plans to target companies in space, defense and other industries
2021-02-01 22:11:00 Politics Biden Keeps Aluminum Tariffs on U.A.E., Reversing Trump Policy The Trump administration had scheduled to lift the tariffs on Feb. 3
2021-02-01 19:12:00 Tech Google Settles With Labor Department Over Hiring, Pay Discrimination Claims Company to pay more than $3.8 million to resolve a case
2021-02-01 18:41:00 Opinion The Robinhood Non-Conspiracy A margin call is not a Wall Street plot to fleece Reddit traders.
2021-02-01 18:39:00 U.S. Officer Who Shot Capitol Rioter Ashli Babbitt Shouldn’t Be Charged, Investigators Advise Ms. Babbitt died after being shot by Capitol Police officer on Jan. 6
2021-02-01 18:38:00 Opinion Burma’s Coup and Biden’s Choice The U.S. response needs to take into account China’s regional designs.
2021-02-01 18:36:00 Opinion Joe Biden’s Old Russia Start He criticizes Putin on Navalny but offers a gift on nuclear arms control.
2021-02-01 18:35:00 Opinion Biden and the Global Tax Fight Europe wants to lure Yellen into a revenue raid on U.S. tech giants.
2021-02-01 18:28:00 Opinion Why Operation Warp Speed Worked The successful vaccine program followed the model of U.S. mobilization in World War II.
2021-02-01 18:28:00 Opinion Biden Uses Canada as a Punching Bag His ‘Buy American’ plan is worse than Trump’s for suppliers.
2021-02-01 18:27:00 Opinion Eurocrats Are From Pluto Team Biden will be disappointed if it mistakes them for starry-eyed idealists.
2021-02-01 18:25:00 Opinion Catholic Schools Are Beating Covid Will Joe Biden speak up for those he credits with making him the man he is today?
2021-02-01 18:19:00 Books ‘Elizabethans’ Review: Where Have All the Bowlers Gone? A ‘reign’s length’ of social change in Britain, from the ascension of Elizabeth II to the Beatles, Brussels, Brexit and beyond.
2021-02-01 18:12:00 Politics Biden Administration Asks Supreme Court to Cancel Arguments on Border Wall, Asylum Policy The moves come as the administration changes direction on immigration, LGBT protections, voting rights and other policies
2021-02-01 17:59:00 Experience Report LiketoKnow.it App Tweaks Search Function, as Shopping Sites Battle for Users Platforms are revamping their features from practical to luxe, and influencers are moving into the space vacated by conventional marketing during the pandemic
2021-02-01 17:50:00 Politics Democrats Pressure GOP to Remove Marjorie Taylor Greene From Committees Freshman Georgia lawmaker has faced criticism over past embrace of conspiracy theories, including contentions about mass shootings at schools
2021-02-01 17:43:00 Business Exxon to Create ‘Low Carbon’ Business Unit as It Faces Activists The company will seek to commercialize its carbon capture and storage technology, investing $3 billion through 2025
2021-02-01 17:34:00 Markets Mobile-Gaming Developer Playstudios Is Going Public Through Merger The deal values the company, founded by a former casino executive, at $1.1 billion
2021-02-01 17:33:00 Opinion Taiwan Defense: A Hard Problem for the U.S. It is inconceivable that the powerful, proud and growing menace that is China today would set itself up to lose a war over Taiwan.
2021-02-01 17:32:00 Opinion It’s Time for a Simple, Universal Carbon Tax The right national carbon fee would begin to suppress the use of all fossil fuels, everywhere and immediately.
2021-02-01 17:31:00 Opinion Testing’s Good for the NFL, Less Good if You Are Poor It is unfortunate that gaps in access to testing is still commonplace across the country.
2021-02-01 17:25:00 Business GameStop Saga Heads to Netflix and the Big Screen Streaming company and Hollywood producers race to make projects about Wall Street turmoil
2021-02-01 16:53:00 Music Review ‘Sound Ancestors’ by Madlib Review: Turning Bite-Size Samples Into a Full Meal The producer teams with Kieran Hebden, aka Four Tet, on an album that merges borrowed musical snippets into a satisfying whole.
2021-02-01 16:51:00 Politics Republicans Propose $618 Billion Covid-19 Stimulus Plan GOP plan includes $300 a week in federal unemployment benefits through June
2021-02-01 16:48:00 World Iran Launches New Rocket, Showing Advances in Potential Missile Technology Tehran seeks to raise the stakes ahead of possible negotiations with the Biden administration over a new nuclear deal
2021-02-01 16:44:00 U.S. Pennsylvania’s Top Election Official Resigns Department of State made mistake of failing to advertise proposed constitutional amendment over childhood sex-abuse claims
2021-02-01 16:36:00 Markets Stocks End Higher as Online Traders Send Silver Soaring Silver futures jump as Reddit users discuss executing a ‘short squeeze’ similar to the one that propelled GameStop
2021-02-01 16:22:00 World Biden Plans ‘Appropriate Action’ After Myanmar Coup, but U.S. Leverage Is Limited While president says military leaders will be held accountable, punitive measures risk pushing country toward China
2021-02-01 16:13:00 Markets Silver Prices Jump in GameStop-Like Frenzy Biggest one-day gain in more than a decade is latest sign of speculative trading that is jolting financial markets
2021-02-01 16:06:00 Fed’s Kashkari: Fed Shouldn’t Pull Back on Aid Minneapolis Fed chief urges assertive policy response to the pandemic
2021-02-01 16:00:00 Life & Arts Covid-19’s Effects May Linger in Your Body, Even After Asymptomatic Cases Researchers have found abnormalities even in people who didn’t show symptoms, raising questions about possible risks later in life
2021-02-01 15:57:00 Opinion Why Won’t the President Listen to the Experts? Even the Beltway economics establishment is rejecting his diagnosis.
2021-02-01 15:55:00 Economy U.S. Economy Is Expected to Reach Pre-Pandemic Peak by Mid-2021 CBO predicts GDP growth of 3.7% this year, but forecasts output below its potential until 2025
2021-02-01 15:52:00 Life & Arts The Best Super Bowl Food for 2021 From classic wings to a buttery crab dip, we’ve put together the ultimate recipes for watching the big game from your very own couch
2021-02-01 15:13:00 Business Emerson CEO Dave Farr to Retire After 21 Years Manufacturer promotes Lal Karsanbhai to chief executive; Farr to remain chairman until May
2021-02-01 14:59:00 U.S. U.S. Reaches Deal for At-Home Covid-19 Tests The $230 million deal with Australian company Ellume will cover 8.5 million over-the-counter tests
2021-02-01 14:58:00 Markets Wintry Weather Lifts Natural-Gas Prices Futures are 57% higher than a year ago, when the weather was uncommonly warm
2021-02-01 14:37:00 Markets Robinhood Raises Another $2.4 Billion From Shareholders The $3.4 billion raised since last Thursday is more than the company has raised in its entire prior existence
2021-02-01 14:28:00 Markets Exxon-Chevron Tie-Up Not as Crazy as It Sounds The oil megamergers that started in the late 1990s were preceded by circumstances similar to today’s
2021-02-01 14:01:00 World Israel Sends 2,000 Doses of a Covid-19 Vaccine to Palestinians The country is a leader in immunizations but could still be at risk if the virus keeps spreading in the West Bank and Gaza
2021-02-01 13:23:00 Television Review ‘The Investigation’ Review: Police in Troubled Waters An HBO true-crime series dramatizes the search for answers in the 2017 murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall aboard a Danish entrepreneur’s submarine.
2021-02-01 13:20:00 Business Ford to Use Google’s Android System in Most Cars Introduction of Google’s suite of apps in 2023 won’t include models sold in China
2021-02-01 12:55:00 Politics Jan. 6 Rally Funded by Top Trump Donor, Helped by Alex Jones, Organizers Say Publix Super Markets heiress donated about $300,000 to the Ellipse event; far-right show host pledged seed money, organizers say
2021-02-01 12:49:00 Economy U.S. Manufacturing Growth Continued Early in 2021 Surveys of purchasing managers cite product demand as manufacturing continues recovery from pandemic
2021-02-01 12:47:00 Markets Golden Nugget Parent, Private-Jet Operator Wheels Up Join SPAC Frenzy Wheels Up’s deal includes a $550 million private investment from institutional investors, while Fertitta Entertainment has a commitment of about $1.2 billion
2021-02-01 12:41:00 Opinion In Our Hyperpartisan World, Everything’s an Inkblot Beware simple-minded interpretations of complex events like last week’s GameStop disruption.
2021-02-01 12:40:00 Opinion Why Brokers Had to Restrain Trading in GameStop Shares They were minimizing their own financial and regulatory risk, not trying to bail out hedge funds.
2021-02-01 12:25:00 Politics Trump Starts 2021 With $31 Million in Cash for New PAC The political-action committee’s fundraising comes as the former president tries to remain Republican Party leader
2021-02-01 12:23:00 Risk & Compliance Journal New York Bank Fined For Anti-Money-Laundering Law Failures Apple Bank for Savings will pay the FDIC $12.5 million for allegedly failing to comply with the Bank Secrecy Act
2021-02-01 12:01:00 CIO Journal Quantum Computing Scientists Call for Ethical Guidelines Among the potential dangers of misuse: harmful manipulation of the human genome
2021-02-01 11:55:00 Life & Arts Worried About Ageism? Where You Live Matters A recent study found that implicit bias—a subconscious negative attitude—against older people was most prevalent in the Northeast and Southeast. And age bias might affect how older people are treated in the pandemic.
2021-02-01 11:17:00 Tech Facebook to Counter Apple Privacy Update With Its Own Prompt Social-media company plans to show users a screen describing how it uses their data to personalize ads
2021-02-01 10:27:00 Life & Arts Advice for Making the Most of the WSJ Fitness Challenge We answer reader questions about the best way to tackle the six-week exercise regimen, including how to test in and cool down
2021-02-01 10:25:00 Markets GameStop Stock Frenzy May Not Be So Bad for Wall Street While some hedge funds have been hit hard, ‘Wall Street’ writ large could well profit from the GameStop saga
2021-02-01 10:04:00 Politics Stimulus Debate Tests Limits of Democrats’ Election Mandate Republican proposal leaves President Biden standing between his promises of action on the virus and fostering bipartisanship
2021-02-01 09:37:00 Life & Arts The Balaclava—Functional Yet Creepy—Makes a Pandemic Comeback With more Americans wearing masks of all sorts this winter, the full-faced ski mask is back in fashion. Yet, contemporary knitters take pains to make their balaclavas look less off-putting.
2021-02-01 09:03:00 Markets AMC, First Majestic Silver, Viela Bio: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today Reddit users were driving the price of silver higher
2021-02-01 08:51:00 Business Pentagon, NASA Knock Down Barriers Impeding Joint Space Projects The growing collaboration between civilian and military projects—once rare—comes as threats from Russia and China grow
2021-02-01 08:38:00 Markets GameStop Day Traders Are Moving Into SPACs So-called blank-check companies are a hit with individual investors looking for speculative trades
2021-02-01 08:30:00 CFO Journal Salesforce CFO Hands Reins to Successor After More Than Six Years at Helm ‘I think the role has changed a lot,’ Mark Hawkins says as he retires after a 40-year career in finance
2021-02-01 08:12:00 Markets Reddit’s Silver Rush Is Another Symptom of Market Madness Attempts to push up the metal’s price seem guided by mistaken ideas about the depth of this market and the monetary value of precious metals
2021-02-01 08:00:00 Markets Covid-19 Pandemic Motivates Younger People to Buy Life Insurance Applications for life insurance in the U.S. jumped 4% last year, mostly on demand from those under age 45
2021-02-01 07:59:00 World Myanmar’s Coup Derails Fragile Democracy, Posing Test for Biden With Aung San Suu Kyi detained, Western governments face difficult decision about how to respond without pushing the country closer to China
2021-02-01 07:58:00 World Indian Budget Promises More Spending to Recover From Covid-19 Recession Stocks jumped on the news, as New Delhi’s spending plans were larger than investors had expected
2021-02-01 07:42:00 Markets What Nintendo Needs to Keep Hitting High Score The company looks set to surpass its last record earnings year in 2009—but the fact that that was so long ago holds some warnings for the future
2021-02-01 07:27:00 Politics Biden Invites Republican Senators to Discuss Covid-19 Relief Plans The 10 senators proposed a $600 billion plan, as Democrats prepared to advance a $1.9 trillion package without GOP support
2021-02-01 07:00:00 Markets Google’s Cloud Won’t Have Amazon’s Silver Lining Internet giant’s results expected to shed new light on the costs of its cloud business
2021-02-01 06:58:00 Markets Robinhood Needed $3 Billion to Shore Up Volatile Trading in GameStop, Other Stocks CEO Vlad Tenev explained in an interview alongside Tesla boss Elon Musk why the brokerage blocked users from trading
2021-02-01 06:24:00 World Myanmar Military Coup: Why Is Aung San Suu Kyi Being Detained and What’s Happening? The coup deals a major blow to the country’s transition to democracy
2021-02-01 06:18:00 World Exiled Uighurs Fear China’s Reach Will Erode Turkish Haven More arrests, looming extradition treaty and tighter diplomatic ties with Beijing are diminishing the community’s trust
2021-02-01 05:30:00 Business Covid-19 Vaccines to Stress-Test Grocery Stores and Pharmacies CVS, Walgreens, Kroger and others will require appointments, hope to avoid logjams as they join national effort
2021-02-01 05:30:00 Politics Pause in Corporate PAC Spending Triggers Political Pushback Lawmakers say companies’ suspension of campaign donations puts business priorities at risk
2021-02-01 05:30:00 EU Aims to Seal Data-Flow Deals With U.S. and Britain International data flows are in flux as Europe scrutinizes government surveillance in the U.S. and U.K.
2021-02-01 04:32:00 Markets Never Mind the Next Tesla, What’s the Next Model S? Investors have little way to gauge the likely success of new electric-vehicle ventures before they launch their make-or-break products
2021-02-01 04:13:00 Markets Former JPMorgan Banker Acquitted in ‘Sons and Daughters’ Bribery Trial Hong Kong judge acquits Catherine Leung Kar-cheung of bribing a potential client by offering his son a job at the bank
2021-01-31 22:33:00 World Myanmar Military Seizes Power in Coup Civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi detained with other members of her party
2021-01-31 21:58:00 Markets At Least One Central Bank Is Worried About Speculation: China’s China’s short-term lending rates shot up to their highest levels in two years last week
2021-01-31 20:31:00 Politics Trump Adds New Lawyers for Impeachment Trial After Lead Attorneys Exit Shift in the defense team comes a little over a week before the trial is set to begin
2021-01-31 20:00:00 Life & Arts The CIA Fine-Tunes Its Hiring Pitch to Millennials and Gen Z The agency has revamped its recruiting to attract younger workers who might be skeptical of its mission
2021-01-31 18:15:00 Business Exxon, Chevron CEOs Discussed Merger Exxon’s Darren Woods, Chevron’s Mike Wirth spoke last year about combining their companies in what could be among the largest corporate mergers ever
2021-01-31 17:39:00 Opinion The Cost of Climate Indulgences Portland may kill Oregon’s only glass-bottle recycling plant.
2021-01-31 17:39:00 Opinion A Multistate Remote Tax Brawl New Hampshire tries to protect workers from a pandemic revenue grab.
2021-01-31 17:38:00 Opinion Biden’s Covid Spending Choice Will he negotiate with the GOP or jam $1.9 trillion through on a party-lline vote?
2021-01-31 17:28:00 Books ‘The Princess Spy’ Review: A Model Operative The true story (so far as we can know it) of a woman from rural New York who became a highly productive OSS agent in WWII Spain.
2021-01-31 17:24:00 Opinion Another Promising Vaccine, This One From Johnson & Johnson But new variants pose an undetermined threat. The flu-vaccine system can be a model for regulators.
2021-01-31 17:24:00 Opinion Will Biden Choose Paris Over Bismarck and Pierre? To hold his climate vows, he’ll have to downsize the fossil fuels industry aggressively—costing jobs.
2021-01-31 17:23:00 Opinion $20 Says Harriet Tubman Was Conservative She appreciated the first GOP president and carried a gun.
2021-01-31 17:22:00 Opinion How AMLO Is Like Venezuela’s Chávez The spirit of the Mexican president’s government is about centralizing power.
2021-01-31 17:21:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: Covid Death in New York Nursing Homes ‘A larger number of nursing home residents died from COVID-19 than the New York State Department of Health’s (DOH) published nursing home data reflected.’
2021-01-31 17:19:00 Business GameStop and AMC’s Stocks Are on a Tear, but Their Businesses Aren’t Some firms targeted by followers of Reddit’s WallStreetBets forum are grappling with business difficulties
2021-01-31 16:19:00 Opinion Any Stimulus Autopilot Is a Dangerous Idea Automatic government stimulus based on economic growth or unemployment rates opens the door to all sorts of manipulation.
2021-01-31 16:18:00 Opinion Publishers’ Blacklists and Unpopular Speech Every publishing house, newspaper and magazine has the right to choose what is published under its banner.
2021-01-31 16:17:00 Opinion Don’t Trifle With Hard Drugs’ Mighty Power In all my experience with this subject, I have yet to meet one of these “grown-ups” who can manage weekend, or casual, heroin, crack or crystal-meth use.
2021-01-31 16:17:00 Hedge Funds Melvin Capital Lost 53% in January, Hurt by GameStop and Other Bets Citadel, its partners and Point72 took losses from their investment in the hedge fund
2021-01-31 15:39:00 Opinion Religious Liberty Isn’t Enough Cultural conservatives also need to defend our views, which are scientifically sound and popular.
2021-01-31 15:39:00 Opinion Behind the Bitcoin Bubble Manipulative actors have been known to take advantage of the madness of crowds.
2021-01-31 15:00:00 Economy Economy Week Ahead: Factories, GDP, Employment The U.S. employment report for January highlights a full week of economic data
2021-01-31 14:29:00 Politics Ten GOP Senators Push Biden for Smaller Covid-19 Relief Package The proposal comes as Democratic lawmakers prepare to advance the president’s $1.9 trillion plan without Republican support
2021-01-31 13:00:00 Business Covid-19 Lockdowns Spur Shift to High-End Liquor U.S. sales of spirits such as tequila and whiskey have grown at the fastest pace in decades as more Americans drink at home
2021-01-31 12:00:00 Politics Trump Appointees Poised to Influence Legal Outcomes for Decades to Come GOP’s focus on judicial nominees under Trump leaves Biden few appellate-court vacancies to fill
2021-01-31 12:00:00 Life & Arts As Covid Rages, Are You Eligible for Unemployment Benefits If You Refuse a Job? When you’re out of work and get an offer to work at a place that you don’t feel is handling the pandemic safely enough, it can force a difficult decision
2021-01-31 11:00:00 Business Elon Musk’s SpaceX Riles Its Rivals for Broadband Subsidies Competitors say government should think twice about backing SpaceX’s satellite-based system with nearly $1 billion
2021-01-31 10:40:00 World Canada’s Trudeau Pushes Policy to the Left Amid Covid Pandemic The government plans more spending for the elderly, day care and drug costs; new taxes to target ‘extreme wealth’
2021-01-31 10:03:00 Markets All Aboard the Stock-Market Solar Coaster Much of the climb in solar stocks looks justified by growth prospects, but buyers may still be in for a bumpy ride
2021-01-31 10:00:00 Economy Don’t Bank on Covid-19 Killing Off Cash Just Yet Pandemic has sped the decline of cash payments; analysts say it is too soon to know if new habits will last
2021-01-31 10:00:00 Life & Arts How the Kohl’s CEO Is Navigating the Covid-19 Pandemic Chief Executive Michelle Gass shares steps she is taking to prevent staff burnout and steer the retailer through the global health crisis
2021-01-31 09:03:00 Markets Gambling? In the Stock Market? I’m Shocked. Markets have always attracted gamblers. The trick for the economy is to make sure they aren’t the main movers of the market
2021-01-31 09:00:00 Tech Streaming vs. Cable: How to Save Money Watching Live TV Live TV-streaming services have raised their prices but cutting the cord is still cheaper, for the most part, than cable
2021-01-31 08:00:00 Tech Amazon Faces Familiar Opponent in Alabama Union Election The e-commerce giant and retail union previously battled over New York ‘HQ2’ proposal
2021-01-31 07:00:00 Life & Arts How to Go Freelance During the Covid-19 Pandemic As coronavirus accelerates moves to contract, gig and ‘on-demand’ work, here’s advice if you’re considering becoming your own boss
2021-01-31 07:00:00 Pro Bankruptcy Boy Scouts’ Coed Recruiting Touched Off ‘Ground War’ With Girl Scouts The Girl Scouts perceived a grave threat from the Boy Scouts and tried to steer parents away from coed programs, documents show
2021-01-31 07:00:00 Tech Government ‘SWAT Team’ Is Reviewing Past Startup Deals Tied to Chinese Investors National-security panel that gained powers under Trump to become even sharper weapon under Biden
2021-01-31 05:30:00 Markets Markets Look Like They’re in a Bubble. What Do Investors Do Now? Investors see some classic signs of froth, but they are uncertain whether a downfall looms
2021-01-31 05:30:00 Business Some Health-Care Workers Are Still Saying No to a Covid-19 Vaccine Some nurses and other industry employees remain hesitant; officials are concerned because of their influence
2021-01-31 05:30:00 Markets GameStop Frenzy Puts Spotlight on Trading Giant Citadel Securities Firm owned by hedge-fund billionaire Ken Griffin executes orders for Robinhood customers
2021-01-31 02:40:00 World China’s New Covid-19 Outbreaks Trip Up Economic Momentum Demand has taken a hit ahead of the Lunar New Year festival, with people being urged not to travel
2021-01-31 01:00:00 CMO Today Uber Eats Reunites ‘Wayne’s World’ for a Super Bowl Ad The online food-delivery service will meet rival DoorDash on the Super Bowl ad roster
2021-01-30 23:41:00 Politics Lead Lawyers Leave Trump’s Impeachment Defense Team The departures come a little more than a week before the Senate trial is set to begin
2021-01-30 14:55:00 Politics Embattled Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She Has Trump’s Backing Freshman congresswoman has angered colleagues over refusal to wear a mask, past embrace of conspiracy theories
2021-01-30 14:36:00 Politics Patrick Leahy Takes Gavel in Second Trump Impeachment Trial Vermont senator will succeed Chief Justice John Roberts as presiding officer
2021-01-30 12:56:00 Markets TikTok Rival’s $5.4 Billion IPO Draws Big Investor Following Chinese video-app operator Kuaishou Technology targets the world’s largest float since late 2019
2021-01-30 12:01:00 Markets The Real Force Driving the GameStop Revolution Individual traders banded together this past week to move markets like never before. But the buildup to this remarkable moment has been happening for decades.
2021-01-30 12:01:00 Life & Arts Covid-19 Patients Are Doing Their Own Research To advance scientific knowledge of the disease, lay people are organizing to generate data about their experiences
2021-01-30 12:00:00 Economy What’s Driving Everything From a Market Frenzy to an Embrace of U.S. Deficits? Magical Thinking Traders and politicians are making new, risky arguments about low interest rates to justify their actions
2021-01-30 12:00:00 Personal Board of Directors How the CEO of Clif Bar Stays Hungry Sally Grimes, new CEO of the California snack bar maker, relies on some of the food industry’s most accomplished executives for advice on career challenges. She now faces her toughest test yet.
2021-01-30 11:00:00 Markets Banks Brace for Tougher Rules Under Biden on Consumer Protection, Fair Lending Obama-era focus on financial stability gives way to concerns about racial equity, climate change
2021-01-30 10:03:00 Markets Powell Won’t Pop This Bubble (Yet) Stocks are expensive by almost any measure except one favored by the Fed—so don’t expect it to stop this party unless it threatens more collateral damage
2021-01-30 10:00:00 Business Covid-19 Safety Measures, Supply Constraints Crimp Manufacturers Whirlpool and others say challenging logistics, higher costs are curtailing output of in-demand appliances, boats and paint
2021-01-30 09:00:00 Real Estate New Yorkers Who Fled to Hudson Valley Are Buying Local Businesses Proprietors escaping street tensions, coronavirus restrictions are opening shops, renting offices and transforming aging inns into chic hotels
2021-01-30 09:00:00 Tech From Pinterest to Fitbit, No App Is Truly Kid-Safe. Here’s What Families Can Do. Porn and creeps can find a way into apps that seem safe, but there are ways to empower kids to block and report the bad guys
2021-01-30 08:30:00 WSJ. Magazine From Fendi to Christian Dior: The 14 Best Couture Looks of the Season Hundreds of hours of work went into this season’s boldest fashions. WSJ. picks the top looks from the Spring 2021 couture shows.
2021-01-30 08:07:00 Politics Jan. 6 Rally Funded by Top Trump Donor, Helped by Alex Jones, Organizers Say Publix Super Markets heiress donated about $300,000 to the Ellipse event, organizers say
2021-01-30 08:00:00 World How the U.K. Became World Leader in Sequencing the Coronavirus Genome U.S. is catching up but most countries are way behind; Britain alerted world to new variant
2021-01-30 07:00:00 Music Review Songs for Shut-Ins New releases by Langhorne Slim, Selwyn Birchwood and Rod Abernethy reflect the current moment.
2021-01-30 07:00:00 Markets Some GameStop Investors Got In With One Goal—to Pay Off Debt Now with the stock price dipping, the focus turns to when to sell
2021-01-30 07:00:00 Art Review The Staying Inside Guide: The Math Behind Mesmerizing Islamic Patterns Online videos reveal the numerical logic behind intricate Islamic geometrics.
2021-01-30 07:00:00 Latin America Argentine Finance Minister Seeks $44 Billion IMF Debt Deal Without Belt-Tightening Governing coalition faces internal dissension; leftist Vice President Cristina Kirchner opposes spending cuts
2021-01-30 06:00:00 Logistics Report Mass Vaccination Sites Will Mean Scaling Up Logistics Coordination Managing doses, medical gear and health workers will be key to centralizing inoculation efforts
2021-01-30 05:30:00 Business Older Shoppers Are the Hot New Thing for Consumer Brands Covid-19 and demographic changes have companies targeting consumers they say are increasingly interested in aging well
2021-01-29 20:37:00 Markets Reddit Investors Rage Against Being Shut Out of Hot Stock Trades Like GameStop and AMC Users blame brokerages, hedge funds for week’s snafus
2021-01-29 19:21:00 Opinion Speech and Sedition in 2021 The progressive press decides that dissenters should be suppressed.
2021-01-29 18:57:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Facebook Hires Its First Chief Compliance Officer The social-media company says Henry Moniz, who has been the chief compliance officer and chief audit executive at ViacomCBS, will start on Feb. 8
2021-01-29 18:31:00 Opinion No Good Vaccine Deed The Biden team shows no gratitude to the man who sped up the Covid shots.
2021-01-29 18:25:00 CIO Journal Nasdaq Tech Chief Credits Cloud With Helping Manage Market Frenzies Cloud-based computing capacity helps the exchange quickly adjust to wild market swings
2021-01-29 18:23:00 Opinion Hong Kong’s Escape Routes Beijing retaliates after Britain offers refuge from growing tyranny.
2021-01-29 18:22:00 Opinion A Pass for Kevin Clinesmith A FISA judge gives a former FBI agent a slap on the wrist.
2021-01-29 18:13:00 Politics Businessman Bernie Moreno Likely to Enter Ohio Senate Contest Longtime donor is one of several Republicans considering a bid to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Rob Portman
2021-01-29 18:10:00 Books Politics: Of Markets and Morals Determining how much to regulate the freedom to buy and sell touches deep questions of value.
2021-01-29 18:00:00 Markets Day-Trader Mania Will Challenge SEC Under Gensler, Biden’s Choice for Chairman Marriage of social media and online-trading platforms brings more investors in to the market but amplifies risks
2021-01-29 17:57:00 Opinion GameStop Was an Enjoyment of Crowds Players weren’t ‘investors’ and they didn’t invent a new road to prosperity and wealth creation.
2021-01-29 17:55:00 Opinion They Want to Put a Highway in Lead Belly’s Backyard A plan to extend I-49 through a historically black neighborhood has divided Shreveport, La.
2021-01-29 17:10:00 Tech Elon Musk Joins GameStop Melee With More Jabs at Short Sellers Tesla CEO can trigger gains in other companies’ shares, though they can be fleeting
2021-01-29 16:34:00 World France’s Macron Calls for Regulation of Social Media to Stem ‘Threat to Democracy’ French leader says West needs to act to rein in political extremism
2021-01-29 16:24:00 Life & Arts Gold Rush This whiskey sour variation looks particularly dashing served with a large chunk of ice
2021-01-29 16:18:00 Life & Arts Black Market Sling Developed by bartender Phil Ward for Death & Co., this versatile drink works with multiple spirits
2021-01-29 16:14:00 World After Nearly Seven Years Held Captive by Boko Haram, a Chibok Girl Manages to Escape Officials say young woman was in group liberated from jihadist kidnappers by military offensive
2021-01-29 16:14:00 Markets Stocks Close Down 2% as GameStop Frenzy Continues Dow, S&P 500 end worst week since October with sharp declines
2021-01-29 16:13:00 Life & Arts Southside This drink is also refreshing lengthened with ice and soda water, in what’s known as a Southside Fizz
2021-01-29 16:08:00 Life & Arts Manhattan “It’s a classic for a reason,” Mr. Buhler said, citing this drink’s “simplicity and straightforward flavor profile”
2021-01-29 15:48:00 Masterpiece Sounds From the Future Arnold Schoenberg’s ‘Pierrot Lunaire’ (‘Moonstruck Pierre’) so defied the melodic conventions of classical music that its premiere ended in violence.
2021-01-29 15:46:00 Opinion FISA vs. Liberty A surveillance judge clarifies that the FBI can falsify evidence without much fear of punishment.
2021-01-29 15:20:00 Markets Letter to Pimco Execs Alleges Discrimination Toward Women Employees Former, current female employees request better pay and promotions for women
2021-01-29 15:09:00 World Pakistan to Challenge Order to Release Man Convicted in Murder of Daniel Pearl Attorney general says authorities will pursue legal options to keep Omar Sheikh in prison after Supreme Court ruling
2021-01-29 15:00:00 Markets Chevron Emerges From Exxon’s Shadow Chevron’s careful strategy has helped it stay off radars of activist investors and regulators
2021-01-29 14:59:00 Life & Arts Are Fancy Cocktails Worth the Fuss? A Guide to the WFH Happy Hour With a capsule bar of just three bottles, you can make innumerable drinks. But for some, even that is asking too much. Two tipplers debate: Do we really have the bandwidth to mix a proper cocktail right now?
2021-01-29 14:42:00 Tech GameStop, Bitcoin and QAnon: How the Wisdom of Crowds Became the Anarchy of the Mob Thousands of Americans are being mobilized by social-media algorithms that amplify fringe ideas. The results have real-world impact.
2021-01-29 14:40:00 Politics After Scripted Rollouts of Executive Orders, Biden’s Task Gets Harder President has spent his first 10 days on preplanned policy moves, but now he has to negotiate a Covid-19 aid package on Capitol Hill
2021-01-29 14:34:00 U.S. FBI Lawyer Who Pleaded Guilty to Altering Document Sentenced to Probation Kevin Clinesmith is only person charged in Justice Department probe of surveillance of 2016 Trump campaign
2021-01-29 14:20:00 Markets Cryptocurrency Platforms Struggle With Demand From WallStreetBets Fervor Coinbase’s website went down on a day of intense trading in cryptocurrencies
2021-01-29 14:08:00 Politics Frank Biden, President’s Brother, Draws Scrutiny for Work with Law Firm White House says the president is committed to having an ethical administration after questions about his younger brother’s business dealings
2021-01-29 14:00:00 Opinion The Constitution Can Crack Section 230 Tech companies think the statute allows them to censor with impunity. The law is seldom so simple.
2021-01-29 13:59:00 Markets SEC to Review Brokers’ Restrictions on GameStop, AMC Trading Securities regulators say they are on the lookout for potentially manipulative trading
2021-01-29 13:58:00 Opinion James Baldwin’s ‘Cultural Appropriation’—and Mine The great black novelist wrote about whites, but white novelists of his day didn’t return the favor.
2021-01-29 13:47:00 World AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 Vaccine Wins EU Green Light Amid Controversy Approval is unlikely to quell growing political furor over the shot’s effectiveness, production problems and availability
2021-01-29 13:37:00 Life & Arts Why Catalog Brands Like Filson and Lands’ End Are Cool Again A welcome escape from the digital world, those things in your mailbox sell some great stuff—if you know how to shop them. Here, a stylish guide to buying catalog clothes.
2021-01-29 13:27:00 Business Shell Ordered to Pay Compensation Over Nigerian Oil Spills Dutch court also calls for oil giant to install equipment to guard against pipeline leaks
2021-01-29 13:12:00 Markets German Markets Watchdog Chief Dismissed Over Wirecard Scandal Ousting of BaFin President Felix Hufeld follows intense criticism over his handling of accounting scandal
2021-01-29 12:46:00 Markets Reddit-Fueled Stock Rallies Boost Some Bond Prices Bonds tied to AMC, American Airlines and other companies have risen thanks in part to this week’s stock market madness
2021-01-29 12:43:00 Pro Bankruptcy McKinsey Is in Settlement Talks With States Over Opioid Work Potential deal comes on the heels of new documents that detail McKinsey’s work to boost OxyContin sales for Purdue Pharma
2021-01-29 12:42:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Treasury Unit Ends Probe of H.B. Fuller Without Penalty The Minnesota company had disclosed in 2018 that its hygiene products might have been resold into Iran, possibly violating U.S. sanctions against that country
2021-01-29 12:32:00 World Trial Finds South African Coronavirus Strain Poses Reinfection Risks People who have already had Covid-19 can be reinfected by the South African variant, a finding that could impact global fight against the pandemic
2021-01-29 12:31:00 Opinion Impeaching and Trying Ex-President Trump If there are no consequences for subversion and insurrection, it may encourage future presidents to do the same thing.
2021-01-29 12:29:00 Opinion GOP Should Proceed With Newsom’s Recall In none of the examples cited had the recalled officeholder unilaterally closed businesses and kept them closed, bankrupted thousands of businesses and destroy small-business people’s lives.
2021-01-29 12:00:00 Business The New Silicon Valley Perks: Child Care, Financial Planning and Therapy Instead of using food and foosball tables to keep workers at the office as long as possible, tech companies now seek to offer benefits for work-life balance
2021-01-29 11:49:00 Tech Apple’s Privacy Change Will Hit Facebook’s Core Ad Business. Here’s How. New feature on iPhones will limit Facebook’s ability to collect data from apps and prove that ads work
2021-01-29 11:37:00 CFO Journal As Markets Soar, More Companies Turn to Shelf Registrations to Prepare Fundraising Filing the legal paperwork for share sales ahead of time lets companies speed up fundraising in the future
2021-01-29 11:36:00 Books ‘Religion and the Rise of Capitalism’ Review: God and Mammon An economist looks at how the ‘dismal science’ has kept pace with trends in American Christianity.
2021-01-29 11:34:00 World Top Islamic State Leader in Iraq Killed In U.S.-Iraqi Strike Joint operation comes as the Biden administration weighs how to approach Iraq’s security problems
2021-01-29 11:25:00 Markets J&J Vaccine Is Still a Win for the Public Wall Street was disappointed by data from Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus-vaccine candidate, but the shot will play a key role in the public-health effort
2021-01-29 11:23:00 Markets A Tale of Two GameStops Videogame retailer’s actual business has become fully decoupled from high-flying stock, but fundamentals have a way of lasting
2021-01-29 11:19:00 Books ‘Dostoevsky in Love’ Review: Possessed by Words Sentenced and reprieved, exiled and returned, Fyodor Dostoevsky made human suffering the center of his work.
2021-01-29 11:16:00 Books Men, Women, Dogs, Lists & Charts Allie Brosh and Liana Finck explore the painful truths of life in cartoons that are also wildly funny.
2021-01-29 11:12:00 Books Fiction: ‘Fake Accounts’ Review As life goes increasingly virtual, fiction follows it into territory once the domain of the blogger.
2021-01-29 11:10:00 Books Two Books on the Future of Farming Nutritional, environmental and economic priorities collide wherever seeds are sown.
2021-01-29 11:06:00 Books Five Best: Alan Allport on the Year 1940 Selected by the author of, most recently, ‘Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938-1941.’
2021-01-29 10:58:00 Life & Arts The Keto Way: What If Meat Is Our Healthiest Diet? Eating high-fat, low-carbohydrate foods has helped many people battle obesity, diabetes and other health problems—even as livestock agriculture contributes significantly to greenhouse-gas emissions
2021-01-29 10:53:00 Books ‘An Inventory of Losses’ Review: Only a Memory In the fragmentary remains of unique things and places lost to time, a writer finds insights and opportunity.
2021-01-29 10:53:00 Business ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Delivers Ratings Win for HBO Max Movie was most-watched content on streaming platforms during Christmas week, Nielsen says, giving boost to fledging service
2021-01-29 10:50:00 Business FDA Extends Review of Biogen, Eisai’s Alzheimer’s Drug Drug candidate to undergo additional three months of review after panel said data didn’t show it to be effective
2021-01-29 10:50:00 Books Mysteries: ‘Blood Grove’ Review Walter Mosley’s beloved detective comes to the aid of a troubled Vietnam vet—who may or may not be setting him up.
2021-01-29 10:46:00 Books Children’s Books: And the Winners Are… Our columnist takes stock of this year’s Youth Media Awards, including the Caldecott and Newbery medalists.
2021-01-29 10:44:00 Books ‘The Ghost of Galileo’ Review: ‘All Coherence Gone’ A detail in a 17th-century painting inspires a journey into the history of science and the birth of an unsettled new era.
2021-01-29 10:44:00 Business Chevron Posts Quarterly Loss to Cap Worst Year Since 2016 Like its peers, the oil giant endured a tough 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic crushed demand for fossil fuels
2021-01-29 10:35:00 Life & Arts For Teens, a Wild Homeschooling Alternative: A Trip to Costa Rica Costa Rica has been welcoming high-schoolers back for study abroad programs, tweaked for the Covid era. After Zoom classes, playtime ensues.
2021-01-29 10:13:00 Markets The Brewing Battle for Offshore Wind Turbines World-leader Siemens Gamesa faces growing competition from General Electric and Vestas
2021-01-29 09:59:00 WSJ Logistics Report Today’s Logistics Report: Seeking Steady Shipping Trade; Semi Cell Shortage; GM Driving Electric Today’s Top Supply Chain & Logistics News from WSJ
2021-01-29 09:48:00 Tech What’s in the Next iPhone? Check Samsung’s New Galaxy S21 An in-screen fingerprint sensor, faster 120Hz screens and a crazy zoom camera. Samsung’s latest smartphone provides a glimpse at what the next iPhone may look like.
2021-01-29 09:00:00 CMO Today Facebook to Test News Feed Controls for Advertisers Marketers have been pressing for more say-so on what their ads appear next to in the feed
2021-01-29 09:00:00 Politics Repeal of State-Tax Deduction Cap Pitched for Covid-19 Relief Bill Democrats, in control of Congress, see a chance to repeal the $10,000 limit on the state and local tax deduction, but a move may wait until later this year
2021-01-29 08:57:00 Markets Chinese Conglomerate HNA Says Creditors Filed Petition for Its Bankruptcy Development adds to woes of what was once one of China’s most acquisitive companies
2021-01-29 08:55:00 Markets Robinhood Raises $1 Billion to Meet Surging Cash Demands Infusion meant to help company meet rising demands stemming from recent frenzied trading
2021-01-29 08:47:00 Business Eli Lilly Profit Rises, Helped by Covid-19 Drug Sales Antibody drug bamlanivimab brought in world-wide revenue of $871.2 million, contributing much of the company’s 22% quarterly revenue growth
2021-01-29 08:46:00 Economy U.S. Household Spending Fell in December Americans’ incomes rose last month, but spending declined for the second straight month
2021-01-29 08:18:00 Business Insiders at GameStop, BlackBerry, LaCroix Maker Are Suddenly Sitting on Big Stock Gains Reddit-fueled trading in long-struggling companies boost holdings of CEOs and directors, though few have reported cashing in
2021-01-29 08:02:00 Business Caterpillar Flags Signs of Recovery Amid Slack Demand Less construction during the pandemic has hurt machinery sales, but orders have risen
2021-01-29 08:00:00 Business J&J Covid-19 Vaccine Was 66% Effective in Late-Stage Study Based on the positive results, the company plans to seek authorization of the single-dose shot in the U.S. early next month
2021-01-29 08:00:00 Politics Iowa Democrats, Republicans Gear Up to Protect 2024 Caucuses A botched Democratic vote-counting effort in last year’s presidential campaign boosted skepticism about the state’s complex process
2021-01-29 07:56:00 Stocks GameStop Frenzy Causes Glitches for High-Speed Traders Brokers were unable to route investors’ orders to Susquehanna and Wolverine
2021-01-29 07:00:00 Business CEOs Discuss Covid-19, the Economy, Leadership and More The leaders of Tesla, Netflix and Citigroup, among others, describe how business is evolving during the coronavirus pandemic
2021-01-29 07:00:00 Tech Suspected Russian Hack Extends Far Beyond SolarWinds Software, Investigators Say Roughly 30% of victims are said to have no connection to the network-management company’s tainted software
2021-01-29 05:50:00 World China Targets U.K.’s Hong Kong Passports Over Citizenship Plan Country will no longer consider the British National Overseas passport a valid travel document, a move with limited impact
2021-01-29 05:30:00 Politics Senate GOP Campaign Arm Continues to Promote Hawley Event Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley is widely believed to be interested in a future presidential run, though perhaps not in 2024
2021-01-29 05:30:00 Car Makers Seek Ways to Secure Data Needed to Build Connected Services Anonymization, permission systems and other techniques are key to avoid violating EU and U.S. privacy laws
2021-01-29 05:30:00 Is Venture Capital Spreading Across the Country? It’s Not Clear Anecdotal evidence suggests venture money is moving away from the big tech hubs to cheaper pastures. But two reports send conflicting signals on where the sector might be taking root
2021-01-29 05:30:00 Markets For Golf, Covid Is Even Better Than Tiger The socially distant sport got a shot in the arm from the pandemic, and demographic trends could take it to new heights
2021-01-29 05:30:00 Markets China’s Top Bottled-Water Group Swells to an $85 Billion Valuation Nongfu Spring’s profit margins and growth potential have impressed investors and analysts. Exuberance and a shortage of tradable shares have helped, too.
2021-01-29 05:30:00 U.S. How to Reopen Schools? Officials Try Financial Lures and Threats New plans from states and Biden administration deploy carrots—and sticks—to get students back into classrooms
2021-01-28 20:36:00 Politics Defense Chief Holds Up Trump Nominees to Pentagon Boards Lloyd Austin is reviewing policies ‘across the department,’ Pentagon spokesman says
2021-01-28 19:15:00 U.S. Columbus, Ohio, Police Chief Ousted After Officers Killed Unarmed Black Men Mayor’s move also follows criticism of police department for using tear gas on demonstrators
2021-01-28 19:08:00 Business Two Men Lose Latest Attempt to Avoid Extradition in Ghosn Escape Case Federal judge rules against emergency petition by suspects tied to flight from Japan by former auto titan Carlos Ghosn
2021-01-28 18:43:00 Opinion The Polite Way to Say Bidenomics Is Unnecessary This isn’t 2009.
2021-01-28 18:42:00 Business Mondelez Says Its Snacks Gained Share During Pandemic Maker of Oreos and Triscuits booked higher sales, profit in latest quarter
2021-01-28 18:39:00 Opinion The Reddit Wolves of Wall Street A social-media stock bubble is a new version of an old phenomenon.
2021-01-28 18:36:00 Opinion Cancelling Dianne Feinstein In San Francisco, the Senator now ranks with Confederate generals.
2021-01-28 18:34:00 Opinion The Economy Keeps Growing Biden inherits a decent recovery that should surge as the pandemic eases.
2021-01-28 18:25:00 World Colombia Court Accuses Former Rebel Chiefs of War Atrocities Ex-insurgents charged with murder, torture and sexual violence in ruling seen as victory for victims of half-century conflict
2021-01-28 18:19:00 Opinion Rob Portman’s Exit Interview He worries about the Trump trial’s precedent, but he’s bullish to serene on the Republican future.
2021-01-28 18:17:00 Opinion Acquitting Daniel Pearl’s Killer Is Part of Pakistan’s Dance With Jihadism Leaders have promised for decades to defund terrorist groups, but sympathy for radicals remains strong.
2021-01-28 18:16:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: Where Did All the Relativists Go? ‘At the very least, Trump served to convince the left that objective truth does indeed exist and it does make unbending claims on all of us.’
2021-01-28 18:16:00 Opinion Need Discount Debts? Try 50-Year Bonds Long-term Treasurys could give Biden the room to spend big.
2021-01-28 18:15:00 Books ‘The Data Detective’ Review: Broadly Informed, Easily Misled In matters of public health and much else, fact-gathering and statistical analysis can be a vital force for good. But data can also trick us.
2021-01-28 18:14:00 Opinion Joe Biden’s Choice on Religious Freedom Will he build on Trump’s legacy or discard it? Early signs are discouraging.
2021-01-28 18:14:00 Opinion The Senate’s Byrd Call Manchin and Sinema have to do more if they’re serious about saving the filibuster.
2021-01-28 17:58:00 Life & Arts ‘Sea Shanty’: Now It’s Yo, Ho, Ho and a TikTok Duet The video-sharing app has spurred an unlikely revival of 19th-century sailors’ songs
2021-01-28 17:55:00 CFO Journal CarParts.Com Executives Say Additional Capital Is Always Welcome ‘If I could raise money at $300 a share, I will do it in a heartbeat,’ said Lev Peker, CEO of the car parts business
2021-01-28 17:32:00 Opinion Fafsa Should Be Universal for College Entry If we want higher education to act as an engine of economic and social mobility, we need to know if colleges are enrolling a socioeconomically diverse student body.
2021-01-28 17:31:00 Opinion Insurance Rates Show LNG Shipment Is Safe Claiming that LNG poses an unreasonable safety risk is wrong—nothing could be further from the truth.
2021-01-28 17:30:00 Opinion Be More Accurate in Assessing GOP’s Future Just how large is the far right in the Republican Party or among conservatives?
2021-01-28 17:13:00 Politics McCarthy Tries to Mend Fences With Trump House GOP leader, who criticized the former president over Capitol riot, discusses 2022 election goals with him in Florida visit
2021-01-28 16:47:00 Business American, Southwest Post Record Losses Amid Covid-19 Crisis U.S. airlines lost nearly $35 billion last year as the coronavirus pandemic decimated travel
2021-01-28 16:39:00 Markets Coinbase Global Intends to Go Public Via Direct Listing Company is latest to forgo traditional public-offering process
2021-01-28 16:38:00 Markets Silver Surges as GameStop Day Traders Move Into Other Assets Futures prices and shares of silver miners climbed
2021-01-28 16:38:00 Television Review ‘The Lady and the Dale’ Review: Running on Fumes An HBO documentary looks under the hood at the life of Elizabeth Carmichael, a transgender woman who launched a fraudulent auto company.
2021-01-28 16:36:00 Film Review ‘The Little Things’ Review: Grime Doesn’t Pay Denzel Washington and Rami Malek play cops tracking a serial killer in John Lee Hancock’s grim thriller.
2021-01-28 16:34:00 Television Review ‘Palmer’ Review: Acceptance and Self-Acceptance In his best performance yet, Justin Timberlake plays an ex-con who finds himself the surrogate dad to a struggling kid.
2021-01-28 16:33:00 Film Review ‘The Dig’ Review: Unearthing a Glittering Tale Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan star as the duo behind a major archaeological discovery, a real event that astounded British scholars on the eve of World War II.
2021-01-28 16:11:00 Opinion Europe’s Self-Defeating Vaccine Fight The EU blows its rollout and blames a pharmaceutical firm.
2021-01-28 16:04:00 Logistics Report Tesla Says Battery-Cell Squeeze Strains Semi Truck Production CEO Elon Musk says the electric car maker is ‘extremely confident’ about its ability to produce long-range big rigs with batteries
2021-01-28 16:04:00 Pro Bankruptcy Express Shares Retreat After Trading Resumes Buying frenzy from individual investors had sent clothing retailer’s shares soaring
2021-01-28 16:02:00 Business GM to Phase Out Gas- and Diesel-Powered Vehicles by 2035 Auto giant’s plan to eliminate tailpipe emissions is part of a goal to be carbon neutral by 2040
2021-01-28 15:51:00 Markets GameStop Trading Restrictions Blamed on Wall Street’s Clearing Firm by Online Broker A number of brokerages have limited trading in a handful of popular stocks
2021-01-28 15:46:00 CIO Journal Augmented Reality Gets Pandemic Boost Whether to fix cars or apply makeup, companies hamstrung by the pandemic found immediate uses for the distanced expertise AR technology can provide
2021-01-28 15:33:00 Life & Arts Genesis GV80: A Glitzy Debut in the Luxury SUV Market The new GV80—the inevitable SUV from Hyundai’s premium brand—takes a maximalist, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach to cabin design, writes cars columnist Dan Neil.
2021-01-28 15:00:00 Markets Qualtrics Shares Jump in Trading Debut Software company’s opening price values it at approximately $24.5 billion
2021-01-28 14:53:00 Life & Arts Dogs Are Their Own Drying Machines Thanks to twistable spines and loose skin, canines and other animals can efficiently spin water off their bodies.
2021-01-28 14:49:00 Books Bestselling Books Week Ended January 23 With data from NPD BookScan
2021-01-28 14:42:00 Markets Wall Street Hedge Funds Stung by Market Turmoil The pain that has afflicted Melvin Capital Management and Maplelane in recent days is spreading
2021-01-28 14:25:00 Life & Arts Where to Find the Best Cabernets for $25 and Under The short answer is the Margaret River region of Western Australia. But, after some searching, our wine columnist found a few delicious and affordable Cabs from California, too.
2021-01-28 14:25:00 Tech Facebook’s Oversight Board Overturns Some Content Decisions in First Rulings The 20-person panel notes issues with company’s use of algorithmic moderation
2021-01-28 14:06:00 World Vaccine Shortage Derails European Inoculation Drive In latest blow, German government advisors say AstraZeneca’s shot shouldn’t be administered to people over 65 years of age
2021-01-28 13:54:00 Markets WeWork in Talks to Combine With SPAC or Raise Money Privately A deal could value the company at some $10 billion
2021-01-28 13:30:00 Markets Robinhood, Other Brokerages Restrict Trading on GameStop, AMC Amid Frenetic Trading Move comes amid extreme volatility this week as once-unpopular stocks have soared
2021-01-28 13:18:00 World As Israel’s Right Splinters, Netanyahu Is Challenged by Former Protégé Fatigue with Netanyahu’s long rule has encouraged Gideon Saar to challenge his former mentor in March’s election
2021-01-28 13:09:00 World Alexei Navalny’s Request to Leave Jail Denied by Russian Court Ahead of Protests Authorities also extended their crackdown on the Kremlin critic’s inner circle
2021-01-28 13:06:00 Opinion Will Biden Restore ‘Charitable’ Shakedowns? He’s ordered a review of a Trump policy against settlement payouts to favored third parties.
2021-01-28 13:05:00 Opinion Italy’s Question Is Ours, Too: Who Will Spend the Covid Cash? A government falls amid stimulus fights. Expect Rome’s political disease to spread elsewhere.
2021-01-28 12:59:00 Markets Will the Real Robin Hood Please Stand Up? Charity backed by hedge-fund honchos lambasted by Reddit crowd
2021-01-28 12:56:00 Life & Arts The Original Victims of Cancel Culture Roman emperors and modern dictators have feared the social and spiritual penalties of excommunication.
2021-01-28 12:55:00 Arts Botticelli Portrait of a ‘Young Man Holding a Roundel' Sells for $92.2 Million Sotheby’s sale breaks artist’s record, could buoy struggling art market
2021-01-28 12:39:00 Markets Facebook Undercuts its Own Apple Argument Social network’s forecast suggests Apple’s upcoming privacy update will have little impact
2021-01-28 12:01:00 Markets Insurer Looks to Shorten Time From Car Wreck to Body Shop Hartford Financial joins with a tech startup to use artificial intelligence to estimate repair costs
2021-01-28 12:01:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Corruption Contributing to Public Health Crisis, Anti-Graft Group Says U.S. takes another hit in Transparency International’s rankings
2021-01-28 12:00:00 Tech Apple to Roll Out Privacy Measures Despite Facebook Objections Feature set for spring release will allow ad tracking only if consumers opt in on iPhone or iPad
2021-01-28 11:59:00 Markets U.S. Economy Faces Uphill Climb at Start of Year The fourth quarter’s growth was concentrated at the start of the quarter, leaving the economy in a weak position now
2021-01-28 11:46:00 World As Poland Abortion Law Takes Effect, Women Protest More demonstrations are planned after restrictions on terminating pregnancy grow tighter
2021-01-28 11:41:00 Markets American Airlines’ Results Are Terrible. That Is Great News for Its Stock Price. There may be no greater gift for a company than dismal finances these days
2021-01-28 11:28:00 Life & Arts Post-Covid, These New European Hotels Will Be Worth the Wait A castle in Umbria, a palace in Lisbon, a maximalist retreat on Paris’s Left Bank. When Europe opens to Americans again, these buzzy new hotels will be worth pouncing on.
2021-01-28 11:25:00 Shipping Matters Ship Operators Seek Calmer U.S. Trade Waters Under Biden Carrier executives say sanctions, trade turmoil under Trump undercut planning and fueled uncertainty in maritime operations
2021-01-28 11:24:00 Markets German Regulator Reports Employee for Suspected Wirecard Insider Trading Criminal complaint from BaFin comes after it let staff trade shares of the company during investigation
2021-01-28 10:00:00 World Stan Kurland Escaped Wreckage of Countrywide Financial Cautious executive, who has died at age 68, clashed with Angelo Mozilo and left to found a successful mortgage lender, PennyMac
2021-01-28 09:57:00 Politics For Biden, Iran Presents a Tough Road From Promise to Policy President’s team confronts a thicket of complications in its goal of a renewed nuclear deal and follow-on accord
2021-01-28 09:53:00 Markets Diageo Came Prepared to U.S. Drinking Party U.K.-based liquor company is reaping the benefits of buying high-end brands like Casamigos tequila
2021-01-28 09:18:00 Real Estate How to Decorate With ‘Old Money’ Tastefulness Designer Carleton Varney offers advice on emulating the look of the famously posh bathroom of heiress Doris Duke
2021-01-28 09:00:00 Markets British Hedge Fund Billionaire Takes Climate Fight to S&P 500 Christopher Hohn’s campaign targets Alphabet, Union Pacific, Monster Beverage, Booking Holdings and others
2021-01-28 08:59:00 Pro Bankruptcy Silver Lake Converts AMC Debt to Equity After Dazzling Stock Rally Private-equity firm converts its $600 million debt into equity following this week’s remarkable stock rally
2021-01-28 08:56:00 Politics White House Not Planning to Split $1.9 Trillion Covid-19 Package in Two Decision comes amid mounting opposition from Republicans and centrist Democrats who say the plan is too costly
2021-01-28 08:53:00 U.S. Biden’s Freeze on Drilling Leases Disrupts New Mexico State lawmakers, businesses try to figure out how suspending new federal drilling leases could undercut the oil-dependent economy and budget
2021-01-28 08:51:00 Economy U.S. Economy’s Holiday Increase Not Enough to Ward Off Full-Year Contraction Gross domestic product rose 4.0% in final quarter of last year, as economists expect growth in 2021 once coronavirus pandemic is under control
2021-01-28 08:50:00 World Boris Johnson Takes His Fight Against Scottish Independence to Scotland Pandemic response and Brexit boost support for breaking away from England
2021-01-28 08:44:00 Markets Stock Futures Point to Steady Open; GameStop in Focus Investors were underwhelmed by earnings from Apple, Facebook and Tesla, pressuring tech shares ahead of the market open
2021-01-28 08:43:00 Economy U.S. Unemployment Claims Fell Last Week Proxy for layoffs declined to 847,000 after generally trending higher since November, as Covid-19 infections resurged
2021-01-28 08:43:00 Pro PE Industry News British Judge Grants U.S. Extradition Request for Abraaj Founder Arif Naqvi faces racketeering, fraud, theft and bribery charges in the U.S.
2021-01-28 08:30:00 Markets DoorDash’s Appeal Goes Beyond Food Consumers may be rushing back to their favorite restaurants as the pandemic eases, but convenience should continue to deliver for DoorDash
2021-01-28 08:08:00 Business During Covid-19 Lockdowns, People Went Back to Smoking Decline in cigarette sales stopped last year amid health concerns about e-cigarettes; ‘Trust the devil you know’
2021-01-28 08:04:00 Markets European Regulator Worries Banks Are Ignoring Borrower Troubles ECB says loan-loss provisions for eurozone lenders are lower than models suggest they need to be
2021-01-28 08:01:00 Markets Biden’s Climate Goals Will Boost Ethanol for Now Oil refiners and ethanol producers’ collective pain hasn’t done much to align their interests
2021-01-28 08:00:00 Economy Pandemic Spending Boosts Global Government Debt to 98% of Economic Output, IMF Says Lender of last resort says governments should keep spending to fight the pandemic and its economic fallout
2021-01-28 08:00:00 U.S. Thieves Target ATMs Flush With Cash During Covid-19 Efforts to steal from cash machines surged in 2020; explosives and trucks increasingly used
2021-01-28 08:00:00 CMO Today Walmart Revamps Ad-Sales Business to Expand Its Reach The retail giant is launching advertising technology that lets brands use Walmart data to buy ads outside its digital platforms
2021-01-28 08:00:00 Business Amanda Gorman, Biden Inauguration Sensation, to Publish 1 Million Copies Each of Three Books Penguin imprint to release ‘The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country’ and two other titles this year
2021-01-28 08:00:00 U.S. NYPD Officers to Get Training on Speaking Up Against Bad Policing New program teaches officers to step in when another officer uses excessive force or goes against police department guidelines
2021-01-28 07:49:00 Markets GameStop Surge Tests Scope of SEC’s Manipulation Rules Wild rally fueled by day traders draws comparisons to pump-and-dump schemes
2021-01-28 07:16:00 World France’s Macron, Champion of Paris Climate Accord Abroad, Falls Short at Home French president welcomed U.S. return to the agreement but has struggled to implement it domestically
2021-01-28 07:04:00 Politics Biden to Reverse Abortion Rule Known as Mexico City Policy Many Democrats also want to end Hyde Amendment barring federal funds from going to most abortions; Republicans want to keep it in place
2021-01-28 07:01:00 Business Comcast’s Profit Rises on Broadband-Business Strength Covid-19 pandemic continues to pressure movie, theme-park units
2021-01-28 07:00:00 Business Covid-19 Restrictions Dent McDonald’s Global Business Burger giant’s U.S. sales improved, but higher costs and tighter restrictions hurt profit
2021-01-28 06:57:00 Business Americans Drinking More Tequila at Home Buoys Diageo Liquor giant says sales of Don Julio and Casamigos are helping offset a slump at bars during pandemic
2021-01-28 06:37:00 Markets Beijing’s Risky Assault on China’s Most Famous Billionaire Jack Ma’s experience may have a chilling effect on innovation if Chinese entrepreneurs come to believe a political squeeze is the price of commercial success
2021-01-28 06:00:00 Politics Cecilia Rouse, Tapped to be Biden’s Top Economist, Brings Labor-Market Focus Princeton dean testifies to Senate Banking Committee; would be first Black person to head Council of Economic Advisers
2021-01-28 05:59:00 Markets Samsung Is Raking in Cash; Now It Needs to Spend Some The electronics giant has built up a formidable war chest but it will need to spend heavily to maintain its edge
2021-01-28 05:45:00 Business Ford Adds Made in China Label to the Mustang The Mach-E electric vehicle offers company a chance to boost interest in China after years of sluggish sales
2021-01-28 05:36:00 Tech Apple Comes Out on Top While Huawei Slumps in Smartphone Market Shake-Up With iPhone 12, company has record shipments; U.S. restrictions hobble Chinese firm’s
2021-01-28 05:30:00 Politics Biden Plan to Order Review of Trump Health-Care Policies Likely to Face Speed Bumps Medicaid work requirements enacted during the previous administration are already in court, complicating any quick reversals
2021-01-28 05:30:00 Markets Emerging-Market Borrowing Boom Sparks Concerns Over Debt Loads Even small, fragile economies have issued debt this year at ultralow borrowing costs, thanks to substantial investor appetite
2021-01-28 05:30:00 Health-Tech Startups Jump Into the Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout Companies are creating platforms to efficiently shepherd those eligible through the vaccination process, as well as tracking vaccine supplies and even running vaccination sites
2021-01-28 05:30:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Biden Regulatory Freeze Affects Some Proposed Anti-Money-Laundering Rules The freeze could give companies and industry groups more time to study the proposals, observers said
2021-01-28 05:00:00 CFO Journal IASB Wants Some Utilities, Transportation Firms to Provide More Disclosures Regulated companies in many countries would have to add details to their balance sheets
2021-01-28 03:13:00 World Top Pakistan Court Acquits Man Convicted of Killing WSJ Reporter Daniel Pearl Omar Sheikh cleared of any role in kidnapping and killing after 18 years in prison
2021-01-27 22:46:00 Tech Samsung Profit Rises 26% on Continued Pandemic-Driven Demand Challenges include imprisonment of leader Lee Jae-yong and fiercer competition
2021-01-27 22:11:00 Markets Reddit’s WallStreetBets Forum Briefly Goes Dark Moderators for the popular Reddit forum cite technical difficulties, spike in users
2021-01-27 21:21:00 CIO Journal SAP CEO Shares New Plans to Boost Cloud Adoption Christian Klein discusses a new subscription service aimed at helping customers migrate to the cloud
2021-01-27 20:48:00 Markets Tesla’s Stock Is the Original GameStop Disappointing fourth-quarter earnings highlight the reality that Elon Musk’s car company will struggle to justify its valuation
2021-01-27 20:33:00 Markets American Financial to Sell Annuity Business to MassMutual for $3.5 Billion American Financial to exit from the fixed and indexed annuity market
2021-01-27 20:07:00 Pro Bankruptcy AMC’s Pandemic Survival Gets Boost From Trading Mania The cinema giant’s new designation as a message board meme stock positions it to raise more equity capital to outlast the pandemic
2021-01-27 20:07:00 CFO Journal Stock-Market Frenzy Offers Some CFOs a Chance to Cash In However, tapping the equity market can take time and present risks
2021-01-27 19:43:00 Markets Facebook’s Fear Factor Is Overblown Tech stocks’ gyrations and several looming challenges left the social network’s investors unimpressed with a strong quarter and encouraging near-term trends.
2021-01-27 19:28:00 CIO Journal New York Tech Startups See Jump in Funding Activity Enterprise tech is increasingly defining the city’s startup scene
2021-01-27 19:24:00 Business Las Vegas Sands Will Abide by Founder Sheldon Adelson’s Vision Chief Executive Rob Goldstein says investments in Asia, expansion in U.S. are next
2021-01-27 19:04:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Publicis Groupe’s Epsilon to Pay $150 Million to Resolve Customer-Data Case Alliance Data Systems, Epsilon’s previous owner, agreed to indemnify Publicis
2021-01-27 18:51:00 Politics Twitter Personality Charged with 2016 Election Interference Federal prosecutors say Douglass Mackey, tweeting as Ricky Vaughn, tried to trick people into casting ineligible votes for Democrat Hillary Clinton
2021-01-27 18:38:00 Opinion The Two-Track Jobs Recovery Job losses in 2020 were far higher in states that loved lockdowns.
2021-01-27 18:35:00 Opinion Biden Defunds the States His oil and gas drilling moratorium is an assault on school funding.
2021-01-27 18:33:00 Markets Apple’s Blockbuster Results Play to a Tough Crowd Record-breaking quarter comes as stock has already reached a record high valuation
2021-01-27 18:30:00 Opinion Schumer and His Shadow The Senate leader echoes AOC in calling for a climate ‘emergency.’
2021-01-27 17:56:00 Politics Some Senators Push Censure as Alternative to Trump Trial Amid little GOP support for a conviction, Collins and Kaine seek support for formal condemnation of former president’s actions
2021-01-27 17:51:00 Opinion Biden’s First Week Was a Race to the Left The new president’s actions don’t suggest he’s interested in bipartisan progress.
2021-01-27 17:50:00 Business New York Times Taps Editor to Oversee Audio Unit After ‘Caliphate’ Controversy Cliff Levy is promoted to deputy managing editor, will develop procedures for vetting audio content in interim role
2021-01-27 17:50:00 Opinion The Big Tech Crackdown Is a Gift to Parler The losses from finding new servers will be dwarfed by the gains from all the free publicity.
2021-01-27 17:49:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: A Program for Deprogramming After Trump ‘The number of Americans who need to be deprogrammed is in the ‘millions.’’
2021-01-27 17:49:00 Opinion If You Watch TV, the Signs Are Everywhere It all adds up as Paramount+ joins Disney+, Apple TV+, ESPN+ and others.
2021-01-27 17:48:00 Opinion Joe Biden’s Rule of Law Problem Without resistance, the U.S. is tipping toward the mob style in politics—on the left and right.
2021-01-27 17:47:00 Books ‘Earth’s Wild Music’ Review: Listening for Nature’s Melody In the face of extinctions, a writer’s call to cherish the voices that make a symphony out of the natural world.
2021-01-27 17:01:00 Microsoft’s Security Business Swells to $10 Billion Cloud providers are increasingly competing for cybersecurity spending
2021-01-27 16:53:00 Markets Fed Needs a Poker Face to Avoid Taper Tell Federal Reserve faces a challenge in how it will eventually communicate an exit strategy with the market
2021-01-27 16:52:00 Markets GameStop Is a Bubble in Its Purest Form It is tempting to see GameStop’s soaring stock as merely the result of clownish behavior in a chat room. That would be a mistake.
2021-01-27 16:44:00 Politics Biden Pick for U.N. Envoy Expresses Regret for China Speech Linda Thomas-Greenfield largely agrees with Senate panel on international policies, expresses concern about China’s ‘malign force’
2021-01-27 16:42:00 Middle East Saudi Arabia’s Ousted Spymaster Is Accused of Embezzling Billions Lawsuit filed in Canada by a Saudi state-owned conglomerate targets a longtime ally of the kingdom’s former crown prince
2021-01-27 16:37:00 Art Review ‘The Met Unframed’ Review: Phoning It In The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s digital show feels more like an ad for a telecom company than a virtual exhibition.
2021-01-27 16:33:00 Business Facebook’s Ad Business Lifts Social Media Giant to Record Revenue Company posts revenue of $28.07 billion, up from $21.08 billion in final quarter of 2019
2021-01-27 16:08:00 Politics Biden Makes New Push to Address Climate Change Executive orders aim to suspend new oil and gas leases on federal land, commit government to conservation and other initiatives
2021-01-27 16:02:00 National Security Biden Freezes U.S. Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia, U.A.E. The administration is reviewing weapons transactions approved by former President Trump
2021-01-27 16:00:00 Life & Arts Potato, Onion and Smoked Beef Pie Frozen phyllo makes this recipe a snap. It’s pure cold-weather comfort, on the table fast.
2021-01-27 15:45:00 Life & Arts A Surprisingly Simple Beef and Potato Pie Frozen phyllo makes this recipe a snap. It’s pure cold-weather comfort, on the table fast.
2021-01-27 15:44:00 World EU Clashes With AstraZeneca Over Covid-19 Vaccine Shortfall Bloc says drugmaker must supply vaccine from U.K. factories to meet agreed-upon deliveries, if needed
2021-01-27 15:30:00 Opinion This Week in Cancel Culture Dozens of names will disappear from San Francisco school buildings.
2021-01-27 15:28:00 Music Review ‘Artlessly Falling’ by Code Girl Review: Crooning Couplets Guitarist Mary Halvorson branches out from her hallmark improvisation on an album that melds her poems and musical compositions.
2021-01-27 15:28:00 Opinion When Biological Boys Compete With Girls Perhaps no issue encapsulates the hypocrisy of the far-left agenda than putting the needs of the few—transgender girls—above those of the many—biological girls.
2021-01-27 15:26:00 Opinion Unity and Killing the Keystone XL Pipeline Canadians have known for decades that in dealing with America, the rules may change midgame or that Americans may disregard the rules entirely if it suits them.
2021-01-27 15:25:00 Opinion There Were Steam Engines Before Wireless Chargers Civil engineers working for the railroads came up with under-way (without stopping) water replacement.
2021-01-27 15:23:00 Politics Biden Takes Hands-Off Approach to Trump Impeachment New president has barely weighed in on trial of his predecessor, though it could hamper his agenda
2021-01-27 15:16:00 Screen Time What to Watch: Denzel Washington on HBO Max; Ralph Fiennes on Netflix This week streamers offer the psychological thriller ‘The Little Things’ and the historical drama ‘The Dig.’ Plus, Spotify leans into big talent to voice classic books.
2021-01-27 15:08:00 U.S. Man Pleads Guilty to Plotting to Kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Defendant is one of six charged in alleged scheme FBI says it foiled last year among domestic extremists targeting Democratic official
2021-01-27 14:42:00 Business Fiat Chrysler Reaches Settlement With U.S. Over Union Corruption Auto maker’s U.S. division agrees to plead guilty to a criminal charge and pay $30 million fine for violating labor laws
2021-01-27 14:30:00 Opinion How Economics Lost Itself in Data Today’s researchers have tossed out price theory and don’t realize they’ve been politically compromised.
2021-01-27 14:30:00 We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom and Illustrator Michaela Goade
2021-01-27 14:29:00 Opinion A Genocide Test Faces the West We know what China is doing in Xinjiang. It’s now official. How will woke corporations react?
2021-01-27 14:10:00 Economics Blog Parsing the Fed: How the January Statement Changed From December
2021-01-27 13:32:00 Business What Roz Brewer, New Walgreens CEO, Will Bring to the Job The longtime retail executive will become the only Black woman to lead a Fortune 500 company
2021-01-27 13:15:00 Markets Biden’s Energy Orders: Peril and Profit A flurry of executive orders from the Biden administration has resulted in a wider selloff in the energy industry
2021-01-27 13:08:00 Politics DHS Issues National Terrorism Alert for Domestic Extremists Alert is department’s first in a year, warns that some extremists may be motivated by Jan. 6 attack
2021-01-27 13:03:00 Markets Outages Continue to Plague Online Brokerages Schwab, Vanguard, Fidelity and others reported new service disruptions
2021-01-27 13:00:00 CMO Today GM to Run a Corporate Super Bowl Ad Touting Electric Vehicles A new electric vehicle from Cadillac also gets a spot on the game’s ad roster
2021-01-27 12:00:00 Business Exxon Planning Board, Other Changes Amid Activist Pressure D.E. Shaw Group, Engine No. 1 LLC are the activist investors involved
2021-01-27 11:50:00 Life & Arts Trade Your Sweatshirt for This High-Fashion Trick How cocooning—or wrapping up in swathes of fabulous fabric—can kelp you kick the Covid blues
2021-01-27 11:46:00 Markets Boeing Isn’t Done Stalling Just Yet Quality issues with the 787 and the delay of the 777X until 2023 highlight all the fixes the plane maker needs to make
2021-01-27 10:34:00 Life & Arts Harvard Leads the Ivies in the WSJ/THE College Rankings All eight Ivy League schools are in the top 15 nationwide.
2021-01-27 09:40:00 Markets The Reddit GameStop Bubble Is Just a Game—for Now Online-forum punters have exploited a quirk to push up some unloved stocks. The risk is that investors start believing the share prices imply real-world prospects.
2021-01-27 09:12:00 Markets The GameStop Short Squeeze Shows an Ugly Side of the Investing World Short sellers are thick-skinned, but the nasty comments, insults and threats leveled at them feel like political fights, not investing differences
2021-01-27 09:00:00 Life & Arts The Best and Worst U.S. Airlines of 2020 The pandemic made flying tougher on all carriers, but the ones that handled the challenges best tended to be the ones that had outperformed rivals in previous years
2021-01-27 08:55:00 Economy Demand for U.S. Durable Goods Eased in December Orders for long-lasting products posted eighth straight month of gains, though December’s 0.2% rise was the smallest since the summer
2021-01-27 08:52:00 WSJ. Magazine Aging in Quarantine? It’s Been Fast and Furious Our skin has become a road map of the past year’s lows.
2021-01-27 08:42:00 World Africa, Ill-Equipped and Without Vaccines, Grapples With a Deadlier Covid-19 Surge More transmissible strains, economic pain and public fatigue conspire to push continent’s death rate above the global average for first time
2021-01-27 08:30:00 Economy Covid-19 Complacency Poses Potential Risk to Global Financial Stability, IMF Warns Investor expectations for recovery, government support have fueled asset prices, raising concerns about excessive risk-taking
2021-01-27 08:29:00 Markets JPMorgan Chase to Launch U.K. Digital Consumer Bank The new bank’s offering, which will include app-based services, is being tested internally
2021-01-27 08:26:00 Politics Biden to Rescind Curbs on Asylum Policy Enacted by Trump President plans to use executive actions to end safe-third-country rule, ‘Remain in Mexico’ program
2021-01-27 08:24:00 Markets Jack Ma’s Ant Plans Major Revamp in Response to Chinese Pressure Fintech giant plans to become a financial holding company overseen by China’s central bank
2021-01-27 08:20:00 Business Boeing Reports Record Annual Loss Aerospace giant has been hobbled by collapse in jetliner deliveries, with the new 777X delayed until 2023
2021-01-27 08:06:00 Economy Job Growth in the South Bucks Losses in Rest of U.S. Payroll totals fell in rest of the country in December while South posted gains in services, manufacturing industries
2021-01-27 08:00:00 Tech Apple’s iPhone 12 May Have Delivered a Record $100 Billion Quarter Delayed arrival of new 5G phones created pent-up demand but gave CEO Tim Cook less time for holiday sales
2021-01-27 08:00:00 Economy Shape-Shifting Virus Threatens Cycles of Illness, Lockdowns Spread of more-virulent and potentially deadlier variants of Covid-19 could slow economic recovery
2021-01-27 08:00:00 Markets Carbon Offsets That Companies Are Gobbling Up Get a Futures Contract CME Group aims to illuminate a fast-growing market that has operated through privately negotiated transactions
2021-01-27 07:53:00 Business AT&T Books $15.5 Billion Charge on DirecTV Unit Legacy television unit weighs on conglomerate even as it adds HBO Max and phone subscribers
2021-01-27 07:34:00 Markets Stock Futures Decline, With Tech Earnings in Focus Tesla, Apple and Facebook are set to post results after the market close and the Fed is expected to leave monetary policy unchanged
2021-01-27 07:22:00 Politics U.S. B-52 Bomber Flies Over Persian Gulf, in Show of Force Against Iran With sixth sortie since November by heavy bomber, U.S. aims to brush back Tehran while Biden settles Iran policy
2021-01-27 07:18:00 Markets Hyundai: Big EV Dreams, Big Profits Now Hyundai looks well placed in the EV race: But in the meantime, it’s racking up the earnings too.
2021-01-27 07:00:00 U.S. Landlord and Tenant Groups Join Forces to Stave Off Evictions Usually adversaries, both push for more government assistance as pandemic housing fix
2021-01-27 07:00:00 TCV Builds $4 Billion Fund With Help From Main Street The technology-focused firm revisits its early days to raise its latest fund
2021-01-27 06:54:00 Markets Blackstone Earnings Rise With Market The value of its private-equity portfolio climbed by 10.6% in the fourth quarter as the S&P 500 rose 11.7%
2021-01-27 06:00:00 Markets Only the Best Luxury Brands Can Hike Prices Louis Vuitton pushed through multiple price increases on its products during the pandemic, an option not available to all its competitors
2021-01-27 05:30:00 Life & Arts It’s Time for Better Masks in Sports Sports leagues spend millions on tests. Public health wishes they’d pay more attention to their masks—and you, too.
2021-01-27 05:30:00 Economy Reluctance to Spend Throttles India’s Growth Long After Covid-19 Lockdowns Ended Consumers helped make the economy the world’s fastest growing. Their willingness to spend will set the course of the recovery.
2021-01-27 05:30:00 CFO Journal Biden’s Candidate for SEC Chairman Is Expected to Be Tough on Companies Gary Gensler could beef up the regulator’s enforcement efforts and push for new disclosure requirements
2021-01-27 05:30:00 Economy Fed Likely to Keep Interest Rates Near Zero as Economy Stumbles Officials are poised to hold policy steady and continue bond buying to bolster growth
2021-01-27 05:30:00 Markets How GameStop’s Reddit- and Options-Fueled Stock Rally Happened The videogames retailer has become a favorite of online traders seeking to make money from buying options
2021-01-27 05:30:00 Markets Elon Musk’s Tesla Expected to Record First Full Year of Profitability Electric-vehicle maker’s performance sent its stock soaring more than 700% last year
2021-01-27 05:30:00 Markets Renewed Demand for Treasurys Quells Fears of Rising Rates—for Now Yields have stabilized after surging on Democratic Senate wins, but sharp increase has alerted investors to threat higher yields pose to riskier assets
2021-01-27 03:03:00 Life & Arts Olympic Official Seeks Biden’s Help to Save Tokyo Games: ‘It’s Up to the U.S.’ Organizers hope a positive message from the U.S. will influence a skeptical Japanese public and reassure countries that aren’t sure about sending athletes
2021-01-26 20:28:00 Opinion No Impeachment Surprise Republicans signal why most will vote against convicting Trump.
2021-01-26 20:08:00 U.S. Wisconsin Pharmacist to Plead Guilty to Attempting to Spoil Covid-19 Vaccine Two federal charges of attempting to tamper with consumer products carry up to 10 years in prison each
2021-01-26 20:07:00 Markets Allstate to Sell Life Insurance Unit to Blackstone for $2.8 Billion Allstate Life Insurance Co. holds about 80%, or $23 billion, of Allstate’s life and annuity reserves
2021-01-26 19:59:00 Markets Microsoft Masters the Cloud Game Software titan’s cloud growth and profit margins accelerate despite intense competition
2021-01-26 19:10:00 Markets Goldman CEO David Solomon Takes $10 Million Pay Cut for 1MDB Scandal The bank had said it would claw back or withhold $174 million in compensation from current, former executives
2021-01-26 19:00:00 Life & Arts What Time Does the Super Bowl Start? The Super Bowl starts at the same time as every year: 6:30 p.m.
2021-01-26 18:59:00 Politics Sen. Patrick Leahy Taken to Hospital for Evaluation Democrat lawmaker is set to preside over the impeachment trial of former President Trump
2021-01-26 18:59:00 U.S. Zappos Founder Tony Hsieh Was Found With Flammables, Drugs and Alcohol Police find no criminality in fire that killed entrepreneur; fire officials say many possible causes
2021-01-26 18:51:00 Business Walgreens to Name Starbucks Executive Roz Brewer as CEO Brewer would replace Stefano Pessina, who would become executive chairman
2021-01-26 18:36:00 Opinion Joe Biden’s First 100 Days Students discuss policies that should gain priority.
2021-01-26 18:34:00 Opinion The Law That Fueled the Capitol Riot Congress has a chance to repeal the 1887 Electoral Count Act.
2021-01-26 18:33:00 Opinion An Immigration TRO for Joe A judge stops his deportation pause after the state of Texas sues.
2021-01-26 18:31:00 Opinion Biden Out-Trumps Trump His ‘Buy American’ rules are even more protectionist.
2021-01-26 18:25:00 Opinion Judge Leahy Impeachment’s presiding officer does not inspire confidence in a fair trial.
2021-01-26 18:24:00 Business Starbucks Notches Improved Sales, Says COO Will Exit Roz Brewer was focused on diversifying the coffee giant’s staff
2021-01-26 18:24:00 Opinion Biden Gives Regulators a Free and Heavy Hand His idea of ‘modernizing’ rules is to assert they have benefits that are ‘impossible to quantify.’
2021-01-26 18:23:00 Opinion If You Want Unity, Defend Scholarships for Poor Kids Washington’s program is a success, and teachers unions want to defund it. What will Biden do?
2021-01-26 18:22:00 Opinion On Immigration, Compromise Beats Amnesty Biden should resist the temptation to go big, and focus instead on solutions with bipartisan support.
2021-01-26 18:20:00 Opinion Solace Is Golden, and Also Amusing The word turns out to have two interrelated meanings: comfort and entertainment.
2021-01-26 18:20:00 Opinion Biden’s Age of Climate Decadence He would literally do everything differently if he really cared about our carbon risks.
2021-01-26 18:19:00 Books ‘Despised’ Review: The Left and the Working Class A British firefighter seeks to revive an ‘early Labour tradition that spoke to the patriotic and communitarian instincts’ of blue-collar families.
2021-01-26 18:13:00 Business Sheldon Adelson’s Casino Empire Installs New Leadership Deputy Rob Goldstein is named CEO and son-in-law Patrick Dumont is appointed president after magnate’s death
2021-01-26 18:00:00 Pro Bankruptcy All-You-Can-Eat Pizza Chain Cici’s Files for Bankruptcy The buffet-style restaurant chain is planning a bankruptcy sale to lender D&G Investors LLC
2021-01-26 17:16:00 Pro Bankruptcy Belk to File for Bankruptcy but Remain Sycamore-Owned Private-equity firm Sycamore Partners is slated to retain its majority stake in the department store chain under a prepackaged bankruptcy
2021-01-26 17:00:00 Politics Biden’s 100-day Pause on Deportations Blocked by Texas Judge Pause announced on the president’s first day in office; judge says it violated Administrative Procedure Act
2021-01-26 16:58:00 Politics Administration to Buy Enough Doses to Vaccinate U.S. Population by End of Summer Biden administration will also boost supply of coronavirus vaccines sent to states by about 16% for next three weeks
2021-01-26 16:44:00 Politics Biden Has First Call With Russian President Vladimir Putin President reaffirmed support for Ukraine’s sovereignty; voiced concern over SolarWinds hack, bounties on U.S. troops and jailing of Navalny
2021-01-26 16:39:00 U.S. Small-Business Owners Promised More PPP Loan Application Help Some borrowers’ first-time PPP applications had been flagged for review, causing delays in second loans
2021-01-26 16:37:00 World Defense Secretary Austin to Review Trump’s Last-Minute Withdrawal of Troops From Afghanistan, Iraq Pentagon’s new chief to examine U.S. strategy in conflicts
2021-01-26 16:24:00 Logistics Report Trucker TFI International Aims to Boost Margins at UPS Freight Newer trucks, higher freight rates planned following $800 million trucking acquisition
2021-01-26 16:24:00 Politics Biden’s Climate Change Policy Targets Oil Industry President to suspend new oil and gas leasing on federal land, setting stage for confrontation with energy sector
2021-01-26 16:20:00 Politics Ahead of Riot, Capitol Police Knew of Potential for Violence, Official Says Acting police chief says department’s board turned down a request for National Guard support two days before the attack
2021-01-26 16:18:00 Politics Biden to Lift Some Curbs on Abortion Funding, Reopen ACA Enrollment President is expected to launch his health-care agenda by reversing two Trump actions, and is likely to seek expansion of health law
2021-01-26 16:16:00 Politics Most Republican Senators Reject Constitutionality of Trump Impeachment Senate votes 55-45 to reject motion from Rand Paul, but tally indicates little support among GOP for conviction
2021-01-26 15:55:00 Business Volkswagen Asks Supreme Court to Block Local Emissions Regulations German auto giant is trying to overturn a lower-court ruling that could open the car industry to oversight from municipalities
2021-01-26 15:43:00 Tech Verizon Internet Outage Disrupts Usage in Northeast Midday network slowdown mars service around New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
2021-01-26 15:35:00 Business New Covid-19 Rules Make International Travel Tougher New virus variants prompt government bans on international flights and U.S. requirement for negative tests
2021-01-26 15:31:00 Opinion For Unity, Biden Must Respect Trump Voters President Biden’s record-setting first day of executive orders contributed to a foreboding sense that red-blue unity was possible only if conservatives moved far left.
2021-01-26 15:30:00 Opinion What Message Is Harvard Sending? Veritas? Harvard is sending an awful message to its students, alumni and donors.
2021-01-26 15:28:00 Opinion Is Now the Time for National Identity Cards? What America needs is the political will and an efficient bureaucratic infrastructure to ensure that the card’s distribution is universally inclusive.
2021-01-26 15:27:00 U.S. Commerce Nominee Pledges Tough China Stance, but Mum on Huawei Blacklist At Senate hearing, Gov. Gina Raimondo wouldn’t commit to enforcing Trump administration’s ban on Chinese telecom giant
2021-01-26 15:19:00 Markets Trading Surge Strains Online Brokerages A flood of individual investors into the stock market has led to temporary outages at some brokerages
2021-01-26 15:11:00 Politics Democrats See Path to Biden’s Covid-19 Relief Bill Without GOP Help Lawmakers turn toward process called budget reconciliation that requires simple majority vote
2021-01-26 15:10:00 Television Review ‘Resident Alien’ Review: Doctor Without Borders On Syfy, Alan Tudyk plays an alien set on destroying the Earth, but first he must disguise himself as a physician, learn to speak English and drink whiskey.
2021-01-26 15:07:00 Politics Biden Signs Executive Order to Phase Out Federal Use of Private Prisons President aims to advance racial equity with a series of actions; ‘we must change’
2021-01-26 15:06:00 Television Review ‘Penguin Bloom’ Review: Adopting and Adapting Naomi Watts stars as a recently-disabled mother whose family takes in an injured magpie.
2021-01-26 15:04:00 Business CBS Suspends TV Station Executives Amid Allegations of Hostile Workplace Peter Dunn and David Friend, who oversee a group of 28 local stations, were put on administrative leave as a probe is conducted
2021-01-26 14:55:00 Politics What to Know About President Biden’s $15-an-Hour Minimum-Wage Plan Congressional Democrats propose phasing in higher pay floor over five years
2021-01-26 14:35:00 Business Washington Post’s Marty Baron to Retire as Executive Editor Newspaper chief to step down at end of February after eight-year tenure
2021-01-26 14:33:00 Life & Arts This Cruise-Ship Comedian Is Used to Tough Crowds. He Misses Them. Adapting to life at sea wasn’t easy for L.A. comic Mike Siegel, then Covid sunk the cruise industry
2021-01-26 14:29:00 Opera Review ‘Soldier Songs’ and ‘Titon et L’Aurore’ Reviews: War’s Wounds and Love’s Arrow A dark opera explores the mind of a veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder; a pastoral comedy features earnest lovers, meddling gods and sheep puppets.
2021-01-26 14:29:00 U.S. FBI Capitol Riot Investigation Shifts Gears Federal law enforcement’s next challenge is building broader conspiracy cases after making arrests on lower-level offenses
2021-01-26 14:01:00 Pro Bankruptcy Beauty Company L’Occitane’s U.S. Subsidiary Files Chapter 11 to Fight Leases The maker of essential oils and soaps is the latest bankruptcy in the retail sector
2021-01-26 13:48:00 Markets Biggest U.S. Banks Embrace ‘Rooney Rule’ Policies in Diversity Hiring Push The agreements are in response to shareholder proposals from AFL-CIO's reserve fund
2021-01-26 13:16:00 Markets Johnson & Johnson Is a Picture of Health, Even Before Vaccine News Johnson & Johnson’s underlying business looks as strong as ever as it awaits late-stage Covid-19 vaccine data expected next week
2021-01-26 13:14:00 Television The ‘WandaVision’ Creator on Being a Female Storyteller in the Marvel Cinematic Universe Launching a Marvel series for Disney+ is the latest step for Jac Schaeffer, whose writing career with comic books took off with ‘Black Widow’
2021-01-26 13:12:00 Economy U.S. Consumer Confidence Ticks Up in January Consumers’ expectations for the economy and jobs brighten, though coronavirus pandemic weakens assessment of current conditions
2021-01-26 13:00:00 Opinion America Can Defend Taiwan More sensors, missiles and other assets in the region will help deter China from a costly island invasion.
2021-01-26 12:59:00 Opinion Does Biden Want a Bill or an Issue? He’ll accomplish more if he makes a realistic to-do list rather than an ambitious wish list.
2021-01-26 12:55:00 Tech Artificial Intelligence Will Define Google’s Future. For Now, It’s a Management Challenge. Google’s parent, Alphabet, has waded through one controversy after another involving its top researchers and executives in the field
2021-01-26 12:43:00 Economy How to Use Your 2020 Tax Return to Claim Stimulus Payments People who didn’t get the full relief payments can get the remainder on their 2020 tax returns—if they qualify
2021-01-26 12:30:00 Markets UniCredit to Pick Andrea Orcel as New CEO He remains in a legal fight with Santander over canceled job offer
2021-01-26 12:28:00 Business Warner Music, Prince Al-Waleed Near Deal Over Saudi Tycoon’s Music Company Len Blavatnik’s Warner and Rotana Music envision sharing artists, producing cross-cultural content
2021-01-26 11:17:00 U.S. Dormant Live-Music Industry Offers Biden Help With Vaccine Rollout Live Nation, AEG, Broadway theaters and independent venues offer concert halls, arenas, theaters and logistics to help vaccinate U.S. population
2021-01-26 11:08:00 Life & Arts A Valentine’s Day Gift Guide for Optimists The best present this year? A bright outlook. Let her see the world through rose-colored glasses and other translucent bits of blush.
2021-01-26 11:06:00 Markets UBS Profit Bonanza Eases Pressure over New Boss Ralph Hamers’s plans for the bank are overshadowed by a Dutch investigation into a money-laundering scandal at his prior employer
2021-01-26 10:00:00 Life & Arts How Making Plans Brings Joy in January As an antidote to the postholiday blues, some stir-crazy families are planning getaways and gatherings to bring some joy back to the winter of discontent.
2021-01-26 09:32:00 Wealth Management Why an Estate Plan Is the Best Gift You Can Give Your Grandchild
2021-01-26 09:17:00 Markets BlackRock’s Fink Urges Companies to Disclose, Do More on Greenhouse-Gas Emissions CEO says he is focusing on the issue because of the risk that climate change poses on investor returns
2021-01-26 09:01:00 Life & Arts Another Big Labor Fight Is Brewing in Major League Baseball With spring training three weeks away, MLB owners want to delay opening day, while the players union prepares for a full season
2021-01-26 09:00:00 U.S. New York City’s Creative Class Faces Health-Care Crunch With Broadway and other theater closures now stretching past 10 months, people in the industry have limited options for keeping their coverage
2021-01-26 09:00:00 Economy U.S. Home-Price Growth Accelerated in November Prices rise at fastest annual pace since February 2014, according to Case-Shiller index
2021-01-26 09:00:00 Business Clydesdales Charge Into a Super Bowl Ad After All—for Sam Adams Boston Beer and GlaxoSmithKline are among firms using ambush-marketing techniques to generate big-game buzz without national-TV commercials
2021-01-26 08:53:00 Business Microsoft Poised for Strong Earnings Boosted by Cloud, Videogaming Demand for Xbox gaming consoles has outpaced supply
2021-01-26 08:51:00 World Freed Ugandan Opposition Leader Bobi Wine Pledges to Continue Fight Soldiers released the rapper-turned-opposition leader from home detention after he lost in the disputed presidential elections
2021-01-26 08:48:00 Business Johnson & Johnson’s Profit Is Boosted by Pharmaceuticals Business Consumer-health products also contributed to a sales increase in the latest quarter
2021-01-26 08:45:00 Markets U.S. Stock Futures Waver After Hitting Fresh Records Starbucks, Microsoft and Texas Instruments will report earnings after markets close
2021-01-26 08:15:00 Tech Twitter is Buying Newsletter Provider Revue Move reflects interest among social-media companies in providing content creators with tools to make money
2021-01-26 08:05:00 Business 3M Expects Sales Growth as Customers Return to Offices, Schools Huge demand for N95 masks was offset last year by lower sales to dentists, office workers
2021-01-26 08:04:00 Markets How to File Taxes if You Worked Remotely in a Different State Here’s how to prepare for the 2021 tax season if you worked across state lines in 2020 because of the pandemic
2021-01-26 08:00:00 Real Estate Lonely Millennials Who Fled Cities During Covid-19 Turn to Co-Living Professionals who gave up urban homes move to shared accommodation and working spaces in smaller towns and rural settings
2021-01-26 08:00:00 World IMF Raises Global Economic Growth Forecast but Says Outlook Remains Uncertain Outlook has been buoyed by hopes for increasing vaccination and improved therapies to combat Covid-19
2021-01-26 07:49:00 Business Verizon Predicts Wireless Growth Despite Covid-19 Pandemic Carrier gained 279,000 postpaid phone connections during holiday shopping season, though fourth-quarter profit fell
2021-01-26 07:42:00 Economy South Korea Demonstrates Asia’s Economic Resilience During Pandemic Strong exports and tight Covid-19 restrictions led to relative strength across the region, but the picture is grimmer in the West
2021-01-26 07:36:00 World Dutch Rioters Clash With Police for Third Night Over Covid-19 Curfew Some 150 people arrested and one policeman injured in clashes
2021-01-26 07:26:00 Business GE Reports Surge in Year-End Cash Flow Conglomerate ended 2020 a year ahead of schedule in turnaround, boosted by orders for power equipment, cost cuts in aviation
2021-01-26 07:18:00 Markets Bubble Watch: Jet Debt May Also Be Flying Too High The aircraft-finance market has opened up again even though jet values remain at risk from the pandemic
2021-01-26 07:01:00 Garrett Motion Shareholders, Backed by General Atlantic Venture, Launch Rival Restructuring Plan An official committee of equity holders proposes a restructuring deal backed by $800 million from General Atlantic’s Atlantic Park venture
2021-01-26 06:56:00 World Israel Offers Glimpse of a World Vaccinated From Covid-19 Even as more people have the shots, Israelis are cautious and restrictions remain in place. ‘The war is still ahead of us.’
2021-01-26 06:52:00 World Italian Prime Minister Conte Resigns, Triggering Search for New Government to Tackle Covid-19, Recession If a governing majority can’t be found, the country will head for snap elections
2021-01-26 06:43:00 World U.K. Coronavirus Variant Probed for Increased Risk to Younger People Public-health officials are racing to understand a strain that is more transmissible and could be deadlier
2021-01-26 06:28:00 Markets GameStop Day Traders Won’t Sack Wall Street The frenetic trading of options by retail investors isn’t large enough to disrupt the primary purpose of equity capital markets
2021-01-26 06:00:00 Life & Arts U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials Will Be Cut in Half Covid concerns will slash the number of athletes at the main event in June, and add a wild-card meet days earlier to give others a chance to qualify
2021-01-26 05:50:00 Business U.S. Mounts a Charge to Take On China, the King of Electric-Vehicle Batteries Sila Nanotechnologies, a Silicon Valley startup, is among the latest to attract Wall Street backing as supply-chain investors see enthusiasm for electric vehicles
2021-01-26 05:36:00 Markets UBS Plans $4.5 Billion Share Buyback as Profit Surges CEO Ralph Hamers faces a probe into his role in a money-laundering scandal during his time at ING
2021-01-26 05:30:00 CFO Journal NRG Energy CFO Focusing on Cutting Costs, Pricing After Direct Energy Deal With $3.6 billion acquisition, NRG doubles the number of its retail customers
2021-01-26 05:30:00 Economy Saved Stimulus Checks Expected to Help Spur Economic Recovery Many households have boosted savings during the pandemic and pent-up demand is expected to propel growth
2021-01-26 05:30:00 Real Estate Rent Collection Is Down, and Apartment Owners Feel the Squeeze Multifamily properties were initially a bright spot during Covid-19, but banks now see more apartment debt as high risk
2021-01-26 05:30:00 Markets Commodities Traders, Producers Earn Cheaper Rates From Banks for Lowering Carbon Production The lending also helps banks meet their own green-investing targets
2021-01-26 04:30:00 U.S. Parents of Remote Learners Have Smaller Roles in U.S. Workforce Students who go to school in-person are more likely to have parents who work full time, new survey shows
2021-01-26 02:29:00 Business Amazon Set to Hire 3,000 Corporate Employees in Boston, Continue U.S. Expansion Tech giant’s plans follow hiring sprees, regional expansions in other cities
2021-01-25 23:00:00 Politics Senate Power-Sharing Deal Moves Ahead McConnell says comments from Democratic senators assuaged his concerns about the filibuster being potentially eliminated
2021-01-25 20:43:00 Pro Bankruptcy Bankruptcy Judge Approves $17 Million Fund for Harvey Weinstein Victims Women who have accused Mr. Weinstein of misconduct are expected to receive hundreds of thousands of dollars or more on average under the chapter 11 settlement
2021-01-25 19:28:00 Politics Article of Impeachment Sent to Senate for Second Trump Trial Proceedings to highlight Republicans’ split over former president’s actions, party’s future
2021-01-25 18:42:00 Opinion Trying Mr. Trump, Private Citizen Democrats want to punish the ex-President but may revive him.
2021-01-25 18:38:00 Pro VC New Money Vimeo Raises $300 Million in Equity, Valuing Company at $5 Billion Oberndorf Enterprises and funds affiliated with T. Rowe Price Associated led the round, which comes just one month after IAC said it intends to spin off the online-video platform
2021-01-25 18:38:00 Opinion Chicago Teachers Union vs. Biden Even a federal bribe isn’t enough to get them back teaching in classrooms.
2021-01-25 18:38:00 Opinion Xi Jinping Wows Them at Davos China’s President sweet-talks liberal leaders as he threatens Taiwan.
2021-01-25 18:23:00 World U.S. Forces Expand Reach in Saudi Arabia In the past year or more, the military has tested new ports and bases as options to use in the event of conflict with Iran
2021-01-25 18:06:00 U.S. NYPD Hunts for a Dozen Suspects in Manhattan Assault A 26-year-old man was robbed and beaten in Chinatown midday Friday
2021-01-25 17:58:00 CIO Journal Software Bots Multiply to Cope With ‘Stretched’ Resources Companies are tapping robotic process automation to streamline operations, meet changing customer needs
2021-01-25 17:44:00 Opinion Biden’s Stimulus Should Stay the Course Spending packages need triggers to sustain aid when the recovery lags and cut it off when things improve.
2021-01-25 17:43:00 Opinion Workers Producing the Vaccine Need Vaccination If my company’s employees get sick, there will be fewer shots for everyone.
2021-01-25 17:41:00 Opinion Closing Time for Bars and Restaurants Few industries have been harder hit by Covid. We need relief.
2021-01-25 17:40:00 Books ‘Stakeholder Capitalism’ Review: The Global, Olympian ‘We’ Nations decide which problems to solve through politics. Global elites already know what problems need solving. Just ask them.
2021-01-25 17:37:00 Opinion Biden’s Opening Salvo on Beijing His administration’s early moves were aggressive, but will it sustain the pressure?
2021-01-25 17:35:00 Opinion Electric Car Quotas Have a High Cost California wants to do it, and Biden wants to help—even though it will violate the law and cost us all.
2021-01-25 16:52:00 Dance Review ‘Duets’ Review: Social Distancing in Tandem Performance artist Elliot Reed and guest collaborators take on Covid-19 restrictions as a formal challenge in a series of improvised works at MoMA PS1.
2021-01-25 16:22:00 Markets Apollo CEO Leon Black to Step Down Following Review of Jeffrey Epstein Ties Independent probe finds Black wasn’t involved in disgraced financier’s criminal activities; Marc Rowan to take over top job by July 31
2021-01-25 16:20:00 Music Review ‘Medicine at Midnight’ by Foo Fighters Review: Inviting More Genres to the Party The rock-focused group returns with an album that expands its sound, incorporating pop, R&B and more.
2021-01-25 16:13:00 World Italy’s Prime Minister Conte Resigns Amid Struggle Against Covid-19 and Recession Resignation could lead to new governing coalition or snap elections
2021-01-25 15:49:00 Markets Citadel, Point72 to Invest $2.75 Billion Into Melvin Capital Management Investments are for non-controlling revenue shares in the hedge fund, which is down nearly 30% for 2021 through Friday
2021-01-25 15:25:00 Business Moderna Developing Vaccine Booster Shot for Virus Strain Identified in South Africa Company says lab tests indicate its Covid-19 vaccine protects against emerging variants of the coronavirus
2021-01-25 15:21:00 Politics Treasury Resuming Efforts to Put Harriet Tubman on $20 Bill Redesign had been pushed by Obama administration but wasn’t completed during Trump’s tenure
2021-01-25 15:17:00 Arts Liam Neeson Is the Secret Weapon for Getting People Into Movie Theaters Between ‘The Marksman’ and ‘Honest Thief,’ the actor stars in two films that have hit No. 1 in Covid-hobbled theaters.
2021-01-25 15:05:00 Opinion Hunter Gets a Bagel Will media cover foreign influence sales as extensively as breakfast purchases?
2021-01-25 14:30:00 World China’s Xi Warns Against Confrontation in Veiled Message to Biden The comments come as the new U.S. administration prepares to rally allies to challenge Beijing on a range of issues
2021-01-25 14:30:00 Politics Watchdog Probes Whether Justice Department Officials Tried to Alter 2020 Election Results Move by Inspector General Horowitz follows reports that Trump pushed DOJ to ask Supreme Court to invalidate President Biden’s win
2021-01-25 14:20:00 Politics GOP Sen. Rob Portman Won’t Seek Re-Election in 2022 Ohio Republican says Washington gridlock influenced his decision not to run again
2021-01-25 14:18:00 Opinion America, It’s Time for ‘Unity’—or Else If you were an enthusiastic Donald Trump supporter, are you ready to enter a re-education program?
2021-01-25 14:16:00 Opinion Small Sites Need Section 230 to Compete Facebook and Twitter can afford armies of lawyers to defend against liability.
2021-01-25 13:57:00 Politics White House Lifts Curbs Against Transgender Military Service Members The move reverses key Trump administration policy
2021-01-25 13:56:00 Media & Marketing Business Insider Did Nothing When the Pandemic Hit. It Worked. Business-news site generated 30% revenue growth in 2020 despite Covid-19 crisis thanks to subscriptions, automated ads
2021-01-25 13:45:00 World Covid-19 Pandemic Pushes Down Number of Refugee Resettlements Many refugees who had waited for years for asylum applications to be approved also had to wait until travel restrictions were eased
2021-01-25 13:40:00 Politics The Center Emerges as Early Biden Testing Ground Can he hold the middle ground or will he be pulled toward the left?
2021-01-25 13:37:00 Opinion Helicopter Money for All Isn’t What We Need The Cares Act wasn’t entirely humanitarian aid and didn’t stimulate growth. Increasing the amount to $2,000 won’t make a difference.
2021-01-25 13:36:00 Opinion Prof. Dershowitz on Impeaching the Departed Though the Nixon episode is similar to President Trump’s, it is hardly a precedent. Nixon resigned the presidency.
2021-01-25 13:34:00 Opinion Maybe a New $100 Coin for When Inflation Returns Our coins are worthless and should be in $1 and $2 denominations because the value of these coins would pay for coin things.
2021-01-25 13:18:00 World Covid-19 Vaccine Setbacks Damp Europe’s Prospects for Normal Summer Approval, manufacturing and delivery problems slow inoculation drive across the continent
2021-01-25 12:00:00 Politics Trump Impeachment: When Will the Senate Vote and How Will the Trial Work? The House impeached Donald Trump for inciting an insurrection, and a Senate trial is expected to begin on Feb. 8
2021-01-25 11:57:00 World India and China Troops Scuffle at Border Indian army says security forces had minor face-off along disputed border in eastern Himalayas last week
2021-01-25 11:40:00 Politics Biden Taps Kevin O’Connor as White House Physician Doctor provided medical care to Biden when he was vice president
2021-01-25 11:39:00 Logistics Report UPS to Sell Freight Trucking Business to TFI for $800 Million In exiting truck cargo, UPS to focus on parcel-delivery network
2021-01-25 11:35:00 Politics Labor Nominee Marty Walsh Holds Modest Assets, Disclosures Show President Biden’s choice drew income mostly from his role as Boston mayor and has city and union-tied retirement plans
2021-01-25 11:30:00 Politics Supreme Court Orders Emoluments Lawsuits Against Trump Be Dismissed Justices cite mootness in wiping out cases alleging the former president was illegally profiting from his office
2021-01-25 11:27:00 Life & Arts ‘It Is Time to Shed!’ Readers Share Decluttering Tips Readers eager to tidy up at home offer stories and advice for getting rid of household clutter.
2021-01-25 11:09:00 Life & Arts Suits and Sweats: How Men Will Dress Post-Covid At this month’s European fall 2021 men’s fashion shows, designers offered up surprisingly pragmatic ideas for what our wardrobes will look like come autumn—a blend of WFH ease and tradition
2021-01-25 10:38:00 World Another North Korean Diplomat Defects to South Korea Ryu Hyon U is among a number of ambassador-level officials who have fled Kim Jong Un’s regime in recent years
2021-01-25 10:38:00 World British Economy, Post-Brexit and Pummeled by Covid, Is Worst in G-7 Charts show the U.K. economy came into the coronavirus pandemic weaker than its peers after years of uncertainty over Brexit. Then, it was hurt more by shutdowns because of its dependence on recreational spending for growth.
2021-01-25 09:59:00 Life & Arts 4th and Go: The Decision That Took the Buccaneers and Chiefs to the Super Bowl The Packers blundered a big fourth-down call. Tampa Bay aced one a week after Kansas City did the same. It’s the analytically driven choice that’s increasingly changing football.
2021-01-25 08:47:00 Markets Stock Futures Diverge Amid Renewed Tech Surge Slew of heavyweights including Apple, Microsoft and Tesla are scheduled to post earnings this week
2021-01-25 08:40:00 Markets GameStop, BlackBerry, Kimberly-Clark: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today Technology shares were leading gains premarket
2021-01-25 08:37:00 Politics Dominion Voting Systems Sues Rudy Giuliani Over Claims of Rigged Election Suit says Trump attorney defamed the company by spreading accusations that it rigged the 2020 election for President Biden
2021-01-25 08:36:00 U.S. Boy Scouts’ Liability Insurers Challenge Sex-Abuse ‘Claim-Mining’ Insurers fighting to minimize their exposure in the Boy Scouts bankruptcy case say lawyers submitted thousands of questionable sexual-abuse claims
2021-01-25 08:34:00 Life & Arts Tom Brady, Patrick Mahomes and a Historic Stay-at-Home Super Bowl An NFL legend adds a fresh layer to his legacy. He’ll have an easy commute—and a very tough opponent.
2021-01-25 08:33:00 Tech Google Progresses Plan to Remove Third-Party Cookies Alphabet unit is seeking privacy-friendly alternatives following complaints from rivals that use cookies
2021-01-25 08:06:00 Business CEOs Confront Employees’ Doubts on Covid-19 Vaccine From video campaigns to vaccine clinics with games and cake, companies deploy tactics to coax skeptical employees to get shots
2021-01-25 08:01:00 U.S. Cuomo Proposes Airbnb Collect Sales Tax on New York Stays Move could generate additional $10 million for the state in fiscal year that starts April 1, and $18 million in subsequent years, governor’s aides say
2021-01-25 08:00:00 Life & Arts You Tested Positive for Covid-19. Now What? Doctors answer questions about quarantining, getting the vaccine and resuming daily activities
2021-01-25 07:53:00 Markets GameStop Shares Surge Toward Fresh Record Ahead of Opening Bell Videogame retailer has been at the center of a tussle between Reddit-driven day traders and hedge fund short sellers
2021-01-25 07:00:00 CMO Today Budweiser Skips Super Bowl Ad, Promises Vaccine Education Instead The self-styled King of Beers will still appear in a Super Bowl commercial for its parent company
2021-01-25 07:00:00 Markets Microsoft Puts on Its Game Face Software giant’s results will reflect a big gaming quarter, though console shortage and margins complicate the story
2021-01-25 07:00:00 World A China With More Clout Awaits Biden at the WTO Beijing has become more active in cases and cast itself as a defender of the group’s top court
2021-01-25 06:45:00 Business Merck Scraps Covid-19 Vaccine Candidates The two shots generated comparatively weak immune responses in early-stage studies
2021-01-25 06:35:00 Pro Bankruptcy AMC Nets $917 Million in Financing to Ward Off Bankruptcy World’s largest movie theater chain buys time with debt and equity deals as it continues to burn cash during the Covid-19 pandemic
2021-01-25 06:30:00 Markets Small-Investor Surge Shows No Sign of Slowing Small-investor trading activity has stayed super hot in 2021, highlighting the opportunity for big banks to tap into a rare source of growth
2021-01-25 06:06:00 Markets Cannabis Companies Are Ready to Roll Strong sales during the pandemic and the Senate flip are easing some of the sector’s old challenges
2021-01-25 05:42:00 Markets China’s Economy Overtaking the U.S. Will Be Harder Than It Looks Estimates that China will soon overtake the U.S. in total economic heft depend on it maintaining current growth trends, and poor demographics will make it difficult to hold the lead
2021-01-25 05:35:00 World Oxygen Scarcity Swells Covid-19’s Death Toll From Brazil to Zambia, hospitals call for emergency resupplies; in some cases, patients suffocate
2021-01-25 05:30:00 Markets Caterpillar’s Chinese Rivals Power Through the Pandemic Sany Heavy and Zoomlion have gained market share in China while their foreign competitors have been hobbled by Covid-19
2021-01-25 05:30:00 Derby’s Take: Economists Don’t Expect Much From This Week’s Fed Meeting
2021-01-25 05:30:00 High-Profile Hacks Spark Calls for Global Cyber Response Attacks on health-care facilities and government suppliers show need for international response
2021-01-25 05:30:00 Economy Yellen Passed the Economic Stability Baton to Powell. Now, He’s Handing It Back. Their shared history and views set the stage for the closest working relationship between the Fed and Treasury in years
2021-01-25 05:30:00 CFO Journal Will Brexit Lead to Higher Funding Costs? Companies Aren’t Sure More than $1.6 trillion in financial assets were shifted out of the U.K. since the 2016 referendum
2021-01-25 05:30:00 Markets Warren Buffett’s Investments in Japan Struggle to Keep Up With the Market Holdings in fossil-fuel businesses pressure companies that Berkshire Hathaway took 5% stake in
2021-01-25 05:30:00 Pro VC VC Funds Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital Goes for Mega-Fundraise Thrive is looking to raise about $2 billion for a pair of early-stage and growth funds, sources say
2021-01-25 05:00:00 Business Smart-Lock Maker Latch to Use Tishman Speyer SPAC to Go Public Deal between startup and SPAC sponsored by property firm values Latch at $1.56 billion
2021-01-25 05:00:00 Politics Biden to Sign Buy American Order for Government Procurement Order is set to revise the definition of American-made products as the president seeks to boost domestic manufacturing
2021-01-25 04:00:00 Life & Arts World’s Ice Is Melting Faster Than Ever, Climate Scientists Say Research shows the Earth lost a sheet of ice 100 meters thick roughly equivalent to the size of the U.K. in recent decades
2021-01-25 03:00:00 Risk & Compliance Journal European Banks Quit Ecuador’s Amazonian Oil Trade ING, Credit Suisse announce moves to exclude Ecuadorean Amazon oil export from trading activities as more European investors turn their backs on fossil fuels
2021-01-24 22:33:00 World Mexico's President Tests Positive for Covid-19 Andrés Manuel López Obrador said his symptoms are mild
2021-01-24 22:19:00 Life & Arts Buccaneers vs. Chiefs. Tom Brady vs. Patrick Mahomes. Super Bowl LV Is Set. Brady is headed to his 10th Super Bowl and first with Tampa Bay, while Mahomes is looking for his second straight ring
2021-01-24 20:53:00 Markets Chinese Video-App Firm Kuaishou Launches $5.4 Billion IPO in Hong Kong Deal would be world’s largest IPO since late 2019
2021-01-24 20:00:00 Life & Arts The People Planning for a Baby After the Covid Pandemic Hit The monumental decision to have a child got even more complicated in the past year—here’s why some are still making the effort
2021-01-24 19:00:00 U.S. Cuomo, New York State Lawmakers Head for Clash Over Tax Increase Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins says she would push for the hike regardless of federal funding amount
2021-01-24 18:32:00 Life & Arts Tom Brady Takes the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to the Super Bowl The 43-year-old Brady advances to his 10th NFL title game after a 31-26 win over the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship
2021-01-24 18:20:00 Politics Biden to Lift Restrictions on Transgender Military Service Members Administration could act as soon as Monday to reverse former President Donald Trump’s directive
2021-01-24 17:17:00 Opinion Who Gets to Make the Rules? Washington May Finally Get It Right Biden should keep Trump’s last-minute executive order making regulation more accountable.
2021-01-24 17:14:00 Opinion Online Speech Wars Are Here to Stay Both left and right want to regulate social media, but their ‘fixes’ would break the web.
2021-01-24 17:09:00 Opinion State Lessons in Vaccine Rollouts Federalism is again proving its value in getting shots in arms.
2021-01-24 17:08:00 Opinion Unmasking Samantha Power She’s never explained her needless snooping on Michael Flynn.
2021-01-24 17:07:00 Opinion Arizona Republican Meltdown The state party reveals the divisions that could doom the GOP for years.
2021-01-24 17:05:00 Opinion Taking Stock of a Most Violent Year Some blamed the mayhem on the pandemic, but persistent cop-bashing emboldened criminals.
2021-01-24 17:04:00 Opinion Send Out the Search Party for New Covid Strains Variants of the virus can be stopped if uncovered early—but that will require more genetic sequencing.
2021-01-24 17:00:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: Larry King ‘The famous and notorious alike are given the chance, with America tuned in, to defend a life’s reputation.’
2021-01-24 16:58:00 Opinion Biden’s Chance to End Border Chaos Step one is to increase the number of H-2 guest-worker visas for Central Americans.
2021-01-24 16:57:00 Opinion Henry Aaron Was Admirable in Anonymity ‘It’s been many years,’ the baseball great told me over coffee, ‘since I wore a uniform.’
2021-01-24 16:56:00 Books ‘Midnight in Vehicle City’ Review: How Labor Got Its Horsepower A sit-down strike at General Motors outraged Alfred Sloan, the company’s president. As days turned into weeks, he decided to make a deal.
2021-01-24 16:55:00 World New Coronavirus Variants Complicate the Battle Against the Pandemic Mutations may delay a return to normal as faster-spreading strains could make people sicker or render vaccines less effective
2021-01-24 16:49:00 Deals NCR Is Nearing a Deal to Buy ATM Operator Cardtronics Deal would value Cardtronics at $39 a share, or about $1.7 billion
2021-01-24 16:39:00 Opinion Banks Are Wise to Focus on the Low-Carbon Economy We’ve seen examples of what’s worked, and how our financial institutions and the broader public will benefit from taking part in this transition to a low-carbon economy.
2021-01-24 16:37:00 Economy China Overtakes U.S. as World’s Leading Destination for Foreign Direct Investment Flows into America nearly halved as Covid-19 dragged on the economy in 2020
2021-01-24 16:02:00 Politics Covid-19 Bill Negotiations Offer First Test of Biden’s Bipartisanship Renewal Effort Talks could be upended if partisan frustrations rise during the second impeachment trial of his predecessor
2021-01-24 15:00:00 Economy Economy Week Ahead: Industry, GDP, Consumer Spending Data out this week will show how the economy was performing as 2020 came to a close
2021-01-24 14:35:00 Opinion Sen. Scott and Readers Assess the Biden Plan President Biden’s proposal is filled with progressive pipe dreams and wasteful spending. We ought to be working on solutions that provide targeted relief and deal directly with the horrific economic and health impact of Covid-19.
2021-01-24 14:34:00 Opinion Albany and New York Must Confront Finance The real problem is New York politics and the lack of a viable Republican presence to compete for power.
2021-01-24 13:35:00 World China Flies Warplanes Near Taiwan in Show of Force, Prompting U.S. Warning The sorties come in President Biden’s first week in office, a likely warning from Beijing to the new administration over its support for the island
2021-01-24 12:00:00 Life & Arts How to Know When to Quit Your Job Many baby boomers—especially those at the top of their game—struggle with the decision to step down. And when they leave, the transition is often ‘painful and messy,’ says one career coach.
2021-01-24 11:51:00 World Russia’s Putin Faces Rising Discontent Amid Alexei Navalny Protests Kremlin must decide how to respond to rallies supporting the jailed opposition leader
2021-01-24 10:35:00 A-hed Dropping WhatsApp? Nostalgia Drives Users to ICQ Before social media was about algorithms and viral misinformation, kids in Hong Kong loved a clunky instant-messaging service used on dial-up PCs. Now they’re grown up, and back.
2021-01-24 10:00:00 Markets Cryptocurrency Startup Ripple’s Future Hinges on SEC Case San Francisco company says its signature product, known as XRP, is a currency that shouldn’t be subject to securities laws
2021-01-24 10:00:00 Tech Facebook and Amazon Boosted Lobbying Spending in 2020 The tech giants led all other companies in federal lobbying expenditure last year, reports show
2021-01-24 10:00:00 Life & Arts Baseball’s Hall of Fame Vote Becomes a Test of ‘Character Clause’ Almost every good candidate on the ballot falls short in the integrity, sportsmanship and character department, and the result could be a rare year with no players inducted
2021-01-24 09:52:00 World Dubai Fires Health Chief as Covid-19 Infections Surge The Middle East’s tourism and business hub is resisting another lockdown that threatens to paralyze its travel-dependent economy
2021-01-24 09:03:00 Markets If It Looks Like a Bubble and Swims Like a Bubble... Several parallels between the dot-com bubble and today’s stock market are strong
2021-01-24 09:00:00 Life & Arts She Traded In Her Oil Industry Job to Design Cowboy Boots for the Office When the price of oil plummeted, Lizzy Chesnut Bentley knew it was time to go all-in on another Texas tradition
2021-01-24 09:00:00 Tech From AirPods to Bose: The Best Noise-Canceling Headphones The right fit is critical for more effective noise canceling
2021-01-24 08:55:00 Life & Arts Michigan Wolverines Pause All Sports Activities Because of Covid Outbreak The state health department ordered the school to shut down sports operations temporarily, making Michigan the first major university to halt all athletic activities since March.
2021-01-24 08:00:00 Politics Biden’s ‘Buy American’ Plan Eyed Warily by Other Countries Executive order expected Monday; trading partners looking to see if access to U.S. contracts is diminished
2021-01-24 08:00:00 Markets Covid-19’s Financial Toll Mounts as Homeowners Keep Postponing Mortgage Payments Some 2.7 million homeowners are still pausing their monthly mortgage bills, and more might need help in the coming months
2021-01-24 08:00:00 Markets 15 Personal-Finance Lessons We Can All Learn From the Year of Covid-19 Among them: You really do have to plan for emergencies, and your personal-finance decisions don’t exist in a vacuum
2021-01-24 07:48:00 World India’s Covid-19 Vaccinations Get Off to Bumpy Start Technical problems and fears over safety lower turnout at inoculation sites, putting the effort far behind its targeted pace
2021-01-24 05:30:00 Tech China Is Joining the Global Push to Rein In Tech Giants Beijing recently unveiled guidelines for competition, adding to efforts in Brussels and Washington to curb the power of digital companies
2021-01-24 05:30:00 Economy Biden Team Promises New Look in Trade Policy A ‘worker-centered’ policy means less focus on opening markets for banks and drug makers
2021-01-24 05:30:00 Markets Bullish Stock Bets Explode as Major Indexes Repeatedly Set Records Wagers tied to Tesla, Amazon, Apple and Nvidia were among the most popular wagers recently
2021-01-23 15:39:00 Politics Trump Pressed to Change Justice Department Leadership to Boost His Voter Fraud Claims The former president’s efforts were dropped after top DOJ officials agreed to resign en masse in protest if he succeeded, people familiar said
2021-01-23 14:41:00 Politics Biden’s Immigration Package Faces Steep Odds on Capitol Hill Lawmakers in both parties say a comprehensive bill would hit hurdles, but a narrower deal centered on Dreamers might be possible
2021-01-23 13:37:00 Tech How to Protect Seniors From Online Fraud and Phone Scams Stay ahead of scammers by blocking their calls, sending their emails to spam and monitoring assets
2021-01-23 12:34:00 Business AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 Vaccine Shortfall Threatens EU Plans to Boost Inoculations Drugmaker say early supplies could lag projections by as much as 60% in a worst-case scenario
2021-01-23 12:00:00 Life & Arts Creamy Fonio Cereal With Blueberries and Pomegranate This warming breakfast porridge demonstrates the range of possibilities for cooking with this nutrient-packed ancient grain cultivated by small-holder farmers in Senegal.
2021-01-23 12:00:00 Life & Arts Light Up the Winter Table With Healthy, Flavorful African Recipes Nourishing, boldly spiced and rich in whole grains, the cuisines of Africa taste fresher than ever. No wonder more cooks in the U.S. are catching on. Try these recipes for creamy fonio, jollof rice and Kenyan black-eyed peas.
2021-01-23 12:00:00 Tech On the 100th Anniversary of ‘Robot,’ They’re Finally Taking Over A century after playwright Karel Čapek coined the word ‘robot,’ we finally have the technology to make the stuff of science fiction a reality—for better and for worse
2021-01-23 12:00:00 Life & Arts Kunde Ladle this Kenyan staple over rice and pair it with sautéed leafy greens for a fast, affordable, nutritious vegan meal.
2021-01-23 12:00:00 Life & Arts Jollof Rice The inspiration for the dish we call jambalaya in the U.S. is one of the most popular dishes in West Africa and a subject of fierce rivalry between Ghana and Nigeria. Eric Adjepong’s adapted this recipe from the one cooked by his Ghanaian mother.
2021-01-23 10:01:00 Politics Stimulus Checks Emerge as Tool to Fill Gaps in Targeted Aid Programs As Congress weighs another round of direct payments to households, advocates see a continuing role for periodic cash from Washington
2021-01-23 10:01:00 Life & Arts The NHL Season Began 10 Days Ago. The Dallas Stars Just Got Started. A major Covid-19 outbreak sidelined the 2020 Stanley Cup finalists until Friday. The team is nonetheless one of the few to allow some fans to attend.
2021-01-23 10:00:00 Markets Snap Turning Virtual Reality Into Real Money Company is putting users in stores, and businesses on maps, virtually; investors are giving it real credit
2021-01-23 09:41:00 Markets Tying of Insurance Agents’ Sales to Health Benefits is Conflict That Flies Below Radar New consumer regulations allow practice to continue
2021-01-23 08:59:00 Business Tech Giants Apple, Microsoft and Tesla Headline a Busy Earnings Week Starting Monday, more than a fifth of the S&P 500 are expected to provide quarterly updates, including AT&T, Boeing and McDonald’s
2021-01-23 08:52:00 World Russia Detains Hundreds as Protesters Rally for Jailed Opposition Leader Navalny Unsanctioned demonstrations across the country are a test for the Putin critic’s movement and a fresh challenge to the Kremlin
2021-01-23 08:30:00 WSJ. Magazine Artist Deborah Roberts—a Favorite of Beyoncé and Barack Obama—Gets Her Due The 58-year-old artist on her solo show at the Contemporary Austin and the magic pickle jar she keeps in her studio
2021-01-23 08:19:00 World Israel to Vaccinate High Schoolers to Slow Infections Among the Young Campaign reflects finding that the country’s youth are far more likely to test positive for Covid-19
2021-01-23 08:00:00 Life & Arts Billie Eilish Wears Vegan Shoes. Should You? Celebrities have contributed to a rise in the popularity of plant-based diets, but finding stylish vegan shoes is still challenging. Here are the innovators in this growing market
2021-01-23 07:00:00 Art Review ‘Ground/Work’ Review: Cloudy Concepts At the Clark Art Institute, six new outdoor works engage with the museum’s 140-acre campus.
2021-01-23 05:30:00 World Covid-19 Is Speeding Up How Deaths Are Recorded When governments realized death tolls were too low, they revamped the way they counted them
2021-01-23 05:30:00 U.S. Military and Police Investigate Members Charged in Capitol Riot At least 18 current and former cops, firefighters and service members have been arrested in connection with the mob attack
2021-01-22 21:11:00 Markets Netflix, Procter & Gamble, Intel: Stocks That Defined the Week Here are major companies whose stocks moved on the week’s news
2021-01-22 19:17:00 Tech Samsung Eyes Investing Up to $17 Billion in New U.S. Chip Plant South Korean electronics giant is scouting locations in Texas, Arizona and New York for semiconductor plant
2021-01-22 18:50:00 Opinion The Covid-19 Origin Investigation Beijing spreads conspiracies while impeding WHO experts.
2021-01-22 18:48:00 Opinion Henry Louis Aaron The home run king overcame racism and great pitchers.
2021-01-22 18:47:00 Opinion Biden’s Fossil-Fuel Freeze Climate activists are now running federal oil and gas permitting.
2021-01-22 18:45:00 Opinion Cuomo’s Tax Ultimatum New York’s Governor says bail him out or he’ll punish New Yorkers.
2021-01-22 18:08:00 Opinion Yes, the Senate Can Try Trump Impeachment for former officials was the norm at the time of the founding.
2021-01-22 18:07:00 Opinion Trump’s Worst Virus Failure He could have broken the norm that says don’t deliver unwelcome news or treat voters like grown-ups.
2021-01-22 18:06:00 Opinion The GOP Bid to Boot Gavin Newsom Could Backfire Republicans may feel good about their chances, but recalls often redound to the benefit of the recalled.
2021-01-22 18:01:00 Hedge Funds Short Bets Pummel Hot Hedge Fund Melvin Capital Fund that bet against GameStop, other stocks pays hefty price for shorting
2021-01-22 17:55:00 Business United Airlines Looks to Require Employees to Get Covid-19 Vaccines United CEO calls on other companies to mandate vaccinations for their employees
2021-01-22 17:35:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Biden Administration to Review Possible Sanctions Relief in Response to Covid-19 The review could help clarify humanitarian assistance exceptions to U.S. sanctions during the pandemic, observers said
2021-01-22 17:17:00 Markets Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman Got a Big Raise for 2020 The bank’s board awarded Mr. Gorman about $24 million in company stock and about $9 million in cash
2021-01-22 16:51:00 Politics Covid-19 Contracted by Scores of National Guard Members in Washington Security eases as inauguration week ends, while officials assess impact of heavy security on Washington
2021-01-22 16:45:00 Markets United Wholesale Mortgage Goes Public in Biggest SPAC Deal Ever Merger with blank-check company takes mortgage lender public at valuation of $16 billion
2021-01-22 16:42:00 Politics Labor Groups Push Biden Administration on Union-Friendly Priorities Efforts will likely face pushback from business community as union membership continues to decline
2021-01-22 16:36:00 Markets IBM Shares Are an Anomaly in a Hot Tech Sector Once the biggest U.S. company, IBM has struggled with its turnaround
2021-01-22 16:28:00 Politics Texas Files Lawsuit Over Biden’s Deportation Pause State attorney general says moratorium violates agreement signed with Trump administration on immigration policy changes
2021-01-22 16:19:00 Politics Military Intelligence Agency Says It Monitored U.S. Cellphone Movements Without Warrant DIA says it buys commercially available geolocation data and has used it five times in recent years for authorized investigations
2021-01-22 16:13:00 Politics Biden Orders Analysis of ‘Domestic Violent Extremism’ Following Capitol Riot President directs national-security team to develop tools to assess and counter threat
2021-01-22 16:13:00 Economy U.S. Existing-Home Sales Reach Highest Level in 14 Years Ultralow interest rates and remote work during the coronavirus pandemic spurred demand
2021-01-22 15:59:00 Markets Demand Worries Drag on Oil Prices Output cuts and economic recovery in China were powering a rebound, but many traders are looking for increased consumption
2021-01-22 15:39:00 Politics Biden’s Executive Orders Signal Collision Course With GOP President has taken more than two dozen executive actions, prompting cheers from Democrats and frustration from Republicans
2021-01-22 15:29:00 CMO Today DoorDash Is Going to the Super Bowl. So Are Other Brands That Did Well During the Pandemic. The delivery company wants to keep the momentum going after a strong year
2021-01-22 15:29:00 Politics Impeachment Article Against Trump to Be Delivered to Senate Monday ‘It will be a full trial; it will be a fair trial,’ says Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer
2021-01-22 15:19:00 Business AstraZeneca Warns of Covid-19 Vaccine Shortfall in Europe Pfizer had issued a similar warning, as EU officials face scrutiny over vaccine rollout
2021-01-22 15:12:00 Business Comcast’s NBCUniversal to Shut Down Sports Cable Channel NBCSN by Year-End National Hockey League, Nascar programming will move to network USA
2021-01-22 15:10:00 Politics Justice Department Weighs Amnesty for Academics to Disclose Foreign Funding Proposal comes as faculty members escalate opposition to criminal cases and the U.S. balances international academic collaboration with proper disclosure
2021-01-22 15:10:00 Masterpiece Sanskrit Epics Animated in Stone Ornately-carved pillars and friezes from a 16th-century South Indian temple bring the stories of the Ramayana and Mahabharata to life.
2021-01-22 14:50:00 World Keystone Pipeline Cancellation Raises Pressure on Canadian Producers Oil-and-gas companies seek new routes to market for Canada’s top export
2021-01-22 14:44:00 Life & Arts The Flying Dutchmen This complex creation from mixologist Tess Posthumus is the signature drink at her Amsterdam bar, Flying Dutchmen Cocktails
2021-01-22 14:27:00 Life & Arts Travel to Amsterdam Through Films, Music, Food and More Until you can jet off to The Netherlands worry-free, we’ve devised ways to immerse yourself in its capital from afar
2021-01-22 14:16:00 China China Pushes for High-Level Meeting to Ease Tension With U.S. Beijing plans to pivot from trade issues to climate change and the pandemic in an effort to overcome divisions
2021-01-22 14:10:00 Opinion Let Them Learn A governor wants to let kids back in school. Meanwhile a president lets bureaucrats play.
2021-01-22 14:07:00 Markets IBM Can’t Spin Its Way Out of Trouble Disappointing results bring stock back to where it was before the company announced a spin-off meant to boost growth prospects
2021-01-22 14:04:00 Business Amazon Seeks to Postpone Alabama Unionization Vote Tech company pushes for in-person union ballot in place of mail-in option allowed due to pandemic
2021-01-22 13:55:00 Life & Arts American Women in Florence Collector Christian Levett has filled his Italian palazzo with a world-class assembly of works by female Abstract Expressionists.
2021-01-22 13:52:00 Markets Every Warren Buffett Needs a Charlie Munger Online trading buddies can lift you up when you’re feeling down. But real-world friends tell you when you’re wrong.
2021-01-22 13:49:00 Markets Investors Seek Out Riskiest Junk-Rated Bonds The prospect of a return to economic normalcy is powering a recovery in the lowest-rated junk debt
2021-01-22 13:45:00 Opinion Trump and the Failure of the Expert Class They were right about his character, but his defects were obvious to almost everyone. They were wrong about virtually all else.
2021-01-22 13:44:00 Opinion Joe Biden’s First Day Began the End of Girls’ Sports An executive order rigs competition by requiring that biological boys be allowed to compete against girls.
2021-01-22 13:34:00 World U.K. Covid-19 Variant Could Be More Deadly, British Officials Say Tentative conclusion that new variant boosts fatality risk by 30%-40%
2021-01-22 13:08:00 Opinion Has the Left Hijacked King’s Loving Vision? Much of Martin Luther King Jr.’s work has apparently been forgotten.
2021-01-22 13:07:00 Opinion What Does Trumpism Mean For the Future? Desperate evangelicals and social conservatives held their noses but voted for Donald Trump because he promised to make America great again by restoring traditional moral and Christian values.
2021-01-22 13:03:00 Opinion Hartford Has a Lot to Offer, Now and Ahead The Brookings Institution named Hartford one of 19 global “Knowledge Capitals” for its talented workforce, elite research universities and entrepreneurial spirit.
2021-01-22 13:00:00 Life & Arts A New Era for an Old Term of Honor as the U.S. Gets a Second ‘Gentleman’ A medieval English title becomes a job description for Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris.
2021-01-22 12:49:00 Tech Are Gyms Dead? Why Home Workouts Are Here to Stay With one in four gyms projected to close last year due to the pandemic, Americans began spending big on Pelotons and other digitally connected home-workout equipment. Now some say we’ll never go back.
2021-01-22 12:37:00 Politics Yellen Approved for Treasury Chief by Senate Panel Nomination could go to Senate floor Friday after unanimous committee vote
2021-01-22 12:33:00 Markets For Oil Servicers, Adversity Spells Opportunity Oil-field services companies show signs of improvement; sentiment-driven selloff could be opportunity to pick up shares on the cheap
2021-01-22 12:32:00 Politics Senate Confirms Lloyd Austin as Defense Secretary Retired Army general becomes first Black chief of the Defense Department
2021-01-22 12:25:00 U.S. Biden Aims to Boost Covid-19 Vaccine Distribution by Using 1950s Law Defense Production Act won’t have an immediate meaningful impact on vaccine production but could increase syringe supplies
2021-01-22 12:12:00 Tech Google Closes Loon, Its Plan to Use Balloons for Web Access Project that sought to provide internet access in hard-to-reach regions winds down over cost concerns
2021-01-22 11:58:00 Life & Arts James Taylor Looks Back on His Early Years At 72, the music legend who wrote ‘Fire and Rain’ and ‘Something in the Way She Moves’ reflects fondly on ‘the arrogance of youth’
2021-01-22 11:38:00 Business EV Surge Sends Cobalt Prices Soaring China controls big chunk of market for key metal in car batteries that is mined largely in Africa
2021-01-22 11:22:00 Life & Arts Ford F-150 PowerBoost: Enough AC Outlets to Fuel a Monster Tailgating Party This hybrid truck features a Pro Power Onboard system that feeds a panel of outlets in the cargo bed—and it’s amazing, writes Dan Neil
2021-01-22 11:02:00 Life & Arts China Played Its Hand Well in 2020. Will It Keep Winning? While American democracy struggled to cope with the pandemic, economic crisis and political unrest, Chinese authoritarianism could point to notable successes—and rising international clout.
2021-01-22 10:43:00 Books ‘The Good American’ Review: Field Work for Humanity Robert Gersony’s job was investigating human misery. Not everyone welcomed the truth.
2021-01-22 10:40:00 Books ‘Sybille Bedford’ Review: The Call of the Page Throughout Bedford’s books, the depth of human tragedy lies just beneath a comedy of manners.
2021-01-22 10:33:00 Books ‘The Ratline’ Review: A Father’s Dark Path Researching the life of a high-ranking Nazi, the author comes to know the man’s son—first amiably, then contentiously.
2021-01-22 10:30:00 Books Fiction: ‘The Copenhagen Trilogy’ Review A Danish writer’s autobiographical fiction immerses the reader in her troubled experience, moment by moment.
2021-01-22 10:27:00 Books ‘The Crown in Crisis’ Review: Year of the Three Kings As Edward VIII made his plans for marriage clear, even his bride-to-be worried the price would be too high.
2021-01-22 10:20:00 Books ‘The Good Girls’ Review: Village of Fear The tragedy of ‘Padma Lalli’ points at the danger many Indian women face, right at home.
2021-01-22 10:14:00 Books Children’s Books:‘The Great Gatsby: A Graphic Novel Adaptation’ Review Picturing the Jazz Age with the classic story of American self-invention.
2021-01-22 10:12:00 Books ‘Slough House’ Review: Spies Out to Pasture Jackson Lamb and the other ’slow horses’ are expendable assets in a cynical covert struggle.
2021-01-22 10:08:00 Books ‘The Last Shah’ Review: A Purely Domestic Conspiracy No single force ousted Iranian leader Mohammad Mossadeq, but in the end only one man stood to benefit.
2021-01-22 09:54:00 Books Five Best: Philip Terzian on Memoirs by Writers Selected by the author of ‘Architects of Power: Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and the American Century.’
2021-01-22 09:45:00 Life & Arts At the Biden-Harris Inauguration, Emerging Fashion Designers Win Big Wednesday’s ceremony instantly boosted lesser-known designers like Batsheva Hay who dressed Ella Emhoff and Sergio Hudson who created Michelle Obama’s look, spiking sales and social-media buzz. Here, a guide to these rising stars.
2021-01-22 09:01:00 World WHO Caught Between China and West on Frozen-Food Coronavirus Transmission Chinese officials have blamed frozen-food imports as one reason for the country’s new Covid-19 infections
2021-01-22 09:00:00 Business Where Our Current Covid-19 Vaccination Rate Will Take Us Most might not be inoculated until 2022, though Biden administration’s efforts and vaccines in development could quicken pace
2021-01-22 08:37:00 Business Surging Grain Prices Fuel Surprise Farm Recovery Higher commodity prices are benefiting grain farmers but could lead to higher prices at the grocery store
2021-01-22 08:25:00 Markets IBM, Intel, Adamis, GameStop: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today Markets appeared to be pausing after rallying for much of January
2021-01-22 08:16:00 Markets Companies Are Selling Stock at Record Pace to Start the Year U.S.-listed companies have conducted 57 follow-on stock offerings this year through Wednesday, raising $12.35 billion
2021-01-22 08:13:00 World After Black Lives Matter Protests, London’s Historic Financial Center to Remove Statues Linked to Slavery Decision comes amid a debate over the U.K.’s colonial past
2021-01-22 08:09:00 World Studies of South African Coronavirus Strain Raise Concerns About Immune Response Findings suggest vaccine makers may need to update shots as virus evolves, as with flu vaccinations
2021-01-22 08:00:00 Politics Wave of Women in Congress Puts Men in Top Supporting Roles Charlie Capito, husband of West Virginia senator, becomes first man to lead Congressional Club for spouses
2021-01-22 08:00:00 Life & Arts Tom Brady’s Chance to Work From Home—at the Super Bowl The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are one win away from becoming the first team to play the Super Bowl at its home stadium. The chances that it never happened before? Really low.
2021-01-22 07:32:00 Markets Stock Futures Fall, Signaling Losses After Fresh Records Investors await purchasing-managers indexes that are expected to show business activity continued to grow in January
2021-01-22 07:00:00 Pro PE Industry News General Partners Add Show-Biz Touches to Virtual Meetings Private-equity leaders take on newscaster roles as they work, sometimes awkwardly, to mitigate Zoom fatigue during investor meetings
2021-01-22 07:00:00 Markets Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index Battles Midlife Crisis: Boring Stocks and Blacklists The index and its mix of stocks will be getting a makeover
2021-01-22 06:30:00 World Dozens Face Criminal Complaints in Thailand, Accused of Insulting the King Most are protesters who have changed the country’s political landscape in recent months
2021-01-22 06:27:00 Markets Markets Are Convinced: The Fed Won’t Come for the Punch Bowl The Treasury selloff is about inflation expectations, not higher ‘real’ yields. Investors may need to adjust their old playbooks.
2021-01-22 06:16:00 Economy Eurozone on Brink of Recession Amid Covid Wave, Slow Vaccine Rollout High infection rates, lockdowns led to a deeper decline in services activity as 2020 began
2021-01-22 06:00:00 CMO Today Paramount+ Marketing Push Will Rely Heavily on ViacomCBS Networks Media companies’ new streaming services have one advantage over tech rivals such as Netflix: cross-promotion opportunities
2021-01-22 05:55:00 Life & Arts Why I’m Abstaining From Dry January Our wine columnist consults medical experts on the benefits that the comforting ritual of wine drinking can bring
2021-01-22 05:33:00 Markets SPACs Rescued Wall Street From the Covid Doldrums Initial public offerings from so-called blank-check companies gave a boost to banks’ stock-selling operations
2021-01-22 05:30:00 Business Hand Sanitizer Sales Jumped 600% in 2020. Purell Maker Bets Against a Post-Pandemic Collapse Gojo Industries adds second factory, expecting new hygiene habits will remain after Covid-19 crisis fades
2021-01-22 05:30:00 Markets Amazon Needs Electric Vehicles, Too In the frothy EV sector, companies focused on parcel-delivery vans have a stronger business case than most
2021-01-22 05:30:00 Economy Mexico Working on Alternative to Bill That Would Force Central Bank to Buy Dollars Controversy around the bill led the government to seek a way to help migrants change dollars while protecting the Bank of Mexico’s autonomy
2021-01-22 05:30:00 CFO Journal American Eagle Outfitters CFO Seeks to Provide Investors With Additional Insights The clothing retailer plans to break out results for its namesake and Aerie brands separately
2021-01-22 05:30:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Defense Act Extends Anti-Money-Laundering Requirements to Antiquities Market A provision of the legislation also asks the Treasury Department to conduct a study on the facilitation of money laundering through the art market
2021-01-22 05:30:00 Politics Unusable Invitations, Soldiers in Hotel Rooms: Washington’s Deflated Inaugural Capital region likely suffered major financial hit from crowd-less inauguration
2021-01-22 05:12:00 Markets TikTok Rival Kuaishou Wants Your Attention—and Investment The coming IPO of the Tencent-backed company in Hong Kong could be one of the city’s biggest
2021-01-22 05:00:00 U.S. Biden to Sign Executive Orders to Boost Pandemic Aid, Expand Federal Worker Protections Move would expand food assistance, improve distribution of stimulus payments
2021-01-22 01:55:00 Tech Google Escalates Dispute With Australia by Threatening Search Shutdown Fight is over a proposed law requiring tech giants to pay publishers for news
2021-01-21 20:12:00 CIO Journal Augmented Reality Used in Knee-Replacement Surgery in a U.S. First Data streamed through smart glasses allow for precise removal of bone and cartilage and accurate positioning of knee implants
2021-01-21 19:45:00 Pro Bankruptcy Mytheresa IPO Nets $2.2 Billion Value, Vindicating Neiman Marcus Holdout IPO brings to fruition fight spearheaded by Marble Ridge Capital founder Dan Kamensky
2021-01-21 19:15:00 Markets Intel to Stay Mostly Inside Chip maker hints at more outsourcing, but expects majority of future chips to be made in-house
2021-01-21 19:03:00 U.S. Brooklyn Handyman Accused of Three Separate Killings in Same Apartment Complex Kevin Gavin’s alleged victims were elderly neighbors living in a NYCHA complex for seniors
2021-01-21 18:50:00 Opinion Biden Learns to Love Brett Kavanaugh Democrats suddenly adopt the theory of the unitary executive.
2021-01-21 18:49:00 Opinion Look Who’s Still Rioting Trump is gone, but in Seattle and Portland the violence continues.
2021-01-21 18:49:00 Opinion Senate Filibuster Showdown Democrats won’t agree not to break the 60-vote majority rule.
2021-01-21 18:48:00 Opinion Biden’s Man at Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas is getting the questions he dodged the last time.
2021-01-21 18:36:00 Business IBM Pledges to Return to Growth in 2021 After Another Sales Drop CEO is encouraging more risk-taking to drive growth and ensuring a higher tolerance for failure across the business
2021-01-21 18:21:00 Pro Bankruptcy NRA Must Face New York Lawsuit Seeking Group’s Dissolution New York Attorney General Letitia James won a preliminary round against the NRA in state court after the gun-rights group’s bankruptcy filing
2021-01-21 18:18:00 Opinion America Emerges Disunited but Intact After an exhausting four years, a relatively normal inauguration offers hope that better days are ahead.
2021-01-21 18:17:00 Opinion Money Mules in Sheep’s Clothing Cybercriminals recruit unwitting accomplices to launder cash via electronic transfer.
2021-01-21 18:15:00 Opinion The GOP Hit Rock Bottom. Can Conservatives Recover? If reasonable Republicans want to hold off the far left, they will have to stop the rise of the far right.
2021-01-21 18:14:00 Books ‘Sonic Boom’ Review: Golden Years A veteran rock journalist chronicles the heyday of Warner Bros. Records, the most successful label in the history of the music industry.
2021-01-21 18:14:00 Opinion Regeneron’s Antibody Miracle for Covid-19 Within two days of receiving treatment, my wife and I had no more symptoms.
2021-01-21 18:13:00 Opinion Joe Biden’s Inaugural Purge The firing of Peter Robb belies all the happy talk about unifying the country.
2021-01-21 18:00:00 Politics Lloyd Austin Receives Waiver Allowing Him to Become Defense Chief Lawmakers’ action paves the way for confirmation of first Black defense secretary
2021-01-21 17:34:00 Business Instacart Cutting 1,900 In-Store Jobs Company discloses number of reductions in a letter to a Chicago-area grocery union
2021-01-21 17:26:00 Politics Anthony Fauci Reprises Familiar Role in Covid-19 Response Efforts President Biden turns to top infectious-disease doctor who had famously up-and-down relationship with Donald Trump
2021-01-21 17:22:00 Politics U.S. Restores Ties With WHO, Seeking to Reassert Global Health Leadership Country will fulfill its financial obligations to the World Health Organization, resume collaborations and stop drawing down staff, Fauci says
2021-01-21 17:18:00 Arts & Entertainment Jump-Starting an Arts Revival Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposal for New York’s arts and entertainment industries is a beginning—but only that.
2021-01-21 16:47:00 Opinion Biden’s ‘Inheritance’ Democrats in politics and the press agree to pretend the economy is a disaster.
2021-01-21 16:47:00 Politics President Biden Quickly Rejoined Paris Climate Accord. Meeting the Emissions Goals Will Be Harder. Some of world’s largest economies are still behind on greenhouse-gas reduction targets, five years after signing the agreement
2021-01-21 16:44:00 Markets Mytheresa IPO Is Less Fashion-Forward Than It Looks Former Neiman Marcus owners have sold a stake in the online retailer at a high valuation, but its business model may need a makeover
2021-01-21 16:39:00 Tech Facebook Refers Trump Account Suspension to Oversight Board Social-media giant says decision from independent panel would be binding, can’t be overruled by CEO Mark Zuckerberg
2021-01-21 16:30:00 Politics Trump Hires Butch Bowers as Impeachment Defense Attorney South Carolina lawyer previously served in the Justice Department under George W. Bush
2021-01-21 16:24:00 Film Review ‘Our Friend’ Review: Third Person Singular A devastating illness and an unconventional living arrangement push the bounds of friendship in this drama starring Dakota Johnson, Casey Affleck and Jason Segel.
2021-01-21 16:22:00 Business Federal Judge Denies Parler’s Bid to Force Amazon to Resume Service Parler sued the tech giant Jan. 11, claiming it kicked the social network off its servers for political and anticompetitive reasons
2021-01-21 16:22:00 Economy Fed Says All 12 Regional Bank Presidents Renominated to New Five-Year Terms Current second-in-commands at regional banks also were approved for new terms, in a process described by Fed governor Lael Brainard as ‘rigorous’
2021-01-21 16:21:00 U.S. Inauguration Day Protests in Portland, Seattle Turned Violent More than a dozen arrested following demonstrations with anti-law-enforcement messaging
2021-01-21 16:18:00 Television Review ‘Losing Alice’ and ‘Réunions’ Review: Family Dramas, Shady and Sunny A filmmaker directs a difficult subject—her husband; a small army of relatives reunite on a tropical island.
2021-01-21 16:16:00 Film Review ‘The Human Factor’ Review: Daunting Diplomacy Dror Moreh’s documentary gives a behind-the-scenes look at 30 years of Israel-Palestine peace talks from the perspective of the American negotiators.
2021-01-21 16:16:00 Business What Is the Keystone XL Pipeline and Why Did President Biden Issue an Executive Order to Block It? The fight over the oil pipeline meant to carry Canadian crude to the U.S. has spanned administrations
2021-01-21 16:10:00 Books Bestselling Books Week Ended January 16 With data from NPD BookScan
2021-01-21 16:01:00 Film Review ‘Atlantis’ Review: Sunken Souls Ukraine’s dystopic Oscar entry takes place in a polluted landscape strewn with abandoned machinery and frozen corpses.
2021-01-21 15:57:00 Film Review ‘Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time’ Review: Operating Under False Pretenses In Hungary’s Oscar entry, a neurosurgeon worries she’s losing her mind after a man with whom she is smitten claims that he does not know her.
2021-01-21 15:44:00 Politics President Biden Will Keep Christopher Wray as FBI Director Decision provides stability atop agency as new administration confronts rising threat of domestic extremism after Capitol riot
2021-01-21 15:43:00 Opinion Businesses Should Be Wary of Politicization Kimberley Strassel’s “Big Business’s Sharp Left Turn” reminds me of my youth in Maryland where the local lunch counters had signs saying: “We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.” In the time of Jim Crow laws, everyone knew what that meant.
2021-01-21 15:42:00 Opinion Biden Would Be Right to Ban LNG Terminal Blocking this project from moving forward should, indeed, be an easy call.
2021-01-21 15:41:00 Opinion We Need Technical People Running Technology Firms The leader must be a technologist, no matter how bright any other candidate might be.
2021-01-21 15:23:00 Markets Fidelity Personal-Investing President Kathleen Murphy to Retire in 2021 For more than a dozen years, she led a business that now oversees $3.6 trillion in assets
2021-01-21 15:06:00 Politics Buttigieg Pledges to Support Biden’s $2 Trillion Infrastructure Plan Nominee to lead Transportation Department tells Senate panel that he would pursue goals to drive federal spending on roads, rails and bridges
2021-01-21 15:06:00 Business Seed Company Corteva Faces Renewed Activist Pressure Agriculture spinoff of DowDuPont faces push from Starboard to replace board members, CEO
2021-01-21 15:02:00 Politics Biden Proposing to Extend U.S.-Russia Nuclear Arms Deal by Five Years President vowed during campaign to extend the New START treaty, which is scheduled to lapse on Feb. 5
2021-01-21 14:51:00 Business Ford, GM Stocks Rally on Electric-Vehicle Enthusiasm After getting little attention from Wall Street, GM and Ford have recently posted some of their biggest stock-market gains in years
2021-01-21 14:13:00 Life & Arts Why Meg Ryan’s ‘When Harry Met Sally’ Sweater Is Back in Style The humble fisherman’s knit is a cozy, versatile staple—and a better outfit enhancer than your tired hoodie. Here, expert tips on how to wear it as smartly as Sally Albright does.
2021-01-21 14:01:00 Logistics Report Maersk Ship Loses 750 Containers Overboard in Pacific Ocean Rough seas during a trip from China to Los Angeles caused the loss, the latest in a series of weather-related accidents at sea affecting millions of dollars in cargo
2021-01-21 13:57:00 Life & Arts Our Sense of Fairness Is Beyond Politics New research shows that people across the political spectrum have similar views about when and how wealth should be redistributed.
2021-01-21 13:57:00 U.S. Trump Businesses See Sharp Revenue Decline at Key Properties Pandemic-related financial challenges facing former president could intensify as clients seek to cut ties
2021-01-21 13:51:00 Politics What Is the Paris Climate Agreement and Why Is Biden Rejoining Now? The accord sets out a framework to prevent climate change and seeks to limit the rise in overall global temperature
2021-01-21 13:46:00 World Vatican Bank’s Ex-President Convicted of Embezzlement, Money Laundering The Vatican court sentenced Angelo Caloia and his lawyer to almost nine years in prison amid a cleanup of bank finances
2021-01-21 13:35:00 Politics Liz Cheney Challenged Over Impeachment Stance Wyoming Republican draws primary opponent, faces calls for removal from GOP party post
2021-01-21 13:15:00 Life & Arts Speedy Bean Soup With Smoked Sausage The recipe couldn’t be simpler. But the soothing, flavorful results will make everyone at the table feel well taken care of.
2021-01-21 13:14:00 Politics Biden Moves to Set Covid-19 Workplace-Safety Rules President directs Occupational Safety and Health Administration to quickly require employers to adopt protocols for protecting workers from virus
2021-01-21 13:04:00 Life & Arts Make This Speedy Bean Soup With Smoked Sausage Tonight The recipe couldn’t be simpler. But the soothing, flavorful results will make everyone at the table feel well taken care of.
2021-01-21 13:00:00 Markets Millennials Embrace Prenups—but Through a Very Different Lens Than in the Past Millennials are using prenups to address new economic and social issues—including rising student debt, social-media use and embryo ownership
2021-01-21 13:00:00 Opinion God at the Inauguration President Biden’s overt religiosity is a relatively modern trend in U.S. history.
2021-01-21 12:52:00 Opinion Trump Deepened Ties With India, Leaving New Challenges for Biden Can the president lock in his predecessor’s gains while expanding trade and standing for human rights?
2021-01-21 12:29:00 Markets Buying Airline Stocks Takes a Leap of Faith U.S. carriers are hoping that pent-up demand for leisure travel could be unleashed as soon as this summer
2021-01-21 12:19:00 Life & Arts Why Some Men Are Still Wearing Suits to Work From Home 10 months on, a small cohort of tailoring traditionalists still refuses to trade ties for T-shirts
2021-01-21 12:01:00 Experience Report As Audiobooks Boom, Publishers Get Inventive With Sound-Only Recipes, Puzzles, How-Tos Audiobooks’ rise in popularity is giving publishers confidence to move beyond lean-back listening
2021-01-21 11:48:00 Markets Britain’s IG Group to Buy U.S. Options Firm Tastytrade for $1 Billion Deal would substantially increase IG’s presence in U.S. market
2021-01-21 11:12:00 Markets Investment-Grade Bonds Stumble on Rising Yields Tightening spreads give investors little cushion against rising U.S. Treasury yields
2021-01-21 10:47:00 Life & Arts Airbnb Alternatives: 5 Highly Selective Rental Sites The big vacation rental sites can easily overwhelm prospective renters. These five smaller alternatives are regionally focused, easily managed—and seriously picky.
2021-01-21 09:31:00 Tech LG Rethinks Its Smartphone Division’s Future as Chinese Rivals Power Ahead Once a dominant player, mobile unit hasn’t been profitable for years, and CEO says all possibilities are being considered
2021-01-21 09:12:00 Markets Paccar, Under Armour, Ford, United: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today Technology shares are leading gains in futures markets
2021-01-21 08:51:00 Markets U.S. Stock Futures Rise as Tech Leads Charge Jobless claims data remain high as the labor market struggles to recover
2021-01-21 08:43:00 Economy U.S. Unemployment Claims Remained Elevated Last Week About 900,000 workers filed for jobless benefits as a Covid-19 surge slows economic recovery
2021-01-21 08:07:00 Economy ECB Holds Rates, Stimulus Steady as Economic Outlook Darkens European Central Bank will continue to support eurozone governments with asset purchases
2021-01-21 08:03:00 Business Fed-Up Executives Plot a Faster Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout Honeywell CEO and other leaders say their operational know-how can help jump-start America’s vaccine administration
2021-01-21 08:00:00 Markets Bank Heavyweights Help Financial ETF Set Record Flows of $3.6 billion so far in January into the Financial Select Sector SPDR exchange-traded fund already exceed every full-month total since November 2016
2021-01-21 08:00:00 Business Lilly Antibody Drug Prevents Covid-19 in Nursing Homes, Study Finds Drugmaker plans to ask U.S. health regulators to expand bamlanivimab’s use to protect nursing-home residents and staff from Covid-19
2021-01-21 08:00:00 Tech Intel to Cap Off Difficult Year Ahead of New Chief Chip maker is expected to report record annual sales blemished by market-share losses and technical setbacks
2021-01-21 07:50:00 World Covid-19 Has Nearly Wiped Out the Flu—How Do We Keep It From Coming Back? Mask-wearing and higher vaccination rates have contributed to historically low levels of seasonal influenza
2021-01-21 07:07:00 World Baghdad Bombings Kill Dozens, Highlighting Iraq’s Challenges Amid U.S. Withdrawal Twin explosions shatter a period of relative calm in the Iraqi capital
2021-01-21 07:03:00 World Biden Sends Important Foreign-Policy Signal With Taiwan Inauguration Invite Taiwan envoy formally attends presidential swearing-in for first time since 1979; China restrained in response
2021-01-21 07:00:00 Markets Hedge Funds’ Bets on Fannie and Freddie Cause Pain Exit of the Trump administration, seen as best hope for mortgage-finance giants’ privatization, delivers blow
2021-01-21 07:00:00 Markets Bumble’s Bet on Women Won’t Pay Off Everywhere Women have fallen fast for Bumble’s platform, but investors may want to take it slow
2021-01-21 07:00:00 Business Travelers’ Net Written Premiums Rose Under 3% in Fourth Quarter Total revenue at the property-casualty insurer climbed more than 4%
2021-01-21 06:00:00 U.S. Housing Market Stays Tight as Homeowners Stay Put Supply crunch pushes prices near record highs
2021-01-21 05:30:00 Politics Biden Faces Early Hurdles on Nominees, Covid-19 Relief Pace of cabinet confirmations and fate of major legislative proposals will rest on bipartisan negotiations in 50-50 Senate
2021-01-21 05:30:00 Finance Third SPAC ETF Launch Taps Into Blank-Check Company Boom Morgan Creek Capital’s Mark Yusko is teaming up with former Credit Suisse CEO Brady Dougan
2021-01-21 05:30:00 CFO Journal Home-Financing Startup Knock Names First CFO Michelle DeBella, who previously worked for Uber and Lyft, has joined the real-estate startup
2021-01-21 05:30:00 Markets Palm Oil Market Is Looking Like a Hands-Down Winner Prices have soared since last May, as pandemic effects hurt production while demand stays strong
2021-01-21 05:30:00 Altered Vaccine Data Exposes Critical Cyber Risks Editing and then releasing Covid-19 vaccine information was attempt to undermine public confidence, analysts say
2021-01-21 05:30:00 Business Post-Brexit Rules Problematic for Some, Smooth Sailing for Others New U.K.-EU trade regulations hit small businesses harder; firms say true test is still to come
2021-01-21 05:30:00 Medical-Technology Startups Post Strong Year for IPOs, Acquisitions Venture capitalists cash in as startups capitalize on demand spurred by the pandemic
2021-01-21 05:06:00 Markets Jack Ma Is Back, but Ant’s Troubles Are Far From Over A tougher regulatory approach—and probably slower growth—now look inevitable
2021-01-21 05:00:00 Politics Biden’s Agenda Depends on Success in Curbing Covid-19 Pandemic President seeks to jump-start effort to slow the virus’s spread with a series of executive orders
2021-01-21 04:59:00 Markets Chinese Telecom Carriers Ask NYSE to Make Another U-Turn on Delisting Companies say they operated in accordance with laws and regulations, and followed regulatory requirements of listing venues
2021-01-21 03:58:00 Markets Buffett-Backed BYD Sells $3.9 Billion of Shares as EV Stocks Electrify The Chinese car maker joins peers in capitalizing on investor bullishness about new-energy vehicles
2021-01-21 02:32:00 World Indonesia Plane Crash Probe Centers on Engine Control Problems Information from the Sriwijaya Air jet’s data recorder points to pilots trying to deal with an engine-throttle malfunction
2021-01-20 23:21:00 Financial Regulation Biden Is Expected to Tap Michael Barr as Comptroller of the Currency Likely pick for banking oversight role helped craft Dodd-Frank financial overhaul during Obama administration
2021-01-20 22:58:00 Markets Starboard Seeks to Take Control of Corteva Board, Oust CEO Activist takes aim at agricultural giant worth $33 billion
2021-01-20 19:24:00 Politics Avril Haines Becomes First Woman Director of National Intelligence Senate confirms President Biden’s pick to lead U.S. intelligence agencies
2021-01-20 19:24:00 U.S. Proud Boys Organizer Arrested on Capitol Riot Charges Joseph Randall Biggs encouraged members of the far-right group to attend the rally that turned into a violent siege of the U.S. Capitol, authorities say
2021-01-20 19:21:00 CIO Journal Autodesk CIO Wants to Create ‘Netflix’ Experience for Employees Remote work spotlighted need to keep employees productive and efficient, says Prakash Kota
2021-01-20 19:17:00 Politics Democrats Officially Take Control of the U.S. Senate Vice President Harris will break any ties in 50-50 chamber
2021-01-20 18:32:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Trump Administration Imposed More Postelection Sanctions Than Recent Administrations A surge in postelection designations could complicate foreign policy for the Biden administration
2021-01-20 18:29:00 Markets Biden Extends Student Loan Payments Pause, Moratorium on Evictions Executive orders are signed by new president to maintain protections from economic hardships caused by Covid-19 pandemic
2021-01-20 18:29:00 Opinion Biden, Faith and Tolerance An opportunity for our new president to stand behind his words.
2021-01-20 18:28:00 Politics Florida Ophthalmologist With Ties to Sen. Menendez Among Those Granted Clemency by Trump Salomon Melgen among more than a dozen in health care industry who received late-hour pardons or commutations
2021-01-20 18:20:00 Politics The Full List of Trump’s 144 Grants of Clemency Outgoing president pardoned 74 individuals, commuted sentences of 70 others before leaving office
2021-01-20 18:15:00 Opinion Biden’s Keystone Pipeline Kill On his first day he insults Canada and ends thousands of jobs.
2021-01-20 18:15:00 Opinion Trump’s Pardons—Good, Bad and Ugly On the last-minute clemency list, Steve Bannon stands out.
2021-01-20 18:15:00 Opinion Joe Biden’s Unity Address National healing doesn’t require agreement on one point of view.
2021-01-20 18:03:00 NRA Previews Chapter 11 Strategy Against ‘Hostile’ New York The gun-rights organization is making its debut appearance in a Texas bankruptcy court while facing a legal challenge in New York
2021-01-20 18:02:00 Opinion Beijing Fills the Mideast Vacuum China’s projection of power isn’t only a regional concern. It will eventually pose a threat to the U.S.
2021-01-20 18:01:00 Opinion The Republican Future Starts Now How to keep working-class Trump voters while winning back support in the suburbs?
2021-01-20 18:01:00 Opinion America Needs a National Identity Card It could solve the problems of voting, immigration and Covid-19 vaccination.
2021-01-20 18:00:00 Opinion If Corporate Diversity Works, Show Me the Money Nasdaq wants to mandate wider representation on its companies’ boards but has little proof of the benefits.
2021-01-20 17:59:00 Opinion Joe Biden’s Super State The Covid vaccination mess calls to mind the catastrophic rollout of ObamaCare.
2021-01-20 17:58:00 Books ‘Fundamentals’ Review: The Simplicity of Abundance The cosmos is so vast as to defy the imagination. So too the atomic realm, with its inner vastness. Yet the ‘ingredients’ are few.
2021-01-20 17:48:00 Politics Biden Moves to Reverse Trump Environmental Policies Some industries see opportunity to modernize, others prepare to resist
2021-01-20 17:47:00 Business United Airlines Offers Grim Outlook but Seeks to Rebuild Airline said it plans to recover in coming years with revenue from future travel and cost-cutting
2021-01-20 17:46:00 Opinion Now Isn’t the Time to Let Up on Cancer Screening
2021-01-20 17:45:00 Opinion New Penn Station Is a Catalyst for Renewal There is a once-in-a-century opportunity to unlock this region’s upside potential, including New York City proper, by unifying the transit network centered on a rethought and rebuilt above-ground Penn Station.
2021-01-20 17:44:00 Opinion Many Are Happy to Pay a Bit More for Clean Energy There are many who will happily pay more—to encourage alternative sources, to put long-term impact ahead of short-term savings and to better reflect total costs associated with production, distribution, use, etc.
2021-01-20 17:44:00 World Europeans Clash With Pfizer, BioNTech Over Covid-19 Vaccine Deliveries Governments allege shortfall in deliveries is endangering their immunization campaigns
2021-01-20 17:19:00 Politics Amid High Drama, Biden Declares Democracy Has Survived, Unity Possible The 46th president faces one of the toughest tests as he tells the nation it can pick up the pieces and move forward
2021-01-20 16:31:00 Art Review Abroad at Home: Virtual Vatican An interactive tour of the empty Vatican Museums offers the chance to experience the Sistine Chapel and other Renaissance treasures without the crowds.
2021-01-20 16:21:00 Politics Who Is Running Government Agencies While Senate Considers Biden’s Cabinet Nominees? Biden transition team has named acting agency chiefs to lead major government agencies until Senate can act
2021-01-20 16:17:00 Inauguration Day: Joe Biden Takes Office as 46th U.S. President
2021-01-20 16:11:00 Markets U.S. Inflation-Protected Bond Yields Hold Near Record Lows Investors increasingly expect higher inflation, but not Fed rate increases, analysts say
2021-01-20 15:56:00 Life & Arts Fashion at Biden-Harris Inauguration Showcases Commitment to American Designers At today’s ceremony, the work of American designers ruled supreme, from President Joe Biden’s Ralph Lauren suit to Vice President Kamala Harris’s Christopher John Rogers purple outfit. Lady Gaga and J. Lo performed in more extravagant fashions from Schiaparelli Couture and Chanel
2021-01-20 15:39:00 Politics Harris’s Elevation as First Female Vice President Breaks Gender, Race Barriers Trailblazer will serve as a counselor to Biden and the tiebreaker in an evenly divided Senate
2021-01-20 15:36:00 World China Bids Good Riddance to Trump Bitter messages from Beijing punctuate tumultuous time in U.S.-China relations under former president
2021-01-20 15:19:00 Real Estate Can the Nugget Couch Really Keep Quarantined Kids Entertained? Pent-up children can reconfigure chic modular furniture—like the pandemic best-seller the Nugget—into forts and palaces, saving parents sanity
2021-01-20 15:12:00 Politics Poet Amanda Gorman Has Star Turn Reading ‘The Hill We Climb’ at Biden Inauguration Youngest inauguration poet reads poem written after the siege of the U.S. Capitol
2021-01-20 15:10:00 Screen Time What to Watch: In Netflix’s ‘Lupin,’ a Dapper Thief Plots a Heist—and Revenge Plus, a critically acclaimed film, ‘The White Tiger,’ and more films and series to add to your queue
2021-01-20 15:04:00 Business Trump’s Pardon List Includes Business Figures and Financiers A former Google engineer and ex-CEOs are among the many who got last-minute presidential pardons
2021-01-20 14:37:00 Business Restaurants Get Sales Lift From Latest Stimulus Checks McDonald’s owners, Checkers, TGI Fridays and others report January boost—but the lift can be fleeting
2021-01-20 13:28:00 Business Tyson Foods to Settle Price-Fixing Claims Meat company to pay $221.5 million to poultry buyers, helping end a fight over alleged collusion
2021-01-20 13:26:00 Opinion A Biden Tax-Hike Break for Small Businesses Congress should raise the top corporate rate to 28%, but only for the most profitable companies.
2021-01-20 13:25:00 Opinion No, You Can’t Try an Impeached Former President The Senate erroneously asserted jurisdiction once, but dissenting members forced an acquittal.
2021-01-20 13:21:00 Opera Review ‘The Kaiser of Atlantis’ and ‘Mezzo Extravaganza’ Reviews: Outdoor Opera Resonates Now available to watch online, the Atlanta Opera’s in-person performances embraced Covid-19 restrictions as a creative challenge.
2021-01-20 13:04:00 Markets Russian Gold Miner Nordgold Aims to List in $5 Billion London IPO Possible offering comes amid a monthslong rally in precious-metal prices
2021-01-20 12:39:00 Politics Trump Leaves Washington the Way He Entered—as a Political Outsider President departed with ties to Republican leaders strained and his political prospects unclear
2021-01-20 12:28:00 Tech How Composting Has Gone High-Tech We tried out four new ways to encourage rot that are easier, chicer and far less smelly than the hippy methods of old
2021-01-20 12:26:00 Business Jay-Z Joins Push to Boost Minority-Owned Cannabis Businesses Rapper creates $10 million fund for startups, saying people of color have missed out on marijuana boom
2021-01-20 12:09:00 Arts The Next Stop for Departing Public Officials? Hollywood From Beto O’Rourke and Stacey Abrams to John Kasich, politicians and bureaucrats are looking for another close up
2021-01-20 11:36:00 Arts Why the Director of Netflix’s ‘White Tiger’ Is Drawn to an Unscrupulous Underdog Ramin Bahrani, who brought his friend’s prize-winning novel to the screen, is intrigued by characters who ‘aren’t typically written about or movies aren’t made about.’
2021-01-20 11:14:00 Real Estate How to Turn Your Sad Laundry Closet Into a Laundry Room Even if you’re washing your clothes in a cluttered crawl space, our columnist’s guidance will help you achieve the laundry nook of your dreams.
2021-01-20 10:23:00 Politics President Trump Rescinds Own Lobby Ban Outgoing president strikes down his order that had blocked administration officials from taking lobbying jobs for five years after leaving office
2021-01-20 10:14:00 Markets Procter & Gamble Has Topped Out for Now Rich valuation and the fact that shares aren’t likely to shine in a pandemic recovery are holding company back
2021-01-20 09:41:00 Politics Biden Will Lead an Older, Polarized and Financially Insecure Nation U.S. has weaker economy, shorter life expectancy and voters who have moved toward the edges of both parties
2021-01-20 08:41:00 Politics Joe Biden to Be Inaugurated as 46th President Under Tight Security Trump exits White House; Midday ceremony will lack much of customary pomp due to the pandemic and Trump supporters’ Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol
2021-01-20 08:37:00 Markets Morgan Stanley Profit Shoots Higher, Fueled by Wall Street Fourth-quarter profit jumped 51%; results topped analyst estimates
2021-01-20 08:24:00 Markets Mountain of Small Loans Looms Over Europe’s Pandemic-Hit Banks Banks have outsize exposure to small businesses, the backbone of the continent’s economy. If these businesses fail, pain awaits Europe’s already-stretched lenders.
2021-01-20 08:04:00 Markets Investor FOMO Is Selective for Luxury Brands Burberry’s turnaround plans are seen as less convincing than a similar push at Prada
2021-01-20 07:40:00 Markets Stock Futures Rise Amid Big Earnings Day Investors parse earnings from United Health, Procter & Gamble and Morgan Stanley
2021-01-20 07:30:00 Markets Stocks Could Plunge Even if the Economy Booms Can we face a bear market even if the economy booms? Yes, but it would be rare.
2021-01-20 07:30:00 World Australians Can’t Get Home, but Tennis Players Fly in From Covid-19 Hot Spots Athletes arrive as country reduces the number of international arrivals allowed
2021-01-20 07:13:00 Business UnitedHealth’s Profit Slips as Health-Care Visits Return The company paid more in medical costs to cover insured members who returned to doctors’ offices after delaying care earlier in the pandemic
2021-01-20 07:03:00 Markets What the Blue Wave Means for Green Goals A Democratic majority in both chambers of Congress, even with narrow margins, could open the door to some potentially transformative clean-energy policies
2021-01-20 07:01:00 Business Procter & Gamble Gets Shoppers to Pay Up Sales jumped 8% in latest quarter, fueled by demand for high-end household products
2021-01-20 06:59:00 Markets Jack Ma, Alibaba’s Billionaire Co-Founder, Resurfaces After Months of Lying Low The appearance was his first since regulators began clamping down on his business empire
2021-01-20 06:36:00 World China Escalates Efforts to Beat Back Its Worst Covid-19 Resurgence Northern cities build temporary quarantine facilities, impose lockdown measures on millions of residents and roll out mass testing
2021-01-20 06:29:00 Politics Biden’s First-Day Orders Will Include Mask Mandate, Blocking Keystone Pipeline The incoming president will spend his first hours in office taking a series of executive actions on coronavirus, the environment and immigration
2021-01-20 06:20:00 Markets Hong Kong Stocks Swell as Market Eats Up Chinese Cash The city’s stock market is at a 20-month high, and trading volumes have hit records thanks to mainland investors
2021-01-20 06:02:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Retirement Insecurity, Blue Seas for Green Investments, Tips for Procrastinators Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2021-01-20 06:00:00 Markets 5G’s Huge Upfront Bill Will Come Due Spectrum auction will cost carriers about $95 billion, but payoff is uncertain
2021-01-20 05:55:00 Markets How Covid-19 Vaccine Rollouts Will Pump Through Global Markets Markets where vaccines are rolled out rapidly may be beneficiaries, but the greater impact could be on the laggards
2021-01-20 05:30:00 Life & Arts Slow Covid Vaccine Distribution Adds to Tokyo Olympics Woes Lagging vaccinations in the U.S. and a skeptical Japanese public complicate the Games, now six months away
2021-01-20 05:30:00 Monitoring of Employees Faces Scrutiny in Europe Remote work adds surveillance risks, privacy experts say
2021-01-20 05:30:00 Markets Commercial Real Estate Debt Sustained by Central Bank Bond Buying Some are concerned that policy is obscuring potential long-term pain inflicted by Covid-19 lockdowns
2021-01-20 05:30:00 Markets Americans Aren’t Draining Their Retirement Funds in the Pandemic The number of people taking early withdrawals related to Covid-19 is lower than expected
2021-01-20 05:30:00 CFO Journal Companies Revisit Financial Forecasts Ahead of Potential Tax Changes Higher tax rates, new incentives and penalties could impact business costs under the incoming Biden administration
2021-01-20 05:30:00 World Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 Vaccine Helps U.K. Lead Race to Reach Nursing Homes The shot, yet to be approved elsewhere in the West, is easier to store, ship and administer to recipients unable to travel
2021-01-20 05:00:00 Finance Sixth Street Partners to Acquire Life Insurance Business Talcott Resolution for $2 Billion Financial firms continue to scoop up life-insurance policies and annuities
2021-01-20 02:51:00 Politics Trump Issues 73 Pardons, Including to Ex-Aide Steve Bannon Recipients include former GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy and rapper Lil Wayne
2021-01-19 22:30:00 Politics Trump Approves Deportation Protections for Venezuelans in U.S. Illegally The action comes under the Deferred Enforced Departure program that offers deportation protections and work permits to immigrants in the country without authorization
2021-01-19 22:12:00 U.S. NASA Mulls A New Deep-Space Rocket Test Despite Technical Concerns Repeating Saturday’s aborted ground test could unduly stress booster prior to liftoff
2021-01-19 21:51:00 Politics DOJ Inquiry Into Sen. Richard Burr’s Stock Trades Ends Without Charges Transactions were made by North Carolina lawmaker in advance of Covid-19 market turmoil last year
2021-01-19 21:05:00 Pro Cyber News Google Play Suspends Wimkin, Citing Posts Calling for Violence Takedown follows the removal of the small social-media network from Apple’s App Store last week
2021-01-19 19:33:00 Business Outgoing FCC Chief Says Government Laid Groundwork for Faster Networks Ajit Pai says he focused on fostering investment while maintaining independence
2021-01-19 19:14:00 Economy PPP Program of Covid-19 Small-Business Aid Reopens With 60,000 Loans First wave of applications is largely handled by community and small lenders after SBA set aside time for them to act exclusively
2021-01-19 18:31:00 U.S. U.S. Army Private Faces Terrorism Charges Over Alleged ISIS Support Private First Class Cole James Bridges provided military advice to an undercover agent posing as a jihadist, authorities say
2021-01-19 18:21:00 Markets Netflix Delivers a One-Two Punch Streaming giant tempers subscriber outlook with surprising cash flow projection
2021-01-19 18:07:00 Opinion How Will President Biden Govern? By his own instincts, or the desires of his party’s progressives?
2021-01-19 18:07:00 Opinion The New Censorship Have the social-media platforms gone too far or acted too late? Students debate.
2021-01-19 18:06:00 Opinion Addicted to Trump Clinton and Pelosi can’t let go of their enemy.
2021-01-19 18:06:00 Opinion Yellen vs. Yellen on the Minimum Wage Biden’s Treasury nominee adapts and extends her views.
2021-01-19 17:56:00 Opinion Net Neutrality and Big Tech’s Speech Hypocrisy Facebook and Twitter once positioned themselves as champions of an open internet. No longer.
2021-01-19 17:56:00 Opinion Biden’s Stimulus Hits All the Right Notes His American Rescue Plan builds on what worked in the Cares Act and corrects what didn’t.
2021-01-19 17:55:00 Opinion America the Unextreme Politicians need to relearn the wisdom of not denigrating voters by the millions.
2021-01-19 17:55:00 Opinion The Biden Travel Ban Manage your expectations about Covid reopening.
2021-01-19 17:54:00 Books ‘The First Inauguration’ Review: A Pledge to Serve For President Washington, holding public office was a responsibility assumed, not an opportunity exploited.
2021-01-19 17:54:00 Politics High Court Weighs FCC Rollback of Restrictions on Media Ownership Long-running battle involves concerns about racial and gender diversity
2021-01-19 17:53:00 Opinion Can the New President Avoid Obama’s First-Term Mistake? The left will try to convince Biden he has a mandate for progressive change. He doesn’t.
2021-01-19 17:46:00 CIO Journal Tech Executives Look to New Administration to Undo Rules Blocking Talent Among the hopes: more approvals of H-1B visas, a popular vehicle for staffing IT teams
2021-01-19 17:23:00 Politics DHS Pick Mayorkas Says He Would Work to Thwart Another Capitol Attack Republican objection to fast-tracking Biden’s nominee suggests he won’t be confirmed on first day of administration
2021-01-19 17:15:00 Music Review ‘Home’ by Rhye Review: For Love and All Things Holy The latest from Canadian producer Mike Milosh features the Danish National Girls’ Choir, imbuing his sleek electro-pop about seduction and heartbreak with liturgical overtones.
2021-01-19 17:13:00 Television Review ‘Walker’ Review: ‘Ranger’ Gets a Reboot Chuck Norris’s whompin’ stompin lawman is turned into a soft-spoken hero encumbered by uncertainties.
2021-01-19 17:11:00 Television Review ‘Painting With John’ Review: A Decidedly Mixed Palette John Lurie’s new show is an odd collage of nature watching, storytelling and art instruction.
2021-01-19 16:57:00 Business Microsoft Bets Bigger on Driverless-Car Space With Investment in GM’s Cruise Tech giant will host cloud services for GM’s autonomous-vehicle subsidiary; financing brings Cruise’s valuation to $30 billion
2021-01-19 16:56:00 Politics Justice Department Seeks to Limit Scope of Landmark LGBT Rights Decision New directive, aimed at a 2020 Supreme Court ruling, comes in the waning moments of the Trump administration
2021-01-19 16:53:00 World Italian Government Survives Senate Confidence Vote Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte overcomes challenge but falls short of outright majority after dispute over economic plan
2021-01-19 16:53:00 Business Netflix Tops 200 Million Subscribers for the First Time Streaming giant said it added a record 37 million subscribers in 2020
2021-01-19 16:39:00 U.S. New York Attorney General Blasts NYPD Over Handling of Black Lives Matter Protest Letitia James says police officers used excessive force; 29 protesters were arrested
2021-01-19 16:32:00 U.S. Conspiracy Charges Filed Over Capitol Riot FBI reveals communications among alleged Oath Keepers during invasion: ‘All members are in the tunnels under capital seal them in. Turn on gas’
2021-01-19 16:24:00 Business MGM Ends Bid for British Gaming Firm Entain The Las Vegas-based casino operator had offered 0.6 of its shares for each Entain share, worth £8.09 billion
2021-01-19 16:23:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Companies Target Workforce Risks in 2021 Work-from-home arrangements—and return-to-office concerns—are top-of-mind for executives, risk groups say
2021-01-19 16:16:00 Business New Stellantis CEO Plans to Preserve Factories, Offer More Distinctive Brands The newly combined auto maker, created by the merger of Fiat Chrysler and PSA, began trading in New York on Tuesday
2021-01-19 16:00:00 Logistics Report Paccar, Aurora to Develop Self-Driving Big Rigs The agreement is the latest between a traditional truck manufacturer and an automation technology firm
2021-01-19 15:58:00 Politics McConnell Says Trump Provoked Mob That Attacked Capitol Senate Majority Leader McConnell said mob was ‘provoked by the president and other powerful people’
2021-01-19 15:53:00 Pro Bankruptcy Distress Steak ‘n Shake Taps Adviser for Possible Debt Restructuring Sardar Biglari’s burger-and-milkshake company has hired FTI Consulting for help addressing an upcoming debt maturity
2021-01-19 15:29:00 Opinion Impeachment and Healing a Divided Country Mr. Biden could have taken the stage and shouted that enough was enough. He could have pounded the podium and told social-media companies to “stand down” and open their channels to all Americans again.
2021-01-19 15:28:00 Opinion The Electoral College the Next Time Around If electoral votes were allocated proportional to the statewide vote, essentially as in Maine and Nebraska, both candidates would spend a lot of time in California. Under a proportional allocation even the loser in California could garner a substantial number of electoral votes.
2021-01-19 15:27:00 Opinion Getting Talent to and From The Modern Factory Floor We have many jobs open but the low-income worker lacks transportation to and from the job.
2021-01-19 15:09:00 Politics Blinken Addresses U.S. Rivalry With China, Russia in Senate Hearing Secretary of state nominee benefits from connections to Senate Foreign Relations Democrats, but GOP senators grill him on policy
2021-01-19 14:53:00 World Iran Sanctions President Trump in Parting Shot at Outgoing Administration Move citing involvement in terrorist and antihuman-rights actions aims to taunt Trump but will have little impact
2021-01-19 14:50:00 Politics Trump Rules Easing Power-Plant Emissions Limits Are Vacated by Court Appeals court ruling gives incoming Biden administration an opening to reset rules for addressing climate change
2021-01-19 14:43:00 Politics Janet Woodcock to Lead FDA on Interim Basis Longtime head of drug-review efforts to take over agency after its turbulent year dealing with Covid-19 pandemic
2021-01-19 14:37:00 Business Moderna on Track to Make 100 Million Vaccine Doses by End of March, CEO Says Timetable would meet Biden’s goal for first 100 days; Stéphane Bancel says drugmaker is monitoring virus mutations, ‘very rare’ allergic reactions to its shot
2021-01-19 14:11:00 Markets Banks Need a Pickup in Loans to Prosper Things may improve for banks, but without loan demand, revenue growth will still be hard to come by
2021-01-19 14:10:00 Politics McConnell, Schumer to Determine Senate Power-Sharing Deal The two leaders are negotiating rules for a 50-50 Senate as it prepares to take up Biden’s cabinet nominees and a likely impeachment trial
2021-01-19 13:55:00 Markets After 144 Years, London Metal Exchange Proposes Closing Trading Ring Shift would bring greater transparency and broader participation, LME says
2021-01-19 13:54:00 World U.S. Says China Is Committing ‘Genocide’ Against Uighur Muslims State Department cites imprisonment, torture and forced sterilization against minority group, accusations Beijing has denied
2021-01-19 13:20:00 Politics Iranian Professor Charged With Violating Foreign-Agent Law Justice Department alleges academic who appeared on CNN and NPR and met with U.S. officials received a salary from Iran
2021-01-19 13:08:00 Opinion Angela Merkel’s Second Successor Armin Laschet and his party hope to keep the boring times rolling.
2021-01-19 12:49:00 Life & Arts Try This Simple Workout Routine to Build Better Fitness Habits The Wall Street Journal Fitness Challenge, a six-week program of exercises, is made for all ability levels
2021-01-19 12:43:00 Opinion Genocide in Xinjiang The U.S. has concluded that the Chinese Communist Party’s actions against the Uighurs also constitute crimes against humanity.
2021-01-19 12:42:00 Politics Trump’s Final Day in Office: Where Will He Go and What Comes Next? The president won’t attend Joe Biden’s inauguration but will participate in a send-off at Joint Base Andrews
2021-01-19 12:42:00 Opinion Biden Destroys Restaurants to Save Them Abolishing the tipped minimum wage would wipe out the benefit of his Covid grants.
2021-01-19 12:41:00 Opinion Covid Control Will Make or Break Biden To succeed, he’ll have to establish a chain of command and level with the public.
2021-01-19 12:34:00 Logistics Report China-Australia Dispute Leaves Coal Carriers Stranded Beijing is increasingly turning to Indonesia and other suppliers as a bar on Australia coal imports reshapes global trade in the commodity
2021-01-19 12:28:00 World WHO Criticized for Poor Pandemic Response by International Panel U.N. agency is hobbled by funding shortfalls and bureaucracy, says panel
2021-01-19 12:26:00 U.S. New CDC Director Pledges to Speed Vaccination, Restore Trust in Agency Rochelle Walensky will start as CDC director Wednesday after inauguration; ‘This is an emergency’
2021-01-19 12:00:00 Markets Electric-Truck Maker Rivian Raises $2.65 Billion Ahead of First Vehicle Launch Startup backed by Amazon and Ford is valued at $27.6 billion amid continuing tear for electric-vehicle companies
2021-01-19 11:13:00 Business FedEx Plans to Cut Up to 6,300 Jobs in Europe Job cuts aimed at removing overlap arising from acquisition of TNT package-delivery business
2021-01-19 11:10:00 Life & Arts Are ‘Luxury Mystery Boxes’ the Future of Discount Shopping? Upstart luxury liquidators like Heat and Scarce are offloading surplus clothing from labels like Off-White and Saint Laurent with a twist: The customers have no idea what they’re actually buying
2021-01-19 10:55:00 WSJ. Magazine Taking Care of Your Eyes In The Golden Age of Screen Time The eyes have had it. All that extra scrolling? It’s taking a toll.
2021-01-19 10:21:00 World Europe, Struggling to Exit the Pandemic, Faces Bleak 2021 With high infection rates and slow vaccination campaigns, hopes for an early end to lockdowns are fading
2021-01-19 10:02:00 Life & Arts Mets Fire General Manager Jared Porter After Report of Explicit Texts New owner Steve Cohen announced the move following publication of accusations that he sent unsolicited texts and images to a female journalist in 2016
2021-01-19 09:52:00 Economy China’s Consumers Fall Behind Even as Its Economy Marches Forward Economic rebound in year of Covid-19 was unbalanced; growth in domestic consumption lagged behind industrial and export sectors
2021-01-19 09:34:00 World Swiss Government Calls on Voters to Reject Burqa Ban in Referendum Vote scheduled for March comes as France and other European nations wrestle with question of how to integrate Muslims
2021-01-19 09:21:00 Markets Tesla, GameStop, Coherent: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today U.S. stocks are poised to open higher at the start of trading this week, after markets were closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day
2021-01-19 09:04:00 Life & Arts 2020 Led to Soul-Searching, Sparking Meaningful New Resolutions Stirred to action by the events of 2020, these people have undertaken ambitious plans for their careers and relationships in 2021
2021-01-19 09:00:00 Markets More Americans Face Retirement Insecurity A Boston College study shows the pandemic worsens an already grim trend
2021-01-19 08:58:00 Business China Clears Cisco-Acacia Deal With Conditions Approval removes regulatory barrier that nearly doomed deal between the two telecom-equipment companies
2021-01-19 08:45:00 Business Royal Caribbean to Sell Azamara Luxury Cruise Line for $201 Million Cruise operator says it seeks to focus on core brands as it works to resume operations that had been halted due to Covid-19
2021-01-19 08:40:00 Real Estate Developers Want Malls to Become Warehouses or Offices. It Is a Slog. Potential land mines await those seeking to raze and redevelop a space that spans dozens of football fields
2021-01-19 08:31:00 Markets Goldman Sachs Profit More Than Doubles, Powered by Trading Wall Street firm’s revenue of $11.74 billion was 18% above 2019’s fourth-quarter level
2021-01-19 08:07:00 Markets Money Managers Look to Blue Seas for Green Investments Fleet of specialist ships needed to build and service offshore wind farms is expected to grow in coming years
2021-01-19 08:04:00 Markets Stock Futures Rise as Earnings Season Ramps Up Goldman Sachs and Bank of America post earnings; Netflix is scheduled to report after hours
2021-01-19 08:02:00 Politics Biden’s Defense Nominee Faces Dual Challenge at Confirmation Hearing Gen. Lloyd Austin must show senators he is a qualified military leader—and dedicated to civilian control of the Pentagon
2021-01-19 08:00:00 Real Estate Blackstone’s Pre-Covid-19 Portfolio Shifts Have Turned Out Well The investment firm boosted exposure in hot industrial-space category and shifted out of retail and traditional office space
2021-01-19 07:38:00 Markets Bank of America Profit Falls 22% Still, lender posted higher-than-expected earnings in fourth quarter
2021-01-19 07:33:00 Markets Battle of the Robots Still Favors Japan and Europe—For Now Chinese robotics companies took market share last year amid the disruptions of the pandemic
2021-01-19 07:32:00 Politics Biden’s Inauguration Speech to Emphasize American Unity Outdoor address before empty National Mall will be secured by 25,000 National Guard troops after Trump supporters stormed Capitol
2021-01-19 07:24:00 World Great Lakes Pipeline Adds Heat to U.S.-Canada Energy Tensions Michigan has ordered Enbridge to close pipeline supplying Canada’s most populous region
2021-01-19 07:15:00 Business Office Depot Rebuffs Takeover Offer From Staples Parent of Office Depot proposes combining retail operations instead
2021-01-19 07:00:00 Politics Senate to Hold Confirmation Hearing for Avril Haines, Biden’s Pick for Intelligence Director If confirmed, she will be the first woman to oversee the U.S. intelligence community
2021-01-19 06:50:00 Markets Chinese Investors Pull More Than $3 Billion From Funds That Missed Out on Ant IPO Five mutual funds had touted access to Ant Group’s blockbuster initial public offering before the financial-technology giant’s listing was called off
2021-01-19 06:30:00 Markets Poshmark Keeps It Social in Sustainable E-Commerce Online platform combines all of retail’s hottest trends, but growth could be costly
2021-01-19 06:30:00 Markets When Investors Forget Fundamentals, the Market Is Broken Best explanation for how stocks have moved so far this year is the raw price of the stock, an almost meaningless number
2021-01-19 06:02:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Dollars Not Shares, Pet Product Bulls, Interior Design Mistakes Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2021-01-19 06:00:00 Politics Yellen Will Urge Lawmakers to ‘Act Big’ to Avert a Protracted Downturn Biden’s pick for Treasury secretary is set to testify in nomination hearing before Senate panel
2021-01-19 05:30:00 Markets U.S. Corporate-Bond Rally Rolls Into 2021 Investor bets that highly rated companies will endure the pandemic are driving one key bond-market measure to pre-pandemic levels
2021-01-19 05:30:00 Business McDonald’s, Chick-fil-A, Popeyes and Other Chains Bite Into the Fervor for Chicken Sandwiches The new menu items offer a potential lift for fast-food restaurants and suppliers facing Covid-19 disruptions
2021-01-19 04:30:00 World Covid-19 Heightens U.S.-China Rivalry, New Report Says The World Economic Forum report says the pandemic risks widening income disparities world-wide
2021-01-19 03:35:00 Markets Emerging Markets Have Less Reason to Fear the Fed A more cautious Federal Reserve, a less cheap dollar and moderate foreign-money inflows make a ‘taper tantrum’ like that of 2013 less likely
2021-01-18 21:26:00 Tech Before Suicide, French Programmer Made Bitcoin Bequest to Pro-Trump Groups FBI has been briefed on mysterious transactions as it investigates potential foreign funding of far-right groups in the U.S., according to people familiar with the matter
2021-01-18 18:51:00 Politics Census Director Steven Dillingham Resigns Watchdog had questioned data requests relating to Trump’s push to exclude unauthorized immigrants from aspect of decennial count
2021-01-18 18:17:00 Opinion They Did Their Jobs Well Pence, Kudlow, Rao, Pai and more: Here are the Trump appointees and policies that served the country.
2021-01-18 18:15:00 Opinion Harvard Accuses Elise Stefanik A dean declares a congresswoman unfit to serve as an adviser at her alma mater.
2021-01-18 18:13:00 Opinion It Took a Strong America to Survive 2020 But formidable global challenges await Joe Biden as he moves into the White House.
2021-01-18 18:11:00 Opinion Justices May Usher In the Modern Broadcast Age—Two Decades Late Since 2003, two activist judges on the Third Circuit have been arbitrarily stalling FCC innovation.
2021-01-18 18:10:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: Lies and Double Standards ‘This issue is important and complex enough that I’m going to make today’s newsletter a bit longer than usual.’
2021-01-18 17:54:00 Books ‘The Spotify Play’ Review: Better Than Piracy Daniel Ek wanted to bring Napster’s idea of a musical smorgasbord into the world of legal streaming. Would record labels play along?
2021-01-18 17:26:00 Markets Renaissance Says Losses Should Have Been Expected at Some Point Quant hedge fund tells clients that drop of 20% to 30% was partly due to increased volatility
2021-01-18 16:35:00 Politics Trump Weighs Many Pardons as Presidency Winds Down President expected to issue as many as 100 pardons and commutations, but leans against some controversial grants at urging of advisers
2021-01-18 16:22:00 Politics Yellen Calls for More Aid to Avoid Longer, More Painful Recession Biden’s pick to lead Treasury says Congress must ‘act big’ to boost economic recovery, fend off ‘long-term scarring’
2021-01-18 16:10:00 Business Oil Giant Total Buys Stake in World’s Biggest Solar Developer French energy company to pay $2.5 billion for 20% of Adani Green Energy
2021-01-18 16:06:00 Opinion Private Companies Regulate Public Discourse If Vivek Ramaswamy and Jed Rubenfeld are correct that social-media companies are state actors, the policy of a free and open internet, embodied in the Telecommunications Act of 1996, is dead.
2021-01-18 16:05:00 Opinion Nonstop Stimulus Is a Progressive’s Nirvana Phil Gramm and Mike Solon argue that stimulus spending is all about political, not economic outcomes.
2021-01-18 15:27:00 A-hed Combine Chrysler, Fiat, Peugeot and You Get Stellantis. Stella-What? Three storied auto makers start trading with a new name. It’ll probably grow on you.
2021-01-18 15:08:00 Opinion Navalny’s Arrest and the West More than rhetorical protests will be needed to get Putin’s attention.
2021-01-18 15:05:00 Opinion About China’s Booming* GDP *Good data mask dangerous imbalances that are growing worse.
2021-01-18 14:20:00 Politics Harris Will Balance Roles as Counselor to Biden, Tiebreaker in Senate The new vice president will spend much of her time helping to shepherd the Biden agenda through a 50-50 Senate
2021-01-18 14:11:00 Politics Blinken’s Ties to Biden Will Make Him a Unique Secretary of State Relationship with President-elect spans two decades, although they haven’t always seen eye-to-eye; confirmation hearing set for Tuesday
2021-01-18 14:05:00 Business Sen. Josh Hawley Strikes Book Deal With Regnery After Capitol Riot Backlash Regnery will publish the Missouri Republican’s book on technology companies after Simon & Schuster canceled its deal
2021-01-18 13:54:00 Deals Lumentum in Advanced Talks to Buy Laser Maker Coherent Cash-and-stock deal could be announced this week; Coherent has a market value of $3.7 billion
2021-01-18 13:29:00 World Norway Warns Against Vaccinating the Terminally Ill Authorities have reported 23 cases of elderly recipients suffering from serious medical conditions dying days after being inoculated
2021-01-18 13:07:00 World Navalny Urges Protests Against His Detention in Russia Opposition leader was detained on his return to Russia after surviving a poison attack last August
2021-01-18 12:40:00 U.S. What’s on Biden’s Business and Economic To-Do List Higher corporate tax rates, clean-energy initiatives and more will likely have to wait for Covid-19 stimulus
2021-01-18 12:36:00 Business Tesla Starts Delivering China-Made Model Y Crossover Model Y is the second vehicle Tesla is making in China, the world’s biggest EV market
2021-01-18 12:06:00 Business Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit Reaches Space With Unconventional Rocket-Launch System Startup deploys tiny satellites into orbit in successful demonstration flight
2021-01-18 12:00:00 Life & Arts Covid Face Masks Are Disrupting a Key Tool of Human Communications, New Research Shows Take a quiz to guess the emotions behind the masks
2021-01-18 11:41:00 World Saudi Arabia Curbs Death Penalty in Move to Soften Image The kingdom imposed a moratorium on capital punishment for drug-related offenses
2021-01-18 11:31:00 Experience Report Pizza Hut Hopes Drop Zones Can Help Bring Drone Delivery to Fruition Drivers, not hungry customers, will collect pies from the sky in an Israeli trial
2021-01-18 11:01:00 Life & Arts U.S. Figure Skaters Punched Their Tickets to the Worlds—If It Happens The coronavirus pandemic has shredded the international competition calendar, and the mess will run all the way to the 2022 Olympics
2021-01-18 10:17:00 Politics Amid Crises, Biden and the Establishment Step Back In President-elect, Pelosi, Schumer and McConnell have known each other for decades. But are they really in control?
2021-01-18 10:00:00 CFO Journal More Finance Chiefs Resigned in 2020 Than in Previous Years Thirty-seven CFOs stepped down from S&P 500 companies, up 27.6% from 2019
2021-01-18 09:50:00 Politics Biden’s Climate Plan to Get a Boost From Democrat-Led Senate But with Democrats holding a razor-thin margin, GOP and industry support likely still needed
2021-01-18 09:46:00 Opinion Blacklists Are the Rage in Publishing Why the house I run will bring out Josh Hawley’s new book.
2021-01-18 09:46:00 Markets Dollar Rises but Traders Expect Strength to Be Short-Lived Greenback edged higher after Journal reported that Janet Yellen would diverge from Trump’s weaker-dollar-is-better stance
2021-01-18 09:38:00 Opinion Covid Relief, Italian-Style The ruling coalition collapses in a fight over spending EU money.
2021-01-18 09:36:00 Opinion The Flint Water Indictments Years later, Democratic prosecutors charge former Gov. Rick Snyder.
2021-01-18 09:19:00 Markets Jeep-Maker Stellantis Needs to Go Global Car giant formed from the merger of Fiat Chrysler and French peer PSA can make valuable cost savings but also has some expensive problems
2021-01-18 08:51:00 Life & Arts The Geezer, Still a Goat: Ageless Tom Brady’s at It Again A Hall of Fame quarterback has a new team in yet another conference title game. Green Bay looms
2021-01-18 08:35:00 Arts Morgan Wallen Tops Charts Driving Surge in Country Music Streaming The 27-year-old star breaks record for most streams by a country album in a week
2021-01-18 08:30:00 Life & Arts Productivity Tips for Procrastinators The pandemic and working from home have sapped motivation at work for many. Here are some ways to tackle a growing to-do list.
2021-01-18 08:30:00 Life & Arts Ten Global Consumer Trends for 2021 Spurred by the Covid-19 pandemic, outdoor pursuits, digital convenience and safety obsession are seen having a lasting impact
2021-01-18 08:00:00 Markets Biotech’s Price Tag Is Crazy but Not Insane Startup Sana Biotechnology could go public at a $10 billion valuation. Recent history suggests the high price tag may be worth it.
2021-01-18 07:00:00 Markets Intel’s Recovery Will Demand More Than Just Engineering Skills Turning around the chip maker will require not only sorting out manufacturing problems but also selling stakeholders on tough decisions about the company’s future
2021-01-18 07:00:00 U.S. Capitol Riot Becomes Civics Lessons in Schools Teachers face difficult questions from students; others point to the need for better civics curriculum, funding
2021-01-18 06:57:00 World France, Once a Vaccine Pioneer, Is Top Skeptic in Covid-19 Pandemic Covid-19 vaccination campaign off to a glacial start, as it meets some of the world’s highest skepticism rates. ‘I can’t be the guinea pig.’
2021-01-18 06:00:00 CMO Today Shareholder Proposal at Omnicom Questions Ad Buyers’ Role in Online Hate Omnicom and Home Depot shareholders filed resolutions calling for their companies to investigate whether their ad buys lead to ‘violations of civil or human rights’
2021-01-18 05:57:00 World Capitol Riot Shakes Pro-Democracy Campaigners World-Wide Rivals cite America’s election unrest as evidence that their political systems are superior
2021-01-18 05:50:00 World China Still Grew and Fueled Its Rise as Covid-19 Shook the Global Economy GDP rose 2.3% last year, making China the only major world economy to record gains
2021-01-18 05:30:00 Business These Companies Want to Charge Your Electric Vehicle as You Drive Auto makers and utilities hope wireless charging on roads can calm EV-range anxiety, but questions remain about costs
2021-01-18 05:30:00 Business Your Movie Is About to Be…Delayed, Again ‘Spider-Man’ spinoff is latest movie to be delayed amid Covid-19 surge as industry faces pileup of unreleased films
2021-01-18 05:30:00 Markets U.K. Gets In on Global M&A Surge Investors bet on higher offers for Entain, G4S, Signature Aviation
2021-01-18 05:30:00 Life & Arts The Kansas City Chiefs Won—and Lost Patrick Mahomes The Kansas City Chiefs advanced to the AFC Championship but their superstar quarterback left with a concussion. History shows it may be difficult for him to return in time.
2021-01-18 05:30:00 U.S. For Joe Biden, Daunting—and Unprecedented—Challenges The new president faces a global pandemic and a large group of people who have been convinced his election isn’t legitimate. And that’s just the start of it.
2021-01-18 05:29:00 Markets China’s Growth: Don’t Mistake the Cyclical for the Structural China handled the pandemic well, but it was also lucky. A strong 2021 seems assured, but 2022 and beyond could be challenging.
2021-01-18 05:25:00 World Argentina Is a Testing Ground for Moscow’s Global Vaccine Drive First major country outside Russia to begin mass inoculation against Covid-19 using Sputnik despite questions about the shot’s efficacy
2021-01-18 04:56:00 Markets Global Stocks Pause as Investors Await Earnings Flurry European stocks edged lower amid concerns about Covid-19 restrictions, but Chinese shares rose after strong economic data
2021-01-18 04:52:00 Business Jay Y. Lee, Samsung’s De Facto Leader, Returns to Prison in Bribery Case Samsung is rudderless for the second time in four years
2021-01-17 22:48:00 Economy China Is the Only Major Economy to Report Economic Growth for 2020 GDP rises 6.5% from a year earlier in the fourth quarter
2021-01-17 21:26:00 Markets Record Liquefied Natural Gas Prices in Asia Won’t Last A cold snap and a supply crunch have created a perfect storm, but the pendulum is likely to swing the other way soon
2021-01-17 20:52:00 Politics Biden Is Expected to Pick Rohit Chopra to Lead Consumer-Finance Agency Chopra is the former student-loan watchdog at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
2021-01-17 19:44:00 Business Keystone XL Oil Project Pledges Zero Carbon Emissions Controversial pipeline would be powered by renewables, built by union labor in bid to avoid ax from Biden
2021-01-17 19:39:00 U.S. Far-Right Affiliations Seen Among Those Recently Charged in Capitol Riot Alleged members of Oath Keepers, Three Percenters join Proud Boys on federal charge sheets
2021-01-17 16:48:00 Opinion Joe Biden’s Early Test From Moscow and Beijing An expiring arms-control deal is a chance to address hypersonics and make China come to the table.
2021-01-17 16:37:00 Opinion There’s as Much to Learn From Trump’s Success as His Disgrace Responsible leaders made his election possible by creating a vacuum that a demagogue could fill.
2021-01-17 16:31:00 Business NASA’s Delayed Deep-Space Rocket Suffers Test Failure on the Ground Latest setback for mammoth booster adds to challenges for prime contractor Boeing’s space ambitions
2021-01-17 16:00:00 Markets Yellen to Make Clear U.S. Doesn’t Seek Weak Dollar Treasury secretary nominee, at Senate confirmation hearing, will affirm commitment to market-determined dollar value
2021-01-17 16:00:00 Life & Arts A Workout for Your Mental Health Keep stress from the Covid pandemic and other events under control by sticking with these daily practices
2021-01-17 15:49:00 World Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny Detained Upon Return to Moscow Prominent Putin critic had been in Germany after a near-fatal poisoning attack in August
2021-01-17 15:00:00 Economy Economy Week Ahead: China GDP, Housing, Central Banks Most of the world expects data on tap to reflect the impact of the latest Covid-19 surge
2021-01-17 14:28:00 World Phil Spector, Pop-Music Revolutionary Who Later Was Convicted of Murder, Dies at 81 Producer transformed pop and rock with his ‘wall of sound’ technique; hits included ‘You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’’ and ‘Be My Baby’
2021-01-17 14:26:00 U.S. Proud Boys, Seizing Trump’s Call to Washington, Helped Lead Capitol Attack Far-right group invoked the president’s rhetoric to build momentum toward violent showdown, a Wall Street Journal review shows
2021-01-17 14:00:00 U.S. Will Covid-19 Shake Up Capitalism? The pandemic sped up demands for changes in the economic system. Shareholders might want to brace for change.
2021-01-17 13:54:00 World Brazil Starts Its Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout Chinese and AstraZeneca-Oxford shots earn health regulator’s approval for emergency use
2021-01-17 13:19:00 U.S. Former Florida Covid-19 Data Scientist Faces Arrest Rebekah Jones said on Twitter that she planned on surrendering herself to custody Sunday evening
2021-01-17 11:56:00 U.S. Oil-and-Gas Industry Faces a Slow Recovery From Pandemic Lows Spending on oil production world-wide isn’t expected to climb back up to pre-pandemic levels through at least 2025
2021-01-17 10:30:00 WSJ. Magazine The 12 Entertainers and Artists Who Will Define 2021 Breakout authors, actors, directors, artists and musicians who are set to have career-making years. WSJ. Magazine’s “12 for ’21”
2021-01-17 10:30:00 CFO Journal Zoom CFO Opts for Equity Raise Instead of Debt Sale to Keep Options Open The software company known for its videoconferencing tool raised $2 billion in its first fundraising since going public
2021-01-17 10:00:00 Life & Arts Covid-19 Vaccine: What You Need to Know When You Get the Shot Doctors answer questions about preparing for the Covid-19 vaccine
2021-01-17 10:00:00 Politics Black Women Ready to Virtually Cheer On Kamala Harris’s Inauguration President-elect Joe Biden and Ms. Harris will be sworn into office during a scaled-back inauguration in a heavily fortified Washington
2021-01-17 08:48:00 Economy Covid-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Business Travel Is Projected to Last for Years Decline in corporate trips and conferences is hitting whole ecosystems of related commerce
2021-01-17 08:30:00 WSJ. Magazine Who Is Alexandra Andrews? The Breakout Novelist to Know This Year Part Elena Ferrante, part Patricia Highsmith–themed thriller, ‘Who Is Maud Dixon?’ is set to be one of the buzziest debut novels of the year
2021-01-17 08:00:00 Tech 5G Rivals Face an $81 Billion Tab After Spectrum Buying Spree AT&T, Verizon expected to turn to bond markets and banks to finance bids in record-setting FCC airwaves auction
2021-01-17 08:00:00 Logistics Report Commentary: Taxation May Be Global Shipping’s Upcoming Game Changer Subjecting shipping to a global minimum tax would reverse decades of tax avoidance by the sector, writes Olaf Merk of the International Transport Forum
2021-01-17 08:00:00 Business In China, Tech-Worker Deaths Spark Online Backlash Criticism of companies grows after workers expose marathon hours, labor disputes
2021-01-17 07:32:00 World India Tests Vaccine Superpowers With Covid-19 Inoculation Drive South Asian nation plans to inoculate hundreds of millions in coming months
2021-01-17 07:00:00 Tech Social-Media Algorithms Rule How We See the World. Good Luck Trying to Stop Them. What you see in your feeds isn’t up to you. What’s at stake is no longer just missing a birthday. It’s your sanity—and world peace.
2021-01-17 07:00:00 Economy China’s Economic Recovery Belies a Lingering Productivity Challenge State investments to fuel growth are amplifying slowing growth in productivity, an IMF report finds
2021-01-17 06:00:00 Politics Senate GOP Set to Argue Out-of-Office Trump Can’t be Convicted in Impeachment New report suggests most scholars are on the other side; trial could start this week
2021-01-17 06:00:00 Business Latest Covid-19 Lockdown Slams U.K. Business Owners Shifting pandemic rules make it hard to plan on inventory and staffing. And then there is Brexit.
2021-01-17 05:30:00 Markets After Stock Surge, Investors Ask Companies What’s Ahead Rise of major indexes despite the worsening toll of the pandemic underscores the pressure on big companies
2021-01-16 18:59:00 World Mexico’s Move to Clear Cienfuegos of Drug Trafficking Faulted by U.S. Justice Department says release of evidence alleging former defense minister’s involvement undermines sharing of information
2021-01-16 18:37:00 Politics Man With Gun, Ammunition Arrested at Capitol Checkpoint Police stopped Virginia man at entrance to a secure perimeter erected after Jan. 6 riot
2021-01-16 18:27:00 Pro Bankruptcy Judge Calls Venezuela’s $1 Billion Nonpayment to Creditor an Affront to U.S. Courts A federal judge established a sale process for Venezuela’s stake in Citgo Petroleum, though no transaction can occur under current Treasury Department rules
2021-01-16 18:02:00 Politics Biden’s First 10 Days to Focus on Covid-19, Economy, Environment and Racial Equity New administration aims to reverse many of Trump’s policies with flurry of executive actions
2021-01-16 14:32:00 World Palestinian Leader Calls First Vote in 15 Years, Amid Hopes to Heal Rift With U.S. The ballot could help bolster ties with the Biden administration, but divisions between Fatah and Hamas could yet scuttle the election
2021-01-16 14:12:00 Business Fiat Chrysler, PSA Group Merge to Create New Auto-Making Behemoth The newly formed auto maker, called Stellantis, to start trading Monday in Europe and Tuesday in New York
2021-01-16 13:35:00 World Ugandan President Claims Sixth Election Victory as Opposition Alleged Rigging The violent race pitched one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders against a populist whose message of change galvanized the country’s youth
2021-01-16 12:46:00 Election 2020 Pro-Trump Discussion Board Faces Possible Shutdown Over Violent, Racist Posts Web-hosting company says TheDonald.Win must clean up; domain’s owner says he has effectively lost control of it
2021-01-16 12:40:00 U.S. Solo Extremists Might Pose Higher Risk Than Organized Groups Far-right leaders urge followers to stay away from capitals where law-enforcement presence will be high through the presidential inauguration
2021-01-16 12:05:00 U.S. Foreign Investors Expect the Dollar to Remain Weak Under Biden Increased stimulus spending could play a role in further softening of the U.S. currency
2021-01-16 12:01:00 Life & Arts Robots Turn 100—and Still Enthrall Us The intelligent, human-like machines long promised by science fiction still don’t exist, but they’ve played an important role in the modern imagination.
2021-01-16 12:00:00 Tech Are Videogames the Future of Remote Work? One day soon, you may hear a colleague say those ominous words: ‘The boss would like to see you in her castle’
2021-01-16 12:00:00 Life & Arts Pajamas Are the New Sweatpants—How to Wear Them Everywhere Men and women are trading their sad WFH uniforms for snazzy sleepwear, spending every waking hour in snugly bliss. These expert tips will help you style PJs for almost any socially distant activity.
2021-01-16 12:00:00 Personal Board of Directors Who Taught Wharton’s Business School Dean Some Important Life Lessons Advisers helped guide Erika James through the hallways of academia to one of the most prestigious posts in the Ivy League
2021-01-16 12:00:00 U.S. The Five Biggest Issues for Technology Companies in 2021 Antitrust lawsuits and maintaining growth are among the challenges, while electric vehicles and government help for U.S. chip makers are seen as bright spots.
2021-01-16 12:00:00 Politics An Old Foe of Banks Could Be Wall Street’s New Top Cop Gary Gensler is expected to be Joe Biden’s pick to take over the Securities and Exchange Commission. ‘He will do things that are controversial.’
2021-01-16 10:00:00 Life & Arts The Porsche He Wanted Wasn’t Sold in the U.S. So He Built One. The clothing brand founder has spent years turning his 1995 911 Carrera RS tribute into the perfect driving experience
2021-01-16 10:00:00 Politics Biden to Eclipse Reagan as Oldest President as Washington Leadership Ages The average age in the Senate went from 54.4 to 62.9 years between 1987 and 2019, Congressional Research Service data show
2021-01-16 10:00:00 Markets Regulators Are Fed Up With Food-Delivery Fees Regulators say consumers often pay too much for the price of convenience in food delivery
2021-01-16 09:29:00 World Switzerland to Hold Referendum on Covid-19 Lockdown The vote, which could be held as soon as June, tests government’s legal powers and is latest example of Switzerland’s direct democracy
2021-01-16 09:00:00 Politics Some GOP Freshmen Mock Masks, Embrace Gun Rights, Spar With Colleagues Lawmakers including Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert stir controversy over divisive issues, including election challenge
2021-01-16 09:00:00 Tech Discord Chat App Is Safer Now for Kids but Still Lacks Parental Controls Chat platform popular with gamers tries to shed anything-goes image; safety expert says, ‘I would give them a B+’
2021-01-16 08:30:00 WSJ. Magazine Pakistani Artist Salman Toor’s Success Was a Surprise Even to Him The young artist, celebrated for a smash-hit Whitney Museum show and a fresh approach to figurative painting, on his significant year ahead
2021-01-16 08:13:00 U.S. You Can Go Back to the Ballpark—for a Covid Vaccination Many Major League Baseball franchises are offering their facilities up as vaccination super sites. What happens when baseball season starts?
2021-01-16 08:00:00 Life & Arts These Fashion Influencers Say ‘Don’t Buy Anything’ Or at the very least, buy less. How a new wave of bloggers is rejecting the head-to-toe designer mentality.
2021-01-16 08:00:00 World American Students’ Love Affair With China Cools as Political Tensions Rise A decline in interest coincides with a deterioration in relations between Beijing and Washington
2021-01-16 07:36:00 World Merkel’s Party Chooses Continuity by Appointing Centrist Leader New party chairman Armin Laschet is expected to adopt the German chancellor’s legacy of middle-of-the-road pragmatism
2021-01-16 07:00:00 Exhibition Review 400 Years of Music, One Destination Nashville’s new National Museum of African American Music enshrines gospel, R&B and all that jazz.
2021-01-16 05:30:00 Business Groceries Prove a Pandemic Bright Spot for BP and Shell Oil majors bet offering more fresh food and services at gas-station stores can help offset declining oil income
2021-01-16 05:30:00 Markets Chinese Property Developers Have Huge Debts to Refinance The country’s real-estate firms need to repay up to an estimated $53.5 billion of offshore debt this year
2021-01-16 05:29:00 World U.A.E. Pushes Ahead With Chinese Covid-19 Vaccine, Hoping to Avoid Lockdowns as Cases Surge The Gulf nation expects to vaccinate half its population before the end of March
2021-01-16 02:37:00 U.S. U.S. Carries Out Last Execution of Trump’s Term Dustin Higgs, the 13th and final federal inmate to die before President Trump leaves office, was executed after the Supreme Court gave its approval
2021-01-15 19:31:00 Arts Tom Hanks, Lady Gaga, J. Lo and Others Will Entertain at Joe Biden’s Inauguration Stars will perform at the ceremony and host a variety of star-studded concerts and fundraisers over several days
2021-01-15 19:05:00 U.S. FAA Approves First Fully Automated Commercial Drone Flights American Robotics granted permission to operate drones without hands-on piloting
2021-01-15 18:58:00 U.S. National Rifle Association Files for Bankruptcy Gun-rights group plans to move to Texas amid legal battle with New York’s attorney general
2021-01-15 18:50:00 Markets Alphabet, Intel, Exxon Mobil: Stocks That Defined the Week Here are seven major companies whose stocks moved on the news
2021-01-15 18:48:00 Opinion Biden’s First Spending Blowout He doubles Obama’s 2009 plan even as the economy is poised to take off in 2021.
2021-01-15 18:44:00 Opinion Boss Madigan Falls at Last Illinois gets a new House speaker, but the system of public-union dominance survives.
2021-01-15 18:42:00 Opinion Betsy DeVos’s Education Record She did much good for school choice and due process on campus.
2021-01-15 18:41:00 Opinion The 1776 Report A Trump commission tries to correct the historical record.
2021-01-15 18:28:00 Politics No Federal Charges in Case of Nine Discarded Pennsylvania Ballots DOJ cites insufficient evidence of criminal intent in case that drew Trump’s ire
2021-01-15 18:27:00 Books ‘Rock Force’ Review: Proving MacArthur’s Valor ‘I will return,’ vowed the general. To make that happen required a daring attack from the sky.
2021-01-15 18:23:00 U.S. U.S. Won’t Penalize Vietnam for Alleged Currency Manipulation USTR holds fire despite citing harm done to American businesses
2021-01-15 18:20:00 Books ‘A Holy Baptism of Fire & Blood’ Review: The Civil War’s Biblical Violence What prompted so many ordinary Americans to march to war? A belief in a sacred cause.
2021-01-15 18:06:00 Markets Capital One Fined for Anti-Money-Laundering Deficiencies Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network said the bank admitted it had failed to maintain effective controls in a check-cashing business
2021-01-15 17:38:00 Politics Kudlow Criticizes Trump for Handling of Riot, Treatment of Pence President’s top economic adviser faulted his boss for recent actions, praised administration policy legacy on taxes and trade
2021-01-15 17:11:00 Opinion Mainstream Media Partisanship Comes to Voice of America VOA aired a ‘news’ report in Pakistan that was no more than a repackaged Biden campaign ad.
2021-01-15 17:11:00 Opinion How the Left Hijacked Civil Rights For centuries black Americans debated how to overcome racism—but they always emphasized human agency and individual responsibility.
2021-01-15 17:10:00 Tech Amazon, a Longtime E-Book Discounter, Is Accused of Driving Up the Price of E-Books Lawsuit alleges pricing deal between e-commerce giant and top five publishers hurts competition
2021-01-15 17:08:00 Opinion What WHO Won’t Learn From China Beijing likes the story that Covid began elsewhere but at least it could tell us about the virus in China today.
2021-01-15 16:55:00 Politics ‘QAnon Shaman’ Left Pence Threatening Note at Capitol Riot, Prosecutors Say Authorities are seeking to keep Jacob Chansley detained until he faces a trial on charges connected to the siege by Trump supporters
2021-01-15 16:54:00 Politics Biden Outlines Plan for Bigger Federal Role in Covid-19 Vaccinations Will expand use of Defense Production Act to increase production of vaccines, vaccination supplies
2021-01-15 16:42:00 Politics Start Date of Trump Impeachment Trial Still Uncertain Pelosi provides no guidance on when article will be sent to Senate, which will also juggle Biden nominees and Covid-19 aid
2021-01-15 16:38:00 World Mexico Accuses U.S. of Fabricating Drug-Trafficking Charges Against General President López Obrador criticizes DEA after Mexican attorney general’s office decided not to prosecute Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos
2021-01-15 16:37:00 Opinion Capitol Events and Excusing Violent Actions The reporters and commentators who are indignant about Trump supporters threatening the rule of law sang a different tune last year in reaction to hundreds of major antifa and Black Lives Matter protests that were “mostly peaceful.”
2021-01-15 16:36:00 Opinion ‘Exodus’ Not the Model for Parsing America Leon Kass’s assertion that “For most of its history, America was a nation characterized by reverence as much as by liberty” belies history.
2021-01-15 16:35:00 Opinion St. Lawrence’s Tears and the Perseid Meteors Medieval language was rich with allegory and metaphor, and those of the time often drew such types of connections to natural phenomena.
2021-01-15 16:35:00 Markets Biden Stimulus Adds Fuel to Copper Rally Prices lifted by buoyant demand from China and wagers on improving global economy
2021-01-15 16:31:00 Politics Trump Spends Final Days Focused on GOP Defectors, Senate Defense The president and allies are simultaneously preparing for his White House departure and Senate trial
2021-01-15 16:23:00 Politics Biden Covid-19 Relief Plan Aims to Ease Poverty, Advance Democratic Priorities President-elect’s $1.9 trillion proposal would help low-income families while also eyeing long-term policy goals
2021-01-15 16:17:00 CFO Journal Chubb Taps Investment Banker as Next Finance Chief Peter Enns will become CFO of the insurance company, succeeding Philip Bancroft
2021-01-15 16:07:00 Business Mobile Game Company Playtika’s Shares Rise 17% in Debut Company’s IPO fueled by growth in at-home games and demand for new share offerings
2021-01-15 16:06:00 World Vaccine Shortfall to Hit Europe, Canada as Pfizer Plant Is Upgraded Governments incensed at rescheduling of deliveries, accuse companies of reneging on contracts
2021-01-15 15:41:00 Tech WhatsApp Delays New Privacy Policy Rollout After User Backlash, Confusion Facebook-owned messaging service acknowledges confusion among users over changes in its handling of data
2021-01-15 15:41:00 CIO Journal Enterprise Tech Startups Among Big Winners in Recent VC Deals U.S. internet sector landed some $15 billion in funding in the fourth quarter, spurred in part by pandemic’s impact on digital-focused initiatives
2021-01-15 14:54:00 CFO Journal AMC Networks Names ViacomCBS Executive as Its New Finance Chief Christina Spade left ViacomCBS in December, one year after merger close
2021-01-15 14:40:00 Opinion The Biden Blowout Who voted for this?
2021-01-15 14:24:00 Health Policy Covid-19 Vaccine Leaders Waited Months to Approve Distribution Plans Holdup left states with little time to develop mass-vaccination plan; U.S. says it needed time for interagency clearance
2021-01-15 14:18:00 Business France Blocks $20 Billion Takeover of Carrefour by Canada’s Couche-Tard Concern about jobs and nation’s food security scuttles retailer’s sale
2021-01-15 14:15:00 U.S. Federal Agencies, Congress Launch Reviews Into Handling of Capitol Riots Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré enlisted to lead congressional probe; inspectors general at Justice, Homeland Security, Defense and Interior departments to probe possible weaknesses
2021-01-15 14:07:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Former Petrofac Executive Pleads Guilty to Three Counts of Bribery The charges were related to corrupt offers and payments worth about $3.3 billion, according to the U.K. Serious Fraud Office
2021-01-15 13:54:00 Masterpiece An Embattled Statue, Under Siege Vinnie Ream’s sculpture of Abraham Lincoln, which appeared in photos from the recent Capitol riots, has long had its detractors; now the time is ripe for a positive reassessment.
2021-01-15 13:53:00 Life & Arts America Made by Hand A new exhibition at Arkansas’s Crystal Bridges Museum explores the art of craft.
2021-01-15 13:20:00 Markets America’s Big Banks Girded for a Wave of Bad Loans. They’re Still Waiting. JPMorgan, Citigroup, Wells Fargo all reported better-than-expected earnings. Reserve releases and Wall Street powered the results.
2021-01-15 13:12:00 World Ugandan Presidential Candidate Bobi Wine Says Soldiers Stormed His Home Musician-turned-lawmaker reports raid after election, raising fears of unrest with results expected Saturday
2021-01-15 13:12:00 Life & Arts Activist Annie Duflo Uses Data and Incentives to Fight Global Poverty The executive director of Innovations for Poverty Action argues that rigorous experiments can produce better policies to help solve seemingly intractable development problems
2021-01-15 13:09:00 Life & Arts These 5 Cheeses Will Transport You to France While you’re waiting for the borders to reopen, why not take a culinary trip by way of French fromages? Here, five tantalizing, regional tastes handpicked by one of France’s top cheesemongers.
2021-01-15 13:00:00 Business Walmart E-commerce Boss Marc Lore to Leave Jet.com founder joined to run an Amazon counterattack, but much of his e-commerce operations had been folded into Walmart’s store business
2021-01-15 12:58:00 Books ‘The Lives of Lucian Freud, Vol. 2’ Review: Chaos and Character A painter’s journey from enfant terrible to the great portraitist of his age.
2021-01-15 12:51:00 Books ‘Boomers’ Review: Eminent Aquarians The Baby Boom cohort inherited postwar American prosperity. What have they done with it?
2021-01-15 12:46:00 Politics IRS Will Start Accepting Tax Returns Feb. 12, Later Than Usual Delayed start to tax season due to Covid-relief legislation means refunds will be delayed
2021-01-15 12:39:00 Opinion The ‘Common Carrier’ Solution to Social-Media Censorship Railroads can’t refuse to carry passengers for their political views. The same rule should apply to online monopolies, legal scholar Richard Epstein argues.
2021-01-15 12:36:00 Opinion New York, I Love You, but We Can’t Go On Like This The Empire State and its biggest city need a financial and political intervention before it’s too late.
2021-01-15 12:36:00 Markets Ethanol Lobbyists Don’t Want to Be Labeled Makers and owners of boats, motorcycles and other equipment that can be harmed by high ethanol blends want more prominent warning
2021-01-15 12:27:00 Markets More Cash Means More Problems for Big Banks Large lenders like JPMorgan Chase are sitting on much more cash than they need
2021-01-15 12:13:00 Real Estate How to Decorate Around Home Gym Equipment Treadmill or exercise bike threatening to scuttle your interior-design plan? It doesn’t have to. Here, strategies to finesse the gym that’s landed in your bedroom.
2021-01-15 12:11:00 Politics Inauguration Guide: Schedule of Events, Performances and How to Watch Organizers have planned a mix of in-person and virtual events for the start of Joe Biden’s presidency
2021-01-15 12:06:00 World Mexican Former Defense Minister Cleared of Drug Allegations Mexican attorney general’s office finds no evidence Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos protected or aided cartel members
2021-01-15 12:02:00 U.S. What U.S.-Europe Relations Under Biden May Look Like Among other things, the new administration likely will halt a Trump plan to withdraw 12,000 troops from Germany
2021-01-15 11:57:00 Markets Stimulus Checks Can’t Come Soon Enough for U.S. Retailers Holiday retail sales slump boosts the argument for Biden administration’s stimulus plans
2021-01-15 11:31:00 Life & Arts The World Needs a Real Investigation Into the Origins of Covid-19 A team of WHO researchers has arrived in China but won’t investigate the possibility that the coronavirus originated in a lab.
2021-01-15 11:18:00 A-hed How to Make a Movie About the Covid-19 Pandemic During the Pandemic The question: Does anyone want to see on screen what they experience every day?
2021-01-15 11:17:00 Books Mysteries: ‘Pickard County Atlas’ Review Chris Harding Thornton’s debut follows a sheriff’s deputy in a town full of troubles.
2021-01-15 11:15:00 Books ‘Trio’ Review: A Cinematic Novel from William Boyd Vanity, rivalry, sexual jealousy—and a producer who consoles himself with drink.
2021-01-15 11:13:00 Books ‘Devils, Lusts & Strange Desires’ Review: The Elusive Patricia Highsmith The personality of her most famous character, Tom Ripley, echoed a more mysterious creation: Highsmith herself.
2021-01-15 11:10:00 Business More Restaurants Resist Indoor-Dining Bans as Restrictions Remain States have stepped up enforcement of the rules, heightening the risk for restaurants
2021-01-15 11:03:00 Books Fiction: ‘That Old Country Music’ Review Kevin Barry’s Ireland-set short stories, and two more new collections.
2021-01-15 11:03:00 WSJ Logistics Report Today’s Logistics Report: YRC’s Heavyweight Aid; Fighting for Chips; Vetting Suppliers Today’s Top Supply Chain & Logistics News from WSJ
2021-01-15 11:01:00 World Dutch Prime Minister Resigns Over Child-Benefits Scandal Thousands of families in the Netherlands have been wrongly accused of child benefit fraud since 2012
2021-01-15 11:01:00 Books Five Best: Hermione Lee on Real Lives Reimagined Selected by the author of the forthcoming ‘Tom Stoppard: A Life.’
2021-01-15 11:00:00 Life & Arts Where Trump Came From—and Where Trumpism Is Going A populist movement rooted in worries about globalization and alienation from elites culminated in the storming of the Capitol. What can conservatives salvage from the debris?
2021-01-15 10:53:00 Books ‘Patch Work’ Review: A Stitch in Time A fashion curator’s journey into the sumptuous weave of history—and her own life.
2021-01-15 10:52:00 Real Estate How to Avoid the 5 Worst Bedroom Interior-Design Mistakes Unrestful décor is the last thing we need right now. We asked architects and designers how to avoid the most common errors.
2021-01-15 10:49:00 Books Children’s Books: ‘Modern Art Explorer’ Review Picture books bring the museum home to inspire the eye and mind of young artists.
2021-01-15 10:14:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Prosecutors Credited Boeing for Compliance, Organizational Reforms Boeing’s $2.5 billion settlement over the 737 MAX demonstrates the importance of ensuring that compliance and safety programs are effectively structured, lawyers say
2021-01-15 10:11:00 Economy Industrial Production in U.S. Rose a Solid 1.6% in December Production data provides a source of strength for the economy as consumer spending and employment gains slow
2021-01-15 10:08:00 World Even Under New Leadership, Germany Won’t Confront China Successor to Angela Merkel is unlikely to join a Biden-led alliance to confront the Asian giant
2021-01-15 10:00:00 World David Barclay, Secretive British Tycoon, Bought London’s Ritz Hotel Reclusive investor, who died at 86, worked closely with his twin brother until they squabbled
2021-01-15 10:00:00 Markets The Story Behind the Market’s Hottest Funds Thematic ETFs allow investors to bet on trends and concepts—but their narrow focus increases their risk
2021-01-15 09:41:00 Markets Bloomberg’s Big Challenger Can’t Afford to Slip Investors have high hopes for the new financial-data giant created by the imminent merger of London Stock Exchange Group and Refinitiv
2021-01-15 09:04:00 Tech How Twitter, Facebook Shrank President Trump’s Social Reach Because of recently placed blocks, the president has lost the ability to communicate easily with roughly 150 million followers and subscribers
2021-01-15 09:00:00 U.S. Companies Brace Themselves for New ESG Regulations Under Biden Businesses and trade groups are hoping to get clarity about—and influence—expected rules on environmental, social and governance issues
2021-01-15 09:00:00 U.S. Arizona Is America’s Covid-19 Hot Spot and on the Brink of Crisis Hospitals are close to full in state with most coronavirus infections and hospitalizations per capita in nation
2021-01-15 08:55:00 Life & Arts Red-Wine Pasta With Pancetta and Chestnuts Sick of the same old spaghetti? Try red-wine pasta with chestnuts and pancetta, or fettuccine with a luscious mushroom ragù. 5 quick, comforting recipes that put the new back in noodles.
2021-01-15 08:53:00 Economy Biden’s Two-Pronged Attack on Income Inequality The president-elect’s plan could rapidly cut unemployment—but at a hefty price
2021-01-15 08:48:00 Economy U.S. Retail Sales Fell 0.7% in December as Covid-19 Cases Rose Drop marks third straight month of decline in measure of spending at stores, vehicle dealerships, restaurants and online
2021-01-15 08:45:00 Life & Arts Mafaldine With Crushed Pink Peppercorns and Parmigiano Reggiano Sick of the same old spaghetti? Try red-wine pasta with chestnuts and pancetta, or fettuccine with a luscious mushroom ragù. 5 quick, comforting recipes that put the new back in noodles.
2021-01-15 08:43:00 Markets Stock Futures Slide on Joe Biden’s Tax Plans The S&P 500 is on track to end the week with losses as investors worry that new stimulus plans will lead to higher taxes
2021-01-15 08:43:00 Markets Wells Fargo Profit Rises to End Topsy-Turvy Year Bank’s profit edges up 4%, though revenue falls nearly 10% in fourth quarter
2021-01-15 08:39:00 Life & Arts Strozzapreti With Carrots Sick of the same old spaghetti? Try red-wine pasta with chestnuts and pancetta, or fettuccine with a luscious mushroom ragù. 5 quick, comforting recipes that put the new back in noodles.
2021-01-15 08:30:00 Markets Citigroup Beats Profit Expectations for Fourth Quarter Revenue fell 10%, but the bank drew down $1.5 billion of the reserves it had set aside for loan losses
2021-01-15 08:28:00 Life & Arts These Recipes Make Pasta Exciting Again Sick of the same old spaghetti? Try red-wine pasta with chestnuts and pancetta, or fettuccine with a luscious mushroom ragù. 5 quick, comforting recipes that put the new back in noodles.
2021-01-15 08:23:00 Politics Biden Names Kessler Chief Science Officer for Covid Response David A. Kessler, who led the FDA under two presidents, will help rush the production and distribution of vaccines and new Covid drugs
2021-01-15 08:17:00 Business Exxon Draws SEC Probe Over Permian Basin Asset Valuation Whistleblower complaint alleges that lower-level employees were pressured to use unrealistic assumptions on drilling
2021-01-15 07:57:00 Markets JPMorgan Profit Soars 42% After Bank Releases Reserves for Bad Loans Still, CEO Jamie Dimon says bank remains positioned for ‘significant near-term economic uncertainty’
2021-01-15 07:40:00 Life & Arts Acura TLX A-Spec: Athletic and Built for American Tastes The American-bred, entry-luxury midsize sedan from Honda’s premium division gets a whole-body transplant for 2021. And the music coming from the sound system? Heaven, says Dan Neil.
2021-01-15 07:33:00 Markets Insurers Face Big Payouts to U.K. Businesses Over Covid Disruptions U.K. Supreme Court rules insurers must pay out on business-interruption claims in a legal case that could have wide-ranging ramifications
2021-01-15 07:28:00 World Australia Considers New Covid-19 Quarantine Strategy: Outback Isolation Fearing the import of new coronavirus strains, one state wants to repurpose remote camps designed for resources workers
2021-01-15 07:20:00 World Kim Jong Un Offers a Rare Sneak Peek at North Korea’s Weapons Program Leader says Pyongyang is developing military drones, a nuclear-powered submarine and surveillance satellites
2021-01-15 07:15:00 World Russia to Follow U.S. in Leaving Open Skies Treaty Withdrawal will complicate any potential efforts by President-elect Joe Biden to re-enter the agreement
2021-01-15 07:10:00 World North Korea’s Missiles and Nuclear Weapons: Everything You Need to Know Kim Jong Un vows to continue advancing an arsenal that has the potential to hit anywhere in the U.S.
2021-01-15 07:01:00 World Paris to Revamp Traffic-Clogged Champs-Élysées as a City Garden As cities around the world rethink living and working spaces after Covid-19, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo pushes for more space for walkers and cyclists
2021-01-15 07:00:00 Politics Mask Makers Work With FEMA, Get Antitrust Protection 3M and Honeywell are among those meeting to coordinate production and distribution of N95 masks and other Covid-19 protective equipment
2021-01-15 06:16:00 Markets Ant Group Is Moving Quickly to Comply With Regulations, China’s Central Bank Says The fintech giant has set up a working group to address problems recently flagged by Chinese regulators
2021-01-15 06:00:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Value of Low-Rated Loans, Biotech Startup Acquisitions Jump, Posh Restaurant Delivery Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2021-01-15 06:00:00 CMO Today Startup Pushes Picture-in-Picture Ads for Streaming TV The format could grow in popularity as viewership of live programming continues to grow
2021-01-15 05:58:00 Fake Covid-19 Vaccines: What to Know
2021-01-15 05:30:00 Markets The Pet Store Still Has Room for Thoughtful Bulls The pet industry is attractive, but investors need to be choosy as the pandemic adoption boom tails off
2021-01-15 05:30:00 Politics A Year On, China Falls Short on Trade-Deal Targets Purchases of U.S. goods are behind schedule, although some see progress in opening markets to U.S. companies
2021-01-15 05:30:00 Politics Democratic Senate Will Test Viability of Expanding Courts, D.C. Statehood Remarks made by key Democratic senators lend oxygen to some progressive wish list items
2021-01-15 05:30:00 Markets When Some Investors Look at Stocks They See Dollars, Not Shares A new way of stock-market wagering is taking hold among younger investors who prefer to think about how much they can spend instead of how many shares they can afford.
2021-01-15 05:30:00 Derby’s Take: Lots of Life Left in Fed’s Bond Buying, Central Bank Officials Say
2021-01-15 05:25:00 Markets Covid-19 Vaccinations Give Shot in Arm to Israeli Stocks Israel’s benchmark stock index has outperformed both the S&P 500 and the Euro Stoxx Index this year
2021-01-15 03:47:00 Markets Americans Banned From Investing in Xiaomi as U.S. Expands Blacklist Chinese smartphone giant was a surprise inclusion on list of companies U.S. says support China’s military
2021-01-15 01:02:00 U.S. U.S. Executes Inmate Infected With Covid-19 Supreme Court rejects claims that coronavirus could lead to exceptional pain when receiving lethal doses of pentobarbital
2021-01-14 22:47:00 National Security Trump Orders Military Shift to Spur Israeli-Arab Cooperation Against Iran Defense policy move is latest step by administration to shape Middle East agenda for Biden
2021-01-14 20:35:00 U.S. Prosecutors Unveil More Criminal Charges Over Flint Water Crisis Michigan officials announce charges against a host of former state and local officials, following two made Wednesday against former governor
2021-01-14 19:23:00 Markets Fannie, Freddie Taxpayer Stake Won't Be Restructured Under Trump Decision effectively ends push to ensure that mortgage giants eventually return to private hands
2021-01-14 19:14:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Trump Order Clarifies Chinese Company Ban, But Questions Linger Compliance officers are struggling to figure out whether related companies—not just those on the blacklist—are also blocked, lawyers say
2021-01-14 19:10:00 Politics Charges Leveled at Men Accused of Assaulting Police With Flag, Fire Extinguisher in Capitol Riot Man carrying Confederate flag in Capitol was also charged
2021-01-14 19:08:00 Politics Biden to Propose $1.9 Trillion Covid-19 Relief Package President-elect will urge Congress to back $1,400 per-person direct payments and ask for funding for testing and vaccine distribution
2021-01-14 19:08:00 Pro Cyber News Apple’s App Store Removes Social Media Platform Wimkin Over Calls to Violence Wimkin founder says he had removed incendiary posts before Apple ejected the platform from the App Store
2021-01-14 18:34:00 Opinion Pelosi’s Top Priority: Consolidating Power Her first bills in the new Congress would dilute ballot integrity and make D.C. a state.
2021-01-14 18:32:00 Opinion Jack Dorsey Has Second Thoughts The politicization of technology jeopardizes the ‘open internet’ itself.
2021-01-14 18:30:00 Opinion The Good News on Cancer Mortality keeps falling, but the pandemic may slow progress.
2021-01-14 18:27:00 Opinion Pennsylvania’s Last 2020 Election Mess A mail-vote fiasco comes to an end, 70 days after the election.
2021-01-14 18:23:00 Opinion Liz Cheney Shows What Leadership Looks Like The sooner Republicans demystify Donald Trump, the better for them and for the country.
2021-01-14 18:23:00 Markets Jumia Shares Notch Third Straight Day of Gains Citron Research, which once had a short position on Jumia, now believes the e-commerce company’s stock could grow
2021-01-14 18:13:00 Opinion Those $2,000 Checks Won’t Boost the Economy Politicians love direct payments, but people spend more only when long-term income rises.
2021-01-14 18:12:00 Opinion Joe Biden Can Learn From the Gipper’s Example of Unity After a harsh campaign 40 years ago, Reagan reached out to opponents in his inaugural address.
2021-01-14 18:12:00 Opinion How to Make the Islamic World Less Radical Recontextualize the teachings of Islam to address extremism—and to inspire reform.
2021-01-14 18:11:00 Opinion Big Business’s Sharp Left Turn Corporations’ new political role carries serious political and legal consequences.
2021-01-14 18:10:00 Books ‘The Compleat Victory’ Review: A Hard Campaign, With Blunders The British general should have fallen back, but pride made retreat unpalatable. Instead he rolled the dice even as the Americans gathered strength.
2021-01-14 18:09:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: Merkel on Trump’s Twitter Ban ‘The freedom of opinion is a fundamental right.’
2021-01-14 18:06:00 Politics Departing Antitrust Chief Backs Changes to Strengthen Enforcement Makan Delrahim says policy makers may want to toughen rules for mergers, competition in the tech space
2021-01-14 17:30:00 Film Review ‘The White Tiger’ Review: Funny, Ferocious, Burning Bright A young Indian man climbs the social ladder in Ramin Bahrani’s epic adaptation of the award-winning novel by Aravind Adiga.
2021-01-14 17:29:00 Opinion Biden and the Obama Tax Warning New administration threatens industrialized world’s highest tax rate on business.
2021-01-14 17:27:00 Television Review ‘One Night in Miami’ Review: A Gathering of Greats Malcolm X, Cassius Clay, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown spar and spark at a critical moment in each of their lives in this compelling fantasy directed by Regina King.
2021-01-14 17:24:00 Film Review ‘My Little Sister’ Review: Her Brother’s Keeper In Switzerland’s affecting Oscar entry, a playwright strengthens the bonds with her dying twin.
2021-01-14 17:22:00 Opinion ‘Uncle Vanya’ and ‘King Lear’ Reviews: Russian and British Classics for Free An intimate 2018 adaptation that makes Chekhov’s quintessentially Russian play feel contemporary; a conventional production from 1973 of the Shakespearean tragedy starring a young James Earl Jones.
2021-01-14 17:20:00 Film Review ‘Locked Down’ Review: A Covid-Era Heist Silly shenanigans during the pandemic, with Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor as larcenous ex-lovers still living together.
2021-01-14 17:06:00 World Iran Seeks Leverage in Nuclear Standoff With U.S. Tehran wants U.S. to lift sanctions as price to recommit to landmark accord; some say moves aim to pressure Biden
2021-01-14 17:00:00 Television Review ‘WandaVision’ Review: Less Than a Modern Marvel Starring Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany, the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s foray into old-time TV gets the genre right, but not much else.
2021-01-14 16:54:00 World U.S. Moves to Block Telecom Tech from China and Others Deemed Foes It will be up to Biden administration to pursue the rules, which also name Russia, Iran and North Korea
2021-01-14 16:33:00 Politics Biden Names Acting Pentagon Chief to Serve Until Nominee’s Confirmation David Norquist, currently Defense Department’s No. 2, will lead Pentagon until Lloyd Austin’s confirmation
2021-01-14 16:32:00 Politics Justice Department Probe Faults Sessions in Pressing Policy of Separating Immigrant Families Inspector general says leadership didn’t coordinate with other departments, leading to children not being reunited with parents
2021-01-14 16:26:00 Politics Conservative Republican Tom Rice Explains Why He Voted to Impeach Trump ‘The more I looked at it, the madder I got,’ South Carolina congressman said in interview
2021-01-14 16:17:00 Business Airlines, FAA Tighten Security Ahead of Biden Inauguration American is extending an alcohol sales ban and several airlines won’t allow passengers to carry firearms in checked luggage
2021-01-14 16:10:00 World Israel Vaccine Data Suggests Decrease in Covid-19 Infection Rate After First Dose The early data, indicating a 33% decline, could offer lessons to other countries rolling out vaccination campaigns
2021-01-14 16:07:00 Pro Bankruptcy Christopher & Banks Files for Bankruptcy, Closing All Stores The women’s apparel retailer is looking to sell its e-commerce business out of bankruptcy
2021-01-14 15:49:00 Markets Poshmark’s Stock Price More Than Doubles in Market Debut Investor enthusiasm reflects the soaring demand for IPOs as well as interest in secondhand goods sold online
2021-01-14 15:47:00 U.S. U.S. Accuses MIT Professor of Hiding Extensive China Ties in Federal Grant Application Mechanical engineering professor Gang Chen allegedly supported China’s effort to recruit talent to the country
2021-01-14 15:30:00 World U.K. to Ban Travelers From South America Because of New Virus Strain The variant is believed to have emerged in the Brazilian Amazon; the ban will also apply to travelers from Portugal and elsewhere
2021-01-14 15:23:00 Economy Jobs Market Has Long Recovery Ahead, Says Fed’s Powell Fed chairman’s comments are indication that easy-money policies will remain in place for the foreseeable future
2021-01-14 15:15:00 Markets Banks Can’t Blacklist Entire Industries Under New OCC Rule Rule comes in response to complaints from oil-and-gas businesses
2021-01-14 15:13:00 Life & Arts A Mexico Vacation During the Pandemic? The Rewards vs. Risks Even with rising Covid cases and renewed lockdowns, the country maintains stubborn allure
2021-01-14 15:10:00 Life & Arts Urban Meyer Nears a Comeback—to Coach the Jacksonville Jaguars The coach won national championships at Ohio State and Florida and is now taking his first shot at the NFL
2021-01-14 14:48:00 Markets GameStop Stock Soars and Social-Media Traders Claim Victory Members of Reddit’s popular WallStreetBets forum have been touting GameStop for weeks
2021-01-14 14:46:00 Opinion What Has Trump Actually Incited? It’s a Lot The incitement case against him isn’t just the use of a few words he uttered before the assault by his followers on the Capitol but the conduct over an extended period leading up to his rally.
2021-01-14 14:45:00 Business Toyota to Pay $180 Million to Settle Complaint Over Delayed Emissions Defect Reports Car maker violated reporting requirements of the EPA’s Clean Air Act for about a decade, according to DOJ complaint
2021-01-14 14:45:00 Opinion Police Equipment and Its Proper, Lawful Use There is a reason we arm our police.
2021-01-14 14:44:00 Politics Biden to Tap Jaime Harrison, Former Senate Candidate, to Lead DNC Harrison gained attention for fundraising in his unsuccessful 2020 bid against Sen. Lindsey Graham
2021-01-14 14:44:00 Opinion Nancy Pelosi and Command in Nuclear War She has every right as speaker and No. 2 in succession after the vice president to be reassured precisely of the constitutional role of the U.S. military in a national crisis.
2021-01-14 14:39:00 Books Bestselling Books Week Ended January 9 With data from NPD BookScan
2021-01-14 14:35:00 Tech With New CEO Pat Gelsinger, Intel Welcomes Back Its ‘Chief Geek’ Chip giant’s next leader brings engineering background, Christian faith to company confronting array of challenges
2021-01-14 14:26:00 Life & Arts Take the Guilt Out of Takeout Startups around the country are looking to lighten the burden on landfills by offering takeout in reusable containers. Will consumers get on board?
2021-01-14 14:13:00 Logistics Report Trucker YRC Got 95% of All Covid-19 National Security Loan Funding The financially ailing freight carrier for military agencies was one of only 11 recipients of funds aimed at supporting defense contractors during the pandemic
2021-01-14 13:52:00 Tech Cisco Agrees to New Deal to Buy Acacia for $115 a Share Networking-equipment giant boosts purchase price by 64% in deal that values Acacia at about $4.5 billion
2021-01-14 13:28:00 Markets Carnival’s Wave Season Should Lift Its Shares Even as many investors have given up, Carnival’s latest bookings update shows consumer demand for the cruise industry hasn’t sunk
2021-01-14 13:21:00 Hedge Funds James Simons Steps Down as Chairman of Renaissance Technologies The investing pioneer is stepping back from his role as chairman at highly successful quant hedge fund
2021-01-14 13:10:00 Markets Oil Market Has Plenty of Wild Cards Remaining The suspense of OPEC and its partners’ strained meeting has been resolved, but there is still room for surprise from two countries outside that group
2021-01-14 13:00:00 Opinion What Legislative Powers Are Left for Impeachment to Defend? Trump committed the sort of offense the Founders had in mind, but this isn’t the Congress they wanted.
2021-01-14 12:59:00 Opinion Biden’s CIA Pick Could Set the Agency Right William Burns will rein in intelligence with an outsider’s touch.
2021-01-14 12:58:00 CFO Journal Diageo CFO Mikells to Leave; North America Finance Chief to Take Over Lavanya Chandrashekar is set to take over as the drinks company’s CFO on July 1
2021-01-14 12:49:00 Business Google Proceeds With Fitbit Deal, But Government Reviews Continue Acquisition closes after the search giant made concessions around data privacy in the European Union
2021-01-14 12:28:00 Markets China Holdup Proves Costly for Cisco Network giant boosts price for Acacia by 64% as slow Chinese approval dragged out deal’s close
2021-01-14 12:25:00 Politics Busy Senate to Juggle Trump Impeachment Trial, Biden Agenda Covid-19 aid, confirming nominees are also on agenda as new administration kicks off
2021-01-14 12:18:00 Life & Arts Chocolate Chip, Walnut and Leaf Lard Cookies We’re done with avoiding it. Indeed, we’re saving it, rendering it and using it to make all kinds of dishes more delicious.
2021-01-14 12:16:00 Tech Samsung Debuts New Galaxy Smartphones, Eyeing Pandemic-Weary Consumers Lineup extends many selling points of previous launches, but base model sells for $200 less than last year’s version
2021-01-14 12:03:00 Real Estate Interior Design That Merges Modern and Traditional In a Seattle home, a designer brokers a peace between a couple’s warring tastes without compromising style
2021-01-14 12:01:00 Life & Arts How Religion Shaped Modern Economics In the 18th century, a new Protestant belief that people have control over their destinies fostered the rise of free-market ideas.
2021-01-14 12:00:00 Life & Arts In Pared Back Season, U.S. Figure Skating Will Still Hand Out National Titles Men’s champion Nathan Chen aims to win his fifth crown, but ladies champion will likely change as Alysa Liu adjusts to a changing body
2021-01-14 11:31:00 Life & Arts Cauliflower Lahmacun With Sumac-Spiced Onions and Yogurt Minced and roasted, cauliflower becomes succulent and deeply savory. It makes a terrific veggie alternative to the minced beef or lamb that typically tops a Turkish lahmacun.
2021-01-14 11:16:00 Life & Arts This Vegetarian Recipe Has Seriously Meaty Appeal Minced and roasted, cauliflower becomes succulent and deeply savory. It makes a terrific veggie alternative to the minced beef or lamb that typically tops a Turkish lahmacun.
2021-01-14 11:01:00 Business Tech Companies Join Effort Focused on Covid-19 Vaccine Records Microsoft and Oracle are among firms behind the initiative to help consumers demonstrate their vaccination status
2021-01-14 11:00:00 CIO Journal IBM to Acquire Cloud Computing Consultant Taos Mountain Deal marks latest step in IBM’s mission to bring customers into cloud era, in which software and data are accessed online
2021-01-14 10:56:00 Politics Extremists in Capitol Riots Had Histories of Violent Rhetoric and Threats Far-right groups and white nationalists publicly discussed the Jan. 6 rally, activity that should have been enough to put law enforcement on high alert, current and former government officials say
2021-01-14 10:07:00 The Covid-19 Death Toll Is Even Worse Than It Looks World-wide deaths are running far beyond what would have been expected without the pandemic
2021-01-14 10:00:00 Economy WSJ Survey: U.S. Economic Growth Will Exceed 4% in 2021 Covid-19 vaccinations and additional government aid boost 2021 forecast by economists
2021-01-14 09:05:00 Markets GameStop, Delta, BlackRock: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today U.S. stock futures tick up ahead of Biden speech on stimulus plans
2021-01-14 09:00:00 Media & Marketing Axios Wants to Help Companies Write Like Its Reporters—for $10,000 a Year, or More AxiosHQ communications platform to launch with Delta Air Lines and AT&T among early customers
2021-01-14 08:58:00 Business Stripe Bans Trump, but Donations Still Come Through Visitors to the president’s campaign website are directed to WinRed, a Stripe customer, to make donations
2021-01-14 08:57:00 Life & Arts Kevin Durant. Kyrie Irving. James Harden. That’s It. That’s the Brooklyn Nets. After a monumental trade, a trio grows in the New York City outer borough
2021-01-14 08:50:00 Economy U.S. Unemployment Claims Rise as Pandemic Weighs on Economy Initial claims for benefits jumped to nearly one million last week as coronavirus surge triggers layoffs
2021-01-14 08:47:00 Markets Stock Futures Creep Up Ahead of Biden’s Stimulus Speech Equity markets have been largely muted this week despite the political turmoil engulfing Washington
2021-01-14 08:30:00 CMO Today WPP Names Rob Reilly Global Chief Creative Officer The former McCann executive, known for buzzy campaigns for State Street, American Express and Burger King, joins WPP as the company rethinks its creative strategy
2021-01-14 08:27:00 Tech Chips Are in Hot Demand—and That’s a Problem Surging appetite for 5G smartphones, rebounding car sales squeeze semiconductor makers
2021-01-14 08:13:00 Politics Republican Voters Stick by Trump as Some Lawmakers Seek Distance GOP lawmakers such as Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina oppose impeachment while criticizing president
2021-01-14 08:00:00 Tech CES 2021: From Toilets to Coffee Tables, the Best Smart-Home Gadgets Hide the Tech At this year’s virtual tech extravaganza, a new wave of home tech aims to blend in, not stand out
2021-01-14 07:59:00 Business Delta Looks Toward Recovery After Dark Pandemic Winter Airline posted 2020 loss of nearly $12.4 billion, making it the company’s worst year ever
2021-01-14 07:54:00 U.S. Gov. Cuomo’s Plan for Mobile Sports Betting in New York Faces Questions Lawmakers believe state should enact more expansive structure, rather than a competitive approach, that would allow for at least eight operators
2021-01-14 07:30:00 Pro PE Deals Zico Beverage Brand Founder Buys Company Back From Coca-Cola Mark Rampolla, co-founder of venture firm PowerPlant Ventures, is reuniting with a beverage brand he sold to Coca-Cola in 2013
2021-01-14 07:24:00 U.S. Economy SolarWinds Hack Leaves Market-Sensitive Labor Data Intact, Scalia Says Public can be confident in information from department’s statistical arm, labor secretary says
2021-01-14 07:20:00 Markets Oil Demand Recovery Set to Fall Short of Pre-Pandemic Levels This Year OPEC says rising infection rates and government restrictions continue to stifle demand
2021-01-14 07:04:00 Markets BlackRock’s Fourth-Quarter Profit Rises on ETF, Bond Fund Inflows Assets under management by the world’s largest money manager hit a new high of $8.68 trillion
2021-01-14 06:58:00 Markets TSMC Sailed Through 2020 in Ship Shape The world’s largest contract chip maker is benefiting from surging demand, struggling competitors and top-notch technology
2021-01-14 06:31:00 Markets Chinese Investors Pour Billions Into Stocks on U.S. Blacklist Buyers using the Stock Connect trading link have snapped up the equivalent of a net $15.8 billion in Hong Kong shares this year
2021-01-14 06:29:00 Markets Believe in Tesla? Then Why Aren’t GM, Ford and Toyota Crashing? To justify Tesla’s valuation, the share prices of other car companies should be falling at the same time, but they aren’t
2021-01-14 06:00:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: SPAC Mania Rewards, Trust in Business, Feast or Famine Ski Season Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2021-01-14 06:00:00 Real Estate New York City Renters Owe More Than $1 Billion in Unpaid Rent, Survey Finds State was earmarked for $1.3 billion in rental assistance in last month’s federal Covid-19 relief package
2021-01-14 05:30:00 Markets Bank Earnings: Expect a Messy Quarter and a Peek at 2021 Lenders last year faced some of their most daunting challenges since the financial crisis
2021-01-14 05:30:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Defense Act Expands Scope of Foreign Bank Records U.S. Authorities Can Obtain Annual defense-policy legislation gives U.S. investigators additional authority to subpoena records from foreign banks with U.S. correspondent accounts
2021-01-14 05:30:00 Pro VC MA IPOs Biotech Startup Acquisitions Jumped in 2020, Leaving VCs Optimistic for New Year Corporations seek to persuade startups to be acquired instead of going public
2021-01-14 05:30:00 Markets Investors Find Value in Low-Rated Loans Leveraged-loan funds are attracting cash after two years in Wall Street’s doghouse
2021-01-14 04:56:00 World Former South Korean President Park’s Legal Saga Ends as Court Upholds Jail Term Supreme Court upholds Park Geun-hye’s 20-year prison sentence and fines her $16.4 million for her role in a corruption scandal
2021-01-14 04:49:00 World Hong Kong National Security Police Make Arrests Linked to Speedboat Escape Arrests cast a wider net in a case that has already rattled activists in the city and drawn international condemnation
2021-01-14 04:26:00 World Indonesia Plane Crash: What Happened to the Sriwijaya Air Jet? Boeing 737-500 plunged into Java Sea with 62 on board, setting off an investigation into the cause
2021-01-14 03:45:00 World China Denies Entry to Two Members of WHO Covid-19 Mission After Failed Screenings Members are held up in Singapore after testing positive for Covid-19 antibodies
2021-01-14 03:36:00 World Uganda Shuts Down Internet as Polls Open for Presidential Election Some 18 million voters will determine the election that has sparked the worst political violence in decades
2021-01-14 03:16:00 World Indonesia Plane Crash Probe’s Focus Is on Lack of Pilot Response to Controllers Multiple air-traffic control transmissions went unanswered by pilots of the Sriwijaya jet that plunged into the Java Sea
2021-01-14 02:55:00 Economy China Exports Boom to Record Year, While Covid-19 Ravages Global Economy Strong export momentum and the industrial recovery that underpinned it form a pillar of country’s rebound
2021-01-13 22:30:00 U.S. Proud Boys Supporter Eduard Florea Denied Bail in Weapons Case New York City man possessed more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition and made comments about senator-elect, complaint says
2021-01-13 22:18:00 Tech Twitter CEO Defends Trump Ban but Voices Concern Over Precedent Jack Dorsey says extraordinary and untenable circumstance forced the company to focus its actions on public safety
2021-01-13 20:42:00 Pro Bankruptcy Fracking Pioneer Chesapeake Energy Cleared to Exit Bankruptcy The Oklahoma City-based oil-and-gas producer is authorized for a restructuring that cuts about $7 billion in debt and includes a $600 million equity offering
2021-01-13 20:21:00 Pro Bankruptcy DOJ Settles First Civil PPP Fraud Case Against Bankrupt Online Retailer E-commerce company SlideBelts returned $350,000 federal loan and agreed to pay $100,000 to resolve fraud allegations
2021-01-13 20:04:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Whistleblower Lawyer Sues the SEC Over Bounty Program Rule Changes Jordan Thomas, a former SEC assistant director, says the agency didn’t have the authority to change the rules related to its whistleblower program
2021-01-13 19:44:00 Politics Readers’ Election-Fraud Questions—Answered False claims of irregularities in the 2020 presidential election still circulate after President Trump and allies floated untrue allegations
2021-01-13 19:28:00 CFO Journal Finance Chiefs Prepare for Potential Rule Changes, Return to the Office Chief financial officers, rule makers and advisers discussed a range of topics at WSJ’s CFO Network Summit
2021-01-13 19:05:00 Business Car Safety Regulators Urge Tesla to Recall Around 158,000 Vehicles NHTSA actions would affects Model S and Model X vehicles; agency has concerns about touchscreen
2021-01-13 18:46:00 Opinion The Seven-Day Impeachment The best outcome now is to make the House vote the end with no Senate trial.
2021-01-13 18:43:00 Opinion Thank You, Pat Cipollone The White House counsel has the hardest job in America.
2021-01-13 18:42:00 Media & Marketing Connecticut Investigating Amazon's E-Book Business State attorney general looking into whether tech giant’s dealings with certain publishers are anticompetitive
2021-01-13 18:40:00 Opinion An Antitrust History Lesson How trust busters botched the Staples-Office Depot merger.
2021-01-13 18:34:00 Opinion Banks Make a Climate Offering The lobby for Big Finance delivers tribute to Team Biden.
2021-01-13 18:31:00 Pro PE Fund News Private-Equity Firm New Mountain Capital Raises Over $10 Billion for Deals The firm has collected $9.6 billion for its latest flagship and $640 million for a new vehicle focused on noncontrolling investments
2021-01-13 18:28:00 Politics Huntsville Chosen as Home to U.S. Space Command Alabama’s ‘Rocket City’ selected from six finalists; Air Force to make final decision after environmental-impact studies
2021-01-13 18:12:00 Opinion Is Nancy Pelosi a Mad Genius? The House speaker knows one political reality: Increase her vote and diminish the opposition’s.
2021-01-13 18:11:00 Opinion Trump Has One Thing Left to Do He’s wrong to skip the inauguration, but he can still discourage any further violence.
2021-01-13 18:11:00 Life & Arts The Brooklyn Nets Bet the Franchise and Trade for James Harden A blockbuster NBA deal unites Harden with Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving on a Nets team that could win a title—if they can learn to coexist
2021-01-13 18:10:00 Opinion The Promise and Peril of Facial Recognition Agencies are using the technology to identify the Capitol rioters.
2021-01-13 18:09:00 Opinion Google’s Fake Union Insults the Labor Movement Alphabet has no legal obligation to recognize or negotiate with the well-funded pressure group.
2021-01-13 18:09:00 Books ‘Drug Use for Grown-Ups’ Review: A Dose of Dissent For people who can control their impulses and regulate their emotions—so it is argued—the use of drugs, including heroin, can have good effects.
2021-01-13 18:08:00 Opinion Humor Begins to Clear My Family’s Covid Brain Fog It took a little cross-multiplication, but we’re getting better.
2021-01-13 18:02:00 Politics Criminal Charges Proliferate Against Members of Pro-Trump Capitol Mob Some rioters’ lawyers approach prosecutors in bid to avoid charges as FBI warns other agencies that partisan grievances are expected to fuel further violence
2021-01-13 18:01:00 Tech Facebook Turned on Trump After Warnings That ‘Business as Usual Isn’t Working’ Following surge in reports of violent content ahead of Capitol attack, executives took their most aggressive steps yet to rein in the president and his supporters
2021-01-13 17:36:00 Business Covid-19 Vaccine Distribution Changes Draw Concern at Local Level U.S. health officials move to expand eligibility and release more doses to step up pace of inoculation
2021-01-13 17:16:00 Politics Trump Impeachment at the Capitol: Raw Nerves, Sharp Words, Troops on Guard Capitol becomes a military zone as Congress assigns blame for last week’s riot
2021-01-13 17:10:00 Art Review Upping the Waiting Game Moynihan Train Hall, the expansion of Penn Station to the Beaux-Arts James A. Farley building, imbues boarding Amtrak and commuter lines with some grandeur.
2021-01-13 17:07:00 Opera Review Arias on Identity, Isolation and Fear This year’s Prototype Festival features six boundary-pushing operas, most of which can be enjoyed at home.
2021-01-13 16:51:00 Business GameStop Shares Surge After Traders Shift Bets, Board Gets Makeover Retailer’s shares were up more than 57% on Wednesday
2021-01-13 16:48:00 Logistics Report Port Delays Leave Cargo Ships Stranded off U.S. Pacific Gateways A flood of container imports and a depleted dockside workforce have left a growing fleet offshore near America’s big trade gateways
2021-01-13 16:45:00 Life & Arts ‘Vandalize’: A Term for Barbarism, From the Sacking of Rome to the Storming of the Capitol The Latin name for a marauding ancient Germanic tribe made its way into the new article of impeachment against Donald Trump
2021-01-13 16:38:00 Markets Affirm Shares Skyrocket in Trading Debut Point-of-sale lender’s stock briefly exceeded $100 in early trading and closed at almost double its initial offering price
2021-01-13 16:25:00 Tech Intel Ousts CEO Bob Swan VMware chief Pat Gelsinger named as successor after hedge fund Third Point called for sweeping change at the semiconductor giant
2021-01-13 16:23:00 Finance Jane Fraser Puts Mark on Citigroup With Overhaul of Wealth Businesses A new unit will combine its high-end private bank for the ultrarich with its wealth-management offerings for the less affluent
2021-01-13 16:20:00 Markets Supreme Court Case Tests FTC’s Powers to Recoup Ill-Gotten Gains Justices voice mixed views suggesting history, though maybe not statute, is on FTC’s side in case involving race-car driver Scott Tucker
2021-01-13 16:19:00 Markets Intel’s New Chief Has No Quick Fix Chip maker’s manufacturing slip will take years to repair in a fast-moving market
2021-01-13 16:10:00 U.S. Extra Covid-19 Shots Pose Quandary for Vaccination Sites Hospitals and pharmacies sometimes struggle to avoid letting doses go to waste, and local regulations can tie their hands
2021-01-13 16:08:00 Tech Apple to Open Developer Academy, Provide Funding for Minority Entrepreneurs Moves are part of tech giant’s $100 million pledge to fight against racism after the killing of George Floyd
2021-01-13 16:07:00 World U.S. Bans Cotton, Tomato Imports From China’s Xinjiang Region Move broadens administration effort to address allegations of forced labor
2021-01-13 15:54:00 Life & Arts How You Should Be Handling Fat In Your Kitchen We’re done with avoiding it. Indeed, we’re saving it, rendering it and using it to make all kinds of dishes more delicious.
2021-01-13 15:53:00 Markets Kodak Director Makes Retroactive Cut to Huge Charity Stock Gift George Karfunkel’s revised donation appears to be worth $77.5 million, down from $116.3 million
2021-01-13 15:27:00 Economy U.S. Economy Saw Modest Growth in Late 2020, Fed’s Beige Book Shows Central bank’s business contacts downgrade characterization of economic activity following surge in Covid-19 cases
2021-01-13 15:17:00 Politics Arizona GOP to Consider Censuring Cindy McCain, Governor, Former Senator The state party has been racked by infighting since Election Day, when voters there narrowly chose Joe Biden over President Trump
2021-01-13 15:17:00 Tech 5 Best Ice Makers for Cutting-Edge Cubes at Home From clever trays to full-on LG fridges, we found the best new machines for every type of frozen-water lover
2021-01-13 15:15:00 Business FTC Reaches Settlement With Flo Health Over Fertility-Tracking App Flo Health accused of improperly sharing data with Facebook, including whether users were ovulating
2021-01-13 15:09:00 Screen Time What to Watch: 10 TV Series and Movies to Stream This Week Netflix announces a star-studded movie slate for the whole year; Marvel’s ‘WandaVision’ channels ‘Dick Van Dyke;’ and a popular British series that was a breakout during U.K. lockdowns comes to PBS
2021-01-13 15:04:00 Markets Shrinking Grain Supplies Send Prices Soaring Weaker-than-expected harvest of U.S. row crops and strong demand for U.S. exports have driven futures to multiyear highs
2021-01-13 14:37:00 World WHO Mission to Look for Answers to Covid-19’s Origin in Wuhan In the six months since the World Health Organization and China drew up a plan to figure out how the coronavirus spread to humans, China has shared little on its progress
2021-01-13 14:32:00 U.S. The New Covid-19 Testing Rules for Travel to the U.S.—What They Mean for You The CDC will require preflight testing as Covid-19 cases continue to soar and new, more infectious strains of the virus emerge
2021-01-13 14:32:00 Opinion When Media Censorship Only Runs One Way You’ve chosen to interpret recent actions by social-media and technology companies as a “progressive purge.” Another view is that these private companies are doing exactly what they believe is in the best interest of their corporations and their shareholders.
2021-01-13 14:31:00 Opinion On the Increasing Irrelevance of U.S. Coins No one carries coins around anymore because they have become essentially worthless.
2021-01-13 14:31:00 Opinion Open Science Is Essential for Trust in Skeptical Age How odd that anyone would oppose transparency in science while at the same time claiming to be scientific. Of course data and studies that support public policy should be public.
2021-01-13 14:26:00 Markets What is Margin Investing?
2021-01-13 14:09:00 Television Netflix’s ‘Bridgerton’ Heats Up Romance A show based on popular bodice-rippers gives an industry often dismissed as tawdry a much-needed embrace
2021-01-13 14:06:00 World Iran’s Nuclear Program: How Close Is Tehran to Developing Nuclear Weapons? Iranian breaches of the 2015 nuclear deal raise fears that the country is paving the way to start work on nuclear weapons, raising pressure on President-elect Joe Biden
2021-01-13 14:05:00 World Italy Begins Biggest Mafia Trial in Decades Prosecutors hope case against hundreds of people linked to ‘Ndrangheta will expose inner workings of dangerous crime syndicate
2021-01-13 14:03:00 World Israel Strikes Iran-Linked Targets in Syria Dozens reported to be killed in one of Israel’s biggest attacks on Iran-backed militias
2021-01-13 14:00:00 Economy U.S. Budget Gap Rose 61% in First Quarter of Fiscal 2021 The deficit totaled $3.3 trillion in calendar year 2020, roughly 15.8% of GDP, the Treasury Department said
2021-01-13 13:55:00 Life & Arts Should You Wear Mules Outside the House? Some say backless shoes are slovenly. Others insist they’re stylish. A menswear editor and sports columnist debate the merits of new, open-heel shoes from Nike, Gucci, Reebok and more.
2021-01-13 13:54:00 Middle East Iran Is Assembling Gear Able to Produce Key Nuclear-Weapons Material Tehran has taken a new step toward possible atomic-weapons production
2021-01-13 13:51:00 Markets Americans Won’t Be Banned From Investing in Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu Nine other Chinese companies will be added to Pentagon’s Chinese military companies list
2021-01-13 13:13:00 U.S. Why Was Parler Shut Down? Here’s Why the Social Network Is Offline Tech platforms expressed concern that some users celebrated the storming of the Capitol and discussed future violent actions
2021-01-13 13:10:00 Life & Arts Bill Belichick’s Day Off A coaching legend makes a choice, leading to an uncharacteristically quiet week
2021-01-13 13:05:00 Opinion Pence Rejects a Promotion The ‘indispensable leader’ in American government.
2021-01-13 12:52:00 World Countries Press On With Chinese Covid-19 Vaccine Despite Efficacy Questions Indonesia, the Philippines and Turkey plan to use Sinovac inoculation despite disappointing trial in Brazil
2021-01-13 12:42:00 Tech Smart Face Masks? Fever-Sensing Doorbells? CES 2021 Tech Promises Covid Protection. It was bound to happen. Connected masks, air purifiers, germ-killing UV gadgets and more have taken over at this year’s virtual tech megashow.
2021-01-13 12:36:00 U.S. New York City Moves to Cut Ties to Trump Organization Mayor says city will cancel contracts with president’s company to run ice rinks, carousel and golf course
2021-01-13 12:18:00 Opinion Xavier Becerra’s Nonprofit Problem They don’t spend donors’ money on his priorities. As Biden’s health secretary, he could try to coerce them.
2021-01-13 12:17:00 Opinion When Mob Inciters Become Lions of the Left An Aaron Sorkin film celebrates the Chicago Seven for plotting an attack on a party convention.
2021-01-13 12:07:00 Markets Poshmark Set to Join IPO Boom Marketplace for secondhand goods targets $2.7 billion valuation in public debut
2021-01-13 12:04:00 Tech WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram and iMessage: Choosing a Private Encrypted Chat App After a user-policy change and a social-media crackdown, independent messaging apps Signal and Telegram are experiencing a surge in downloads
2021-01-13 11:49:00 Markets Inflation Expectations in Europe Rise to Highest in Over a Year Hopes around the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines and accommodative central banks are boosting price forecasts
2021-01-13 11:42:00 Markets Prices, and Confusion, Set to Rise as Pandemic Fades Price gains remain muted, but only because services demand is still depressed by the Covid-19 crisis
2021-01-13 11:35:00 Markets A Mystery Shopper in Trans-Atlantic Grocery Talks Beyond the impulse to get a cheap deal, it is unclear why the Canadian owner of Circle K gas stations might want to buy French supermarket Carrefour
2021-01-13 10:52:00 Business Corner Store Owner Couche-Tard in Merger Talks With Europe’s Carrefour Canadian company’s $19.66 billion offer would create the world’s third-largest grocery retailer
2021-01-13 09:31:00 Markets KB Home, GM, Ally Financial: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today U.S. stock futures slipped ahead of a House vote on impeaching President Trump for a second time
2021-01-13 09:07:00 Politics Democrats Plan Policy Path on Next Round of Stimulus Checks, Other Aid Biden is set to unveil his plans Thursday, but he faces slim Democratic majorities and procedural constraints in Congress
2021-01-13 08:57:00 Life & Arts What You Need to Know for Traveling in 2021 As the pandemic continues, many people are still planning major trips for later this year—here are the factors to consider before booking
2021-01-13 08:52:00 Economy U.S. Consumer Prices Rose 0.4% in December
2021-01-13 08:47:00 Markets U.S. Stock Futures Tick Down Ahead of Vote Yield on 10-year Treasury note edged lower after seven consecutive days of gains
2021-01-13 08:45:00 Politics Impeachment Debate Tests McCarthy’s Hold on House GOP McCarthy’s alliance with President Trump, long an asset within the party, could now be a hindrance to his goal of eventually becoming House Speaker
2021-01-13 08:42:00 Markets LSE’s $15 Billion Refinitiv Deal Is Cleared by Key European Regulator Decision follows probe into risks that deal would give LSE outsize influence over trading, clearing and data services
2021-01-13 08:16:00 Politics Trump to Face Impeachment Vote Over Capitol Riot At least several Republicans are expected to join all Democrats in approving an article that says president made statements that encouraged and foreseeably resulted in lawless action
2021-01-13 08:13:00 World Bugs Are Safe for Humans to Eat, Says EU Overcoming the ‘yuck factor’ could determine whether Europeans embrace edible insects
2021-01-13 08:09:00 U.S. Prosecutors Say Wealth, Fame Motivated Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes’s Alleged Crimes Two sides spar over what evidence jurors can see during criminal fraud trial in July
2021-01-13 08:04:00 Politics What Will Biden’s Covid-19 Stimulus Plan Look Like? Thursday, the president-elect will unveil a pandemic relief plan worth ‘trillions of dollars’; more checks for households, more money for states
2021-01-13 08:00:00 Markets Qualcomm Bolsters 5G Ambitions With Planned $1.4 Billion Acquisition Purchase of chip startup Nuvia, founded by Apple engineers, comes amid chip deal-making frenzy
2021-01-13 08:00:00 Health Dollar General Will Pay Workers to Get a Covid-19 Vaccine Retailer is one of the first to dangle extra pay to staff to encourage them to get coronavirus shots once available
2021-01-13 07:46:00 U.S. Biden Picks Samantha Power to Lead USAID President-elect to elevate USAID administrator post to membership in White House’s National Security Council
2021-01-13 07:30:00 Markets Etsy’s Cup May Have Runneth Over Online marketplace has surged in the Covid-19 pandemic, but offline rivals are likely to reopen this year
2021-01-13 07:17:00 Politics After Capitol Riot, GOP Faces Reckoning with Corporate America The Republican Party has already seen its share of corporate PAC donations shrink compared with eight years ago
2021-01-13 07:00:00 Business Universal Music Group Licenses Catalog to Equinox At-Home Fitness App Variis Music has become critical to online fitness services amid Covid-19 pandemic; instructors have become like DJs
2021-01-13 07:00:00 Markets Opendoor’s Window Appears to Be Closing Pandemic erodes online real-estate platform’s first-mover advantage
2021-01-13 06:35:00 Business Target Boosts Holiday Sales During Covid-19 Pandemic Online sales more than doubled in November and December while store-based sales ticked higher
2021-01-13 06:02:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Real-Estate Self Buys, Record PC Growth Rate, Fake Office Commutes Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2021-01-13 05:51:00 Markets Bitcoin Will Break Wall Street’s Heart Mainstream institutional investors are coming to the party late, and conservative mandates mean outsize risk relative to potential returns
2021-01-13 05:30:00 U.S. Chinese Covid-19 Tests Were Pushed by Federal Agencies Despite Security Warnings U.S. intelligence officials have said publicly that BGI products pose privacy risks
2021-01-13 05:30:00 Pro Bankruptcy Distress Delayed Vaccine Rollout Spells Risk For Debt Investors Risky companies raised nearly $700 billion in debt financing from investors last year, with many betting on the coronavirus vaccine rollout to drive a recovery
2021-01-13 05:30:00 Markets SPAC Mania Gives Early Investors Steady Returns With Little Risk Hedge funds score gains when blank-check companies rise after announcing deals to take startups public
2021-01-13 05:30:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Crypto Company BitGo Hires Coinbase’s Former Compliance Chief BitGo is seeking approval from New York regulators to act as a cryptocurrency custodian
2021-01-13 05:30:00 Politics Forgiving Student Debt by Executive Action Is Illegal, Trump Lawyers Say Congressional Democrats have urged Biden to forgive most or all of Americans’ student debt unilaterally
2021-01-13 05:30:00 Business More Trust in Business Than in Government and Media, Survey Finds In latest annual trust survey, U.S. respondents back business at a higher percentage than other institutions
2021-01-13 05:26:00 Markets Investors Bet U.K. Stocks Can Banish Brexit Blues Main British stock index has climbed nearly 8% in dollar terms since the start of December, outperforming the S&P 500 and other major benchmarks
2021-01-13 04:43:00 Markets PC Giant Lenovo Plans China Listing, Sending Stock Soaring Shares in the world’s largest PC maker hit their highest level since 2015
2021-01-13 01:59:00 Business Boeing to Pay $25 Million in Drone Settlement Civil settlement resolves allegations used parts were substituted for new ones
2021-01-13 01:15:00 Tech YouTube Suspends President Trump’s Account Video-sharing service says it was locking Trump’s channel for at least seven days
2021-01-12 22:59:00 Tech SolarWinds Hackers’ Attack on Email Security Company Raises New Red Flags Customers of Mimecast were targeted in cyberattack, showing the multiple layers of potential victims at risk in massive hack
2021-01-12 21:24:00 U.S. Supreme Court Restores Mandate That Women Pick Up Abortion Drugs in Person Lower court had suspended requirement due to coronavirus hazards
2021-01-12 21:11:00 Opinion The FBI’s Violence Warning Officials need to be prepared for the worst through Jan. 20.
2021-01-12 20:05:00 Pro Bankruptcy J&J Opposes Former Talc Supplier’s Bankruptcy Plan to Resolve Cancer Claims Johnson & Johnson says Imerys Talc America let people with talc claims dictate their damages
2021-01-12 19:13:00 CIO Journal AI Startup Sees Opportunity Forecasting Pandemic-Era Consumer Demand New York-based Centricity, which uses AI algorithms to analyze consumer behavior, is aiming to raise $10 million in venture-capital money
2021-01-12 19:05:00 World Chinese Covid-19 Vaccine Far Less Effective Than Initially Touted in Brazil Results of Sinovac’s shot were almost 30 percentage points lower than previously announced, as concerns grow over study’s transparency
2021-01-12 18:45:00 Books ‘Underground Asia’ Review: A Century of Revolution Most Americans know little about modern Asian history. That’s too bad—yesterday’s upheavals are likely to be tomorrow’s, too.
2021-01-12 18:38:00 Opinion An Anti-Bureaucracy Vaccine, Please Delivering shots by age will help the most vulnerable faster.
2021-01-12 18:38:00 Opinion A Second Roaring ’20s? Students discuss whether the pandemic will give way to cultural and economic renewal.
2021-01-12 18:36:00 Opinion Cuba’s Support for Terror Obama’s engagement failed to change Havana’s behavior.
2021-01-12 18:34:00 Opinion The Lincoln Blacklist A political group wants to make it easier to cancel Trump alumni.
2021-01-12 18:33:00 Opinion A Hong Kong Dissident’s Daring Escape Danes face threats from Beijing for planning a fake climate crisis to help Ted Hui get to the West.
2021-01-12 18:32:00 Opinion Politics Has No Place for Violence The man who shot me in 2017 and the Capitol Hill rioters all were radicalized by extreme rhetoric.
2021-01-12 18:31:00 Opinion This Time, Trump’s Impeachment Is Warranted Republicans should worry more about what’s right for the country than their own electoral futures.
2021-01-12 18:27:00 Opinion Remove Trump? Let’s Ask Honest Abe The statesman’s advice on public opinion counsels against the idea.
2021-01-12 18:27:00 Politics Trump Defends Conduct, Attacks Democrats at First Post-Riot Event At border wall in Texas, president takes aim at House move to impeach him over his supporters’ violence at Capitol
2021-01-12 18:26:00 Opinion Maximize the Vaccine As herd immunity comes nearer, inoculate where it will do the most good.
2021-01-12 18:20:00 U.S. Covid-19 Rapid-Test Sites Planned for New York Office Buildings Cuomo says expanded testing would help workers to return safely
2021-01-12 18:00:00 Opinion What Evil Sounds Like The complete recordings—all 775 hours—of the historic Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders has been released online.
2021-01-12 17:38:00 U.S. New York State Senator Accused of Domestic Abuse Democrat Luis Sepúlveda is stripped of committee assignments; his lawyer says arrest arose from false accusation amid divorce proceeding
2021-01-12 17:34:00 Television Review ‘Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer’: One Murderer, Many Methods Netflix’s grim four-part docuseries highlights the forensic work of detectives Frank Salerno and Gil Carrillo, who ultimately identified the erratic killer.
2021-01-12 17:19:00 Television Review ‘Call Your Mother’ Review: In Need of a Parental Advisory Label Kyra Sedgwick stars as an over-intrusive, overly forward mom in ABC’s new sitcom.
2021-01-12 17:12:00 Opinion Trump: Resign or Be Impeached? Not Likely In a week this will end. Let it be.
2021-01-12 17:11:00 Markets Zoom Fills Its War Chest as Pandemic’s End Nears Stock offering could expand Zoom’s options as it slides into post-pandemic life
2021-01-12 17:06:00 Opinion U.S. Must Insist on Justice for Danny Pearl It is unconscionable that Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh may evade justice.
2021-01-12 17:05:00 Opinion Redesigned Buildings Offer Hope for Radical Progress Perhaps there is something wrong with the way architects and advocates for radically improved buildings are making the case.
2021-01-12 16:55:00 Experience Report Health Officials Scramble to Provide Booking Systems for Covid-19 Vaccines Some states are using ticketing platforms like Eventbrite to handle appointments
2021-01-12 16:52:00 Politics Janet Yellen Confirmation Hearing for Treasury Secretary Set for Jan. 19 Senate Finance Panel to consider the former Fed chairwoman’s nomination to lead U.S. Treasury
2021-01-12 16:47:00 U.S. Coronavirus Vaccine Doses That Were Held Back Now Being Released Trump administration shifts strategy in effort to speed up pace of administering shots
2021-01-12 16:45:00 U.S. Supreme Court Considers Expanding Government Liability Over Speech Restrictions—Even After They Were Lifted The justices will decide whether student who sued Georgia state college can collect attorneys’ fees after school dropped policies
2021-01-12 16:43:00 Business Visa Abandons Planned Acquisition of Plaid After DOJ Challenge Justice Department sued in November to challenge $5.3 billion deal
2021-01-12 16:30:00 Markets Biden Is Expected to Name Gary Gensler for SEC Chairman Former Goldman Sachs executive regulated derivatives under President Obama
2021-01-12 16:29:00 CFO Journal CFOs at U.S. Midmarket Companies Predict Revenues Will Rebound The improved outlook comes after a year during which midsize firms sought to preserve cash amid the pandemic
2021-01-12 16:27:00 U.S. Philadelphia Can’t Open Drug Safe-Injection Site, Federal Appeals Court Rules Nonprofit can seek review from full court after three-judge decision
2021-01-12 16:16:00 Markets U.S. Government-Bond Yields Pare Gains After Strong Auction Yield on 10-year Treasury note still on course to rise for seventh consecutive trading session
2021-01-12 16:16:00 U.S. Hospitals to Report Covid-19 Vaccination Data Health and Human Services to track how many patients and health workers get the shots weekly
2021-01-12 16:14:00 World Irish Inquiry Finds 9,000 Infants Died in Homes for Unwed Mothers Over 70 years, 15% of children in mother-and-baby homes died
2021-01-12 16:07:00 Business Capitol Riot: See the Full List of Companies Halting PAC Donations From Amazon to Verizon, many businesses suspend donations to Republicans who objected to election certification
2021-01-12 15:56:00 Politics EPA Raises Barriers to Climate-Change Rules The rule sets new criteria for what is considered a significant contributor of greenhouse-gas emissions
2021-01-12 15:45:00 Politics Republicans Weigh Trump Censure, Impeachment President defends remarks he made at rally before Capitol riot; lawmakers will vote Tuesday evening on 25th Amendment resolution
2021-01-12 15:41:00 World Pompeo Accuses Iran of Allowing al Qaeda to Set Up Headquarters Secretary of State warns against normalizing relations with Tehran in the Trump administration’s latest move to defend its foreign policy
2021-01-12 15:38:00 Life & Arts $2 Million for T-Shirts? How Supreme and Nike Cracked the Auction Market Elite auction houses like Sotheby’s are betting on rare sneakers and sought-after streetwear. Here, what’s earned the highest hammer prices and how to spot items that could someday be worth a bundle.
2021-01-12 15:37:00 Politics FBI Has Opened 160 Cases Tied to Pro-Trump Capitol Riot Prosecutors are looking at seditious conspiracy cases
2021-01-12 15:07:00 Business New GM Electric-Truck Business Targets Delivery Market Division dubbed BrightDrop will sell electric trucks and services to package-delivery operators; FedEx is first customer
2021-01-12 14:57:00 Life & Arts How to Win the War Against Clutter An expert explains how to conquer the emotional minefields that come with tidying up: ‘It’s all clutter and it’s all connected.’
2021-01-12 14:19:00 World As Covid-19 Pressure Mounts, U.K. Hospitals Find Pandemic Paradox New coronavirus variant, better treatments and other changes keep more people in British hospitals
2021-01-12 13:52:00 Logistics Report Maersk Sees Little Change in Tight Shipping Supply Near Term With little excess shipping capacity amid high demand, there is scant relief on the horizon in congested supply chains, an executive says
2021-01-12 13:35:00 Opinion Mike Pence Comes Through for America We were right to be confident in him as we doubted Trump.
2021-01-12 13:34:00 Opinion Vaccination by Age Is the Way to Go The fight over who gets the shot first is slowing the rollout. Date of birth is the best proxy for level of risk.
2021-01-12 13:12:00 Tech Parler Faces Complex, Costly Route to Getting Back Online Companies cut off from popular digital-service providers can struggle to find workarounds
2021-01-12 13:09:00 Markets Albertsons Cart is Full as Covid Windfall Gets Extended The grocery chain owner is on a roll. Its next challenge will be to figure out which initiatives to focus on.
2021-01-12 12:55:00 Business U.S. Expected to Require Covid-19 Tests for All International Visitors Directive would expand CDC order requiring proof of negative coronavirus tests for all airline passengers from U.K.
2021-01-12 12:52:00 Tech SolarWinds Discloses Earlier Evidence of Hack New findings in cyberattack investigation fill out timeline of Russia-linked campaign
2021-01-12 12:22:00 Business Albertsons’ Sales Growth Outpaces Rivals Amid Covid-19 Pandemic CEO says the supermarket operator continues to see fewer trips per household but a larger amount purchased
2021-01-12 12:16:00 Fed's Mester Says Fed Policy Set at an Appropriate Level for Year Ahead Cleveland Fed leader says current stance would accommodate a slowdown in the first part of the year, then a rebound
2021-01-12 12:05:00 U.S. Biden Trade Policy to Center on Workers, USTR Nominee Says Katherine Tai expects new administration to confront China and enforce U.S.-Mexico-Canada pact
2021-01-12 12:02:00 Life & Arts Despite Covid-19 Outbreak Risks, Summer Camps Are Filling Up Quickly Many summer camps plan to open this year, and directors say rigorous safety measures can protect children from Covid-19 while they’re having fun. Here’s what parents should know before signing up.
2021-01-12 11:38:00 Business FuboTV Bets on Sports Gambling as Key to Drawing In More Customers Sports-rich live-TV provider agrees to buy sportsbook Vigtory in effort to generate more revenue and keep viewers engaged
2021-01-12 11:07:00 World India’s Supreme Court Puts Hold on Farming Laws to Defuse Protests Top court orders an expert committee to make recommendations on how to end impasse between Modi’s government and farmers
2021-01-12 11:01:00 Business Boeing Falls Further Behind Airbus in Plane Deliveries U.S. maker delivered almost 90% fewer passenger jets to airline customers last year from a peak in 2018
2021-01-12 10:52:00 Business Zoom Aims to Raise $1.5 Billion Through Stock Offering Offering would be videoconferencing company’s largest since its trading debut in 2019
2021-01-12 10:47:00 World Aging Strongman Faces Youthful Musician Bobi Wine in Battle for Uganda’s Future President Yoweri Museveni’s government blocks Facebook, prosecutes election monitors and jails lawyers in a bid to extend his 35-year rule
2021-01-12 10:24:00 Business Synchrony Names Brian Doubles as CEO Mr. Doubles to remain president; current chief Margaret Keane to become executive chairman
2021-01-12 09:22:00 Economy Tax Season Is Coming, and It Could Be Messy Stimulus payments, unemployment benefits and state rules for remote work add complexity
2021-01-12 08:56:00 Deals Suppliers of Medical Equipment to Merge Steris to buy Cantel Medical in a mostly stock deal
2021-01-12 08:55:00 Markets Twitter, Tesla, Realty Income: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today S&P 500 futures are edging higher, pointing to muted gains after dropping on Monday
2021-01-12 08:41:00 World Sheldon Adelson, a Giant in the Casino-Resort Industry, Dies at 87 One of the world’s richest men, he was a big donor to the Republican Party
2021-01-12 08:39:00 Markets U.S. Stock Futures Point to Muted Gains Nasdaq-100 futures ticked higher, suggesting tech shares will steady after stumbling at the start of the week
2021-01-12 08:34:00 Markets Capitol Riot Threatens Trump’s Already Hurting Business If golf courses and resorts struggle to attract and keep members, it would weigh on the overall Trump Organization
2021-01-12 08:31:00 U.S. Trump Lawyers Face Rebukes Over Election-Fraud Claims Lawyers face ethical complaints, lawsuits and professional reproach that could take years to resolve
2021-01-12 08:08:00 World Police Hunt Woman After $13 Million Vanishes From South Korean Casino Investigators say security camera footage wiped as the mystery over the disappearance grows
2021-01-12 08:00:00 Real Estate Big Real-Estate Firms Turn Buyers of Their Own Shares The companies say stock-market investors have undervalued their property holdings
2021-01-12 08:00:00 Real Estate Orlando Resort Project’s Developer Bets on Rebound A $1.5 billion luxury development near Disney World signals hope for a recovery in tourism industry
2021-01-12 07:45:00 Tech Uber, Lyft Push Biden Team for Role in Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout Ride-sharing companies seek early access to doses for workers, offer to take passengers to get their shots
2021-01-12 07:00:00 Markets First, the Good News on Biden’s Stimulus The implications for investors of unified government and a boost in stimulus will be mixed but initially good for stock prices
2021-01-12 07:00:00 Markets Oil Producers Commit to Supply Curbs, Sustaining Price Rally U.S. crude futures recently rose above $50 per barrel for the first time since last February
2021-01-12 06:57:00 World Plane That Crashed in Indonesia Didn’t Fly for Nine Months Sriwijaya Air plane was inspected before resuming operations after coronavirus pandemic, ministry says, as search crews recover black box
2021-01-12 06:33:00 Markets Apple Times Its Chip Gambit Just Right Mac sales boom in quarter that included in-house chip launch, according to IDC and Gartner
2021-01-12 06:20:00 Business AstraZeneca Applies for European Clearance of Covid-19 Vaccine Shot developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University could be adopted across the EU by the end of January
2021-01-12 06:13:00 Tech Samsung Seizes Smartphone Initiative as Sanctions Hobble Huawei South Korean giant recently forecast 25% jump in quarterly operating profit, aided by resurgent phone sales
2021-01-12 06:02:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Revamping Bonus Plans, Value in the Great Outdoors, Execs on Factory Floor Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2021-01-12 05:59:00 World China Reimposes Covid-19 Lockdowns as It Battles Worst Outbreak in Months More than 20 million people have been quarantined just weeks ahead of biggest holiday of the year
2021-01-12 05:37:00 Markets Zombies Could Stunt the Bank Recovery Europe’s lockdown-support programs risk creating the kind of festering bad-debt problems that damaged its economy after the financial crisis
2021-01-12 05:31:00 Markets The Dollar’s Decline in Global Reserves: Fact or Fiction? Greenback’s share of foreign-exchange reserves has slipped, but there are reasons to believe it will bounce back
2021-01-12 05:30:00 Real Estate Remote-Work Boom During Covid-19 Pandemic Draws Real-Estate Startups Many young professionals who left major cities plan to return eventually, fueling demand for furnished short-term housing
2021-01-12 05:30:00 Politics Biden’s Inauguration Planners Step Up Security After Capitol Riot The president-elect said he isn’t concerned about his safety: ‘I am not afraid to take the oath outside’
2021-01-12 05:30:00 Economy U.S. Job Postings End 2020 Well Below Pre-Pandemic Levels Growth in available positions eased in December, adding to signs of a cooling labor market
2021-01-12 05:30:00 Markets Covid-19 Pandemic Drives Municipal Borrowing to 10-Year High Low interest rates, tight government budgets provide backdrop for muni bond boom
2021-01-11 23:49:00 Life & Arts Alabama Rolls Past Ohio State to Win the National Championship Led by Mac Jones’s five touchdowns passes, including three to Heisman Trophy winner DeVonta Smith, the Crimson Tide outpaced Ohio State, 52-24, to complete an undefeated season
2021-01-11 21:14:00 U.S. Republican Attorney General Official Resigns Over Group’s Role in Capitol March Adam Piper was executive director of Republican Attorneys General Association, which sent robocalls asking people to join rally that turned into deadly riot
2021-01-11 19:42:00 Politics U.S. Imposes Sanctions Over Efforts to Discredit Bidens Treasury Department says agents of Russia worked to interfere in U.S. election by seeking to undermine president-elect
2021-01-11 19:37:00 Life & Arts Bill Belichick Says He Won’t Accept Medal of Freedom From Trump After Capitol Riot The New England Patriots coach said ‘the decision has been made not to move forward’ on him receiving the nation’s highest civilian honor in the aftermath of the attack on Congress
2021-01-11 19:19:00 Business Walmart Creates Fintech Partnership With Ribbit Capital New fintech startup will be majority-owned by Walmart
2021-01-11 19:16:00 Tech Facebook Says It Is Removing All Content Mentioning ‘Stop the Steal’ Social-media giant’s moves are part of expanded precautions to curb misinformation, risks of violence ahead of Inauguration Day
2021-01-11 19:11:00 Fed’s Bostic Says Strong Recovery Could Open Door to Bond Taper This Year Atlanta Fed chief also says he isn’t worried about risk levels in financial markets or recent rise in long-term Treasury yields
2021-01-11 18:36:00 Politics Chad Wolf Steps Down as Acting Secretary of Homeland Security FEMA Administrator Pete Gaynor to take over for remainder of Trump's term
2021-01-11 18:35:00 Opinion Joe Biden’s Impeachment Moment He’d help the country and his Presidency by calling off the House.
2021-01-11 18:34:00 Opinion Boss Madigan Teeters in Illinois He’s still short of the votes needed for another term as House speaker.
2021-01-11 18:32:00 Tech Google Sued By YouTube Rival Over Search Rankings Video-sharing site Rumble, citing a Wall Street Journal investigation, alleges Google diverted traffic away from it toward YouTube
2021-01-11 18:31:00 Business More Blue-Chip Companies Halt Political Donations After Capitol Riot by Trump Supporters Some of country’s biggest businesses, including AT&T, Facebook and UPS, say they are rethinking their giving to candidates
2021-01-11 18:31:00 Opinion A Case of Blindside Regulation The Justices can rein in an FTC that increasingly exceeds its authority.
2021-01-11 18:30:00 Opinion Donor Privacy at the Supreme Court Xavier Becerra’s policy on nonprofits is in the dock.
2021-01-11 18:17:00 Opinion Turkish Democracy Isn’t a Lost Cause Its restoration would advance American interests abroad.
2021-01-11 18:17:00 CIO Journal CIO Scramble to Equip Remote Workers Sparked Best PC Growth Rate in Decade Rising demand for remote schooling, home entertainment also drove sales
2021-01-11 18:17:00 Tech PC Sales Notch Strongest Growth in a Decade Pandemic drives sales as employees and students do their work remotely
2021-01-11 18:17:00 Politics FBI Warns of Possible Nationwide Armed Protests Ahead of Biden Inauguration Internal memo warns demonstrations may start later this week
2021-01-11 18:16:00 Opinion Why I’m Taking a Social-Media Sabbatical Going without Facebook and Twitter will make me a better husband, father, citizen and Christian.
2021-01-11 18:15:00 Business Fox News and CNN Shuffle Anchor Lineups Amid Ratings Battle Fox News is adding a new opinion show, and CNN is giving anchor Jake Tapper an extra hour during weekdays
2021-01-11 18:15:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: Peter Huber on the Plague ‘Government contractors will never be agile enough to keep up with germs.’
2021-01-11 18:14:00 Books ‘Kamala’s Way’ Review: Getting to Know the Next in Line She is notably less moderate (or, if you’d prefer, more progressive) than Joe Biden—a source of strength to voters on the left.
2021-01-11 18:13:00 Opinion All Donald Trump’s Deplorables Even Hillary Clinton consigned only half of Trump supporters to her infamous ‘basket.’
2021-01-11 18:12:00 Opinion Beijing Won’t Bow to Bluster on Taiwan Biden will have to coordinate a military buildup with allies to stop a catastrophe.
2021-01-11 18:08:00 Music Review The Staying Inside Guide: Jazz, Live From Your Living Room With in-person concerts still shut down, a chance to improvise on the jazz-club experience—from virtual tours of Louis Armstrong’s house to performances that rework the music of Stevie Wonder and Erykah Badu.
2021-01-11 17:31:00 Music Review ‘Drunk Tank Pink’ by Shame Review: Alienation With a South London Accent British band Shame’s evocative lyrics and propulsive beats stand out in London’s crowded, post-punk scene.
2021-01-11 17:27:00 Finance Blackstone Hires Former Brown Endowment Chief as Hedge-Fund Unit Co-Head Addition of Joe Dowling signals a new focus on the funds as big generators of return
2021-01-11 16:57:00 Opinion Vaccine Queen For a shot in the arm, go to states with small governments.
2021-01-11 16:54:00 Deals Sixth Street Partners Nears Deal for Majority Stake in Legends Hospitality Group Deal values the sports-and-entertainment events company at $1.3 billion, including debt
2021-01-11 16:49:00 Markets Some Banks Want to Consign Credit-Card Interest to History Australian lenders hope no-interest cards can arrest a decline in usage and attract younger customers
2021-01-11 16:35:00 Politics House Plans Trump Impeachment Vote for Wednesday Democratic lawmakers press ahead with efforts to remove president following riot at U.S. Capitol
2021-01-11 16:33:00 Politics The Second Impeachment of President Trump: What It Means and How the Process Works The House could impeach Trump for inciting an insurrection, and a Senate trial could take place after he leaves office—or be delayed indefinitely
2021-01-11 16:30:00 Business Chewy Co-Founder Joins GameStop’s Board After Pushing Overhaul Ryan Cohen wants videogame retailer to pare store count, focus on digital market
2021-01-11 16:28:00 Business Pilgrim’s Pride Agrees to Settle Some Chicken Price-Fixing Claims Proposed $75 million settlement would be the biggest so far in four-year legal battle over alleged collusion
2021-01-11 16:27:00 Markets Treasury Yield Climb Continues The climb extended even as U.S. stock indexes fell
2021-01-11 16:04:00 Tech Parler Sues Amazon After Tech Giant Kicks Site Off Its Servers Lawsuit seeks order to prevent Amazon from shutting down social-media platform’s account
2021-01-11 15:41:00 Politics National Guard Bolsters Washington, D.C., Troop Levels to at Least 10,000 Added forces expected in place by weekend, ahead of Biden inauguration, as authorities prepare for more Trump marches
2021-01-11 15:17:00 Opinion Trump’s Economy Will Launch Joe Biden’s Joe Biden arguably gets the best of all policy-measurement worlds when he enters the White House.
2021-01-11 15:15:00 Opinion Right Price Can Make an M.B.A. a Good Buy The decision is much simpler when the price of an accredited M.B.A. is only $22,500, and when one can complete it without career interruption.
2021-01-11 15:10:00 Opinion Merit and Diversity Need Not Be in Conflict Joseph Epstein seems to insinuate that the race, color and gender type of diversity happens often as a trade-off to merit and accomplishment.
2021-01-11 15:09:00 World Armenia, Azerbaijan Agree to Develop War-Ravaged Nagorno-Karabakh A Russian-brokered peace deal appears to be holding but challenges over POWs and displaced people have yet to be resolved
2021-01-11 15:03:00 Goodman Networks Loses DirecTV Contract, Tanking Bonds AT&T subsidiary DirecTV terminates contract over concerns about Goodman’s liquidity and debt
2021-01-11 14:54:00 Business Ford to Cut 5,000 Jobs as it Stops Building Vehicles in Brazil The auto maker will close all three of its Brazilian factories as part of a broader turnaround effort
2021-01-11 14:50:00 Politics Cuba Named a State Sponsor of Terrorism by Trump Administration Step rescinds Obama administration’s lifting of designation in 2015
2021-01-11 14:46:00 World U.S. to Designate Iran-Backed Houthis in Yemen as Terrorist Group Listing intended to curb Tehran’s influence could also impair economy and peace efforts in country at risk of famine
2021-01-11 14:04:00 Business Carnival Set to Post $2.2 Billion Quarterly Loss as U.S. Sailing Hiatus Nears One Year Timing for resuming U.S. voyages ultimately depends on receiving permit from CDC
2021-01-11 14:03:00 U.S. Joe Biden Receives Second Dose of Covid-19 Vaccine President-elect got first shot Dec. 21 and has now completed the regimen ahead of his Jan. 20 inauguration
2021-01-11 13:59:00 U.S. New York State Bar Association Weighs Stripping Giuliani of Membership Legal group cites complaints about President Trump’s personal attorney in recent months
2021-01-11 13:53:00 World U.K. Hospitals Brace for Covid-19 Pandemic’s Worst Weeks January case surge in Britain threatens to overwhelm National Health Service as new coronavirus variant spreads
2021-01-11 13:47:00 Business Staples Seeks to Buy Office Depot, Again Antitrust enforcers have blocked two previous efforts to merge office superstore rivals
2021-01-11 13:46:00 Economy Fed Sent $88.5 Billion in Profits to U.S. Treasury in 2020 Remittances rose last year for the first time since 2015
2021-01-11 13:31:00 Markets Online Platform eToro Called in Leveraged Crypto Trades When Bitcoin Price Peaked The platform closed all cryptocurrency margin trades in Europe around the time bitcoin hit a high on Friday; prices later plunged
2021-01-11 13:22:00 Life & Arts Bill Belichick, Golf and Trump’s Post-Riot Troubles With Sports The golf world is fleeing from the president, and the Patriots coach is scheduled to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom as Trump’s final days in office highlight his uncomfortable relationship with sports
2021-01-11 13:17:00 Politics Supreme Court Rejects Trump Plea to Expedite Election Appeals Court won’t consider cases until after Biden takes office; justices are under no obligation to hear the appeals
2021-01-11 13:03:00 World Pope Francis Says Women Can Read at Mass as Debate on Women Clergy Continues Papal decree formalizes common practice, but pontiff doesn’t address whether women can serve as deacons
2021-01-11 12:45:00 Opinion Save the Constitution From Big Tech Congressional threats and inducements make Twitter and Facebook censorship a free-speech violation.
2021-01-11 12:43:00 Opinion No Excuses for Trump and the Capitol Riot Yes, the left does bad things too. Conservatives are supposed to believe in objective moral truth.
2021-01-11 12:02:00 Pro Bankruptcy Retail Tenants Leverage Pandemic Stress for Rent Cuts Some retailers, restaurants, gyms and other businesses are experiencing improved lease terms as they gain the upper hand over landlords looking to retain tenants
2021-01-11 11:34:00 Markets Lilly’s Alzheimer’s News Brings Plenty of Upside, Limited Risk Betting that this time is different for a promising Alzheimer’s disease treatment is a fairly inexpensive wager
2021-01-11 11:30:00 Life & Arts Should You Go to the ER for That? How to Decide Medical Options as Covid Strains Hospitals With the pandemic overloading many emergency rooms and ICUs, the hospital isn’t always the best place to seek treatment for some ailments
2021-01-11 11:25:00 Politics Biden Faces No-Win Choice: Play Avenger or Conciliator? Despite the president-elect’s goal of national unity, many Democrats want him to endorse impeachment
2021-01-11 11:14:00 Business Bootmaker Dr. Martens Explores London IPO Brand once favored by skinheads touts its potential to grow in the U.S., China
2021-01-11 10:31:00 Life & Arts Can You Still Spread Covid-19 After You Get Vaccinated? Scientists say even vaccinated people need to take Covid precautions
2021-01-11 10:22:00 World Netanyahu Orders New Jewish Settlement Homes in Israeli-Occupied West Bank Trump administration supported such projects but will soon be replaced by more critical President-elect Biden
2021-01-11 10:00:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Joint Probes to Continue Post-Brexit—With More Red Tape A last-minute trade and cooperation deal contains measures that the U.K. hopes will help maintain cross-border collaboration with law enforcement in the EU
2021-01-11 09:58:00 Life & Arts The NBA’s Most Improbable Player Now Has a Podcast Duncan Robinson, a Division-III recruit who became one of the world’s best 3-point shooters, is taking the next step of his career: his own podcast
2021-01-11 09:31:00 Tech China’s Chip-Independence Goals Helped by U.S.-Developed Tech New approach to semiconductors, developed partly with the Pentagon’s backing, could threaten Intel and Arm’s dominance
2021-01-11 08:56:00 Markets Eli Lilly, Twitter, NIO: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today U.S. stock futures are sliding amid political risks and economic uncertainties
2021-01-11 08:49:00 Politics Capitol Riot Puts More Scrutiny on Big Tech Lawmakers are expected to push to scale back technology companies’ liability shield
2021-01-11 08:48:00 World Indonesia Is First to Approve Sinovac Vaccine Outside China Nation’s emergency-use approval comes despite trial results placing the shot at 65.3%, the low end of efficacy range
2021-01-11 08:39:00 Life & Arts Mercy! Cleveland Browns, Playoff Bullies, Dunk Steelers, Kansas City Awaits A playoff stranger makes up for lost time. Their next opponent should be a lot tougher
2021-01-11 08:37:00 World Indonesia Plane Crash Investigators Await Black Boxes to Understand What Happened to Boeing Aircraft Pings detected as divers face sharp, heavy debris from shattered plane in Java Sea
2021-01-11 08:33:00 World Covid-19 Hit Hardest Where Financial Crisis Led to Health-Care Cuts Southern European austerity budgets left the region ill-prepared for the virus
2021-01-11 08:26:00 Business PPP Loans: Everything We Know About Latest Small Business Protection First-time borrowers get first dibs through community lenders; $2 million max loan for second-time PPP borrowers
2021-01-11 08:07:00 Markets Making an Apple EV Is a Poisoned Chalice for Car Companies Investors in Hyundai may be overestimating the benefits of a manufacturing contract, even from the world’s most valuable company
2021-01-11 08:05:00 Markets U.S. Stock Futures Slide on New Risks The Dow is on track to fall after ending last week at its third record close of 2021
2021-01-11 08:00:00 Markets Intercontinental Exchange’s Cryptocurrency Venture to Go Public Through a SPAC ICE’s Bakkt crypto venture plans to roll out an app for trading and making payments with digital assets
2021-01-11 07:53:00 Politics Biden to Tap William J. Burns, a Former Career Diplomat, as CIA Director Former envoy served as U.S. ambassador to Russia and Jordan and as deputy secretary of state
2021-01-11 07:14:00 Business China’s Car Sales Fell 6.8% in 2020, but That Still Likely Beats Other Markets The drop should be considered a success in the pandemic-struck 2020, analysts say
2021-01-11 07:00:00 Markets The Great Outdoors Offers Retail Winners Both investors and consumers might find some lasting value in the outdoors
2021-01-11 06:55:00 Business New Yorker Writer Shared Doubts on Japanese ‘Family Rental’ Article Before Publication The magazine has added an editor’s note saying three leading figures in the article made false claims
2021-01-11 06:43:00 World China Allows WHO Experts in to Investigate Covid-19 Origins U.N. agency’s top official earlier criticized Beijing for holding up mission
2021-01-11 06:33:00 Markets KKR Buys Into Producer Ryan Tedder’s Music Catalog Purchase involves copyrights tied to some 500 songs by OneRepublic, Beyonce and other stars
2021-01-11 06:30:00 Markets China Gives U.S. Tech the Silent Treatment Slow approval from Beijing is dragging out big technology deals, costing American companies time and money
2021-01-11 06:30:00 Business Lilly Alzheimer’s Drug Helped Patients in Small Trial Donanemab slowed cognitive and functional decline of patients with mild Alzheimer’s by 32% compared with placebo
2021-01-11 06:04:00 Tech Parler Goes Dark After Amazon Kicks Site Off Its Servers Move reflects growing efforts by big technology companies to restrict content they label as dangerous
2021-01-11 06:02:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Rental Home Construction, Investing in 2021, Traveling After Covid Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2021-01-11 06:00:00 CMO Today OpenAP Adds Technology to Further Automate TV Ad Sales Ad giant Omnicom is testing new technology that shows commercials available to purchase from large TV networks
2021-01-11 05:50:00 Markets Chinese Management Companies are Suddenly Hot Property One niche segment of China’s unloved property sector still has the government strongly in its corner
2021-01-11 05:47:00 Markets Blacklisting of Chinese Stocks Prompts Banks to Delist Hundreds of Derivatives Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley say warrants and callable bull/bear contracts will be suspended from trading Jan. 25
2021-01-11 05:30:00 Markets TikTok and Discord Are the New Wall Street Trading Desks Pandemic has led to surge of day trading, helping push stocks like NIO and Tesla to records amid online buzz
2021-01-11 05:30:00 CFO Journal U.S. Companies Revamp Bonus Plans as Pandemic Upends Forecasts Some boards are scrapping existing formulas and instead using their judgment to set annual incentives
2021-01-11 05:30:00 Politics Trade Chief Lighthizer Urges Biden to Keep Tariffs on China The trade lawyer who engineered the Trump administration’s economic confrontation with Beijing argues that tariffs get results
2021-01-11 05:30:00 Business Bluebird Bio to Spin Off Cancer-Drug Unit Pioneer in the field of gene therapies will split into one company focused on rare diseases and a second devoted to cancer therapies
2021-01-11 05:25:00 U.S. Cold Snap Sparks Record Rise in Natural Gas Prices in Asia Traders are struggling to secure enough vessels to transport LNG from the U.S. Gulf Coast to Asia in time to meet rampant demand
2021-01-11 05:23:00 World Kim Jong Un Gets a Promotion, Gives His Sister a Demotion North Korean leader takes the title of general secretary as Kim Yo Jong is removed from the top decision-making body
2021-01-11 03:40:00 World Kim Yo Jong: What We Know About Kim Jong Un’s Sister and Her Role in North Korea Star power of dictator’s sister has risen after appearances at 2018 Winter Olympics, two nuclear summits and as a signatory in state media
2021-01-10 23:20:00 Life & Arts PGA Removes 2022 Championship From Trump’s N.J. Golf Course The PGA of America said it had terminated the agreement to play the tournament, one of golf’s majors, at Trump’s Bedminister, N.J. course. The move comes in the aftermath of last week’s riot at the U.S. Capitol.
2021-01-10 20:00:00 Life & Arts The Lies We Tell During Job Interviews Interviewers and candidates often end up in situations where they’re almost encouraged to lie—here’s what research says about how, why and how often it happens
2021-01-10 19:23:00 Tech Twitter, Facebook and Others Silenced Trump. Now They Learn What’s Next. The social-media platforms’ recent actions show the companies’ influence over online discourse
2021-01-10 18:56:00 Markets A Dollar Is a Dollar Is a Dollar. Except in Our Minds. The form of money—salary vs. bonus, income vs. capital—affects the way we treat that money. Sometimes that helps us financially. And sometimes it hurts us.
2021-01-10 18:54:00 Business Capitol Riot Prompts Some Big Banks and Companies to Pause Political Funding JPMorgan to halt all PAC donations for six months; Blue Cross and Marriott pause funding to Republicans who objected to Electoral College results
2021-01-10 18:04:00 Politics Law Enforcement Braces for More Trump Marches in Washington, at State Capitols Online discussions include calls for armed marchers
2021-01-10 17:59:00 Life & Arts The NBA Postpones Another Game as Covid Problems Multiply More than two dozen players on 13 teams were in quarantine or isolation over the weekend as the league struggles to play through the pandemic without a bubble
2021-01-10 17:56:00 Opinion The Progressive Purge Begins Tech’s stampede against the right will lead to more populist anger.
2021-01-10 17:53:00 Opinion Biden’s First Fracking Test Will he allow a proposed port for LNG to go through as planned?
2021-01-10 17:53:00 Finance Stripe Stops Processing Payments for Trump Campaign Website Financial-technology company’s move follows last week’s riot at the Capitol
2021-01-10 17:53:00 Opinion Europe Already Snubs Joe Biden A China-EU investment deal frustrates his plan to rebuild alliances.
2021-01-10 16:31:00 Opinion Once Trump Leaves, Who’s Left to Blame? People of all political stripes can’t help but project every problem onto evil politicians.
2021-01-10 16:28:00 Opinion When Studying Came Before Football In 1961, Ohio State decided to prioritize its reputation.
2021-01-10 16:23:00 Books ‘The Death of Camus’ Review: Examining the Wreckage Was the car crash that killed Albert Camus and his publisher in 1960 an accident or an assassination engineered by the KGB?
2021-01-10 16:19:00 Opinion Better Weapons for Stopping Riots Investments in acoustic and jamming technology would help cops deal with mobs without shooting.
2021-01-10 16:14:00 Opinion A Light Regulatory Touch to Keep Covid Drugs Current New variants of the virus will call for adaptations of treatments, which shouldn’t need full studies.
2021-01-10 15:00:00 Economy Economy Week Ahead: Inflation, Exports and Retail Sales U.S. retail sales for December will offer more insight into the severity of the broader economic slowdown at the end of the year
2021-01-10 14:34:00 World Israel’s Covid-19 Vaccinations Hold Lessons for U.S. Small country has inoculated nearly 20% of its population in three weeks, in world’s fastest rollout
2021-01-10 14:04:00 Opinion How to Address the Doctor Shortage Approximately one-third of practicing physicians are over the age of 60 and, increasing, more likely to retire.
2021-01-10 14:01:00 Opinion MLB Embraces Negro Leagues, More or Less In 1927 a black team, the Royal Giants, barnstormed Japan, preceding the 1934 tour of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Jimmie Foxx.
2021-01-10 13:59:00 Opinion Columbia Supports Open Discussion, Even in China Public events hosted by our Beijing Center are determined independent of their political content.
2021-01-10 13:41:00 Opinion Latin Politics Arrive in the U.S. Why ‘participatory democracy’ seems always to degenerate into mob violence.
2021-01-10 13:39:00 Opinion No, Trump Isn’t Guilty of Incitement Inflaming emotions isn’t a crime. The president didn’t mention violence, much less provoke it.
2021-01-10 12:07:00 World Nationalist Leader Set to Solidify Power in Kyrgyzstan Election The prospective election of Sadyr Japarov adds to worries of foreign investors in the turbulent country
2021-01-10 12:00:00 U.S. Honduran President Hernández Implicated in Drug Trade Incoming Biden administration faces challenge in dealing with Honduran corruption
2021-01-10 12:00:00 Tech Airbnb’s Section 230 Use Underscores Law’s Reach Beyond Facebook Home-rental site is caught up in political push to change internet shield even as its efforts to use law haven’t always worked
2021-01-10 11:35:00 U.S. Longtime Illinois Democrat and Power Broker Faces a Challenge Amid corruption probe, some Democrats say they are ready for end of Michael Madigan’s reign as speaker
2021-01-10 11:18:00 Politics House Prepares for Trump Impeachment, Could Add Charges on Georgia Allegations GOP senator calls on Trump to resign; House could delay sending articles of impeachment to Senate while President-elect Biden gets agenda under way
2021-01-10 10:00:00 Markets The Top Stock Funds of 2020 Morgan Stanley’s Inception Portfolio, under Dennis Lynch, won the stock-fund race with a gain of 150%
2021-01-10 10:00:00 Tech CES 2021: The World’s Largest Tech Show Trades Las Vegas for Cyberspace This week’s show will be held online—and exhibitors and attendees aren’t quite sure what to expect
2021-01-10 09:00:00 Politics Democratic Control of Senate Creates Path to Repeal Last-Minute Trump Policies Little-known procedure allows a president’s party to repeal some rules with a simple majority in House and Senate
2021-01-10 09:00:00 Markets What Is the Brobdingnagian Base? The phrase, a nod to ‘Gulliver’s Travels,’ describes a stock-price pattern that some analysts believe is particularly bullish
2021-01-10 08:00:00 Logistics Report U.S. Covid-19 Vaccination Plan Limits Speed of Rollout, Supply-Chain Experts Say The decentralized effort focuses on supply with less attention to the last mile, or getting the ‘vaccine from storage into people’s arms’
2021-01-10 08:00:00 Markets A Small Tax Change Is a Boon for Permanent Life Insurance Insurers worried that a government rule from 1984 threatened certain products—and sought Washington’s help
2021-01-10 08:00:00 Life & Arts A Doctor Launches Her Passion Project: Selling ‘Green’ Beauty Products Practicing medicine was satisfying but not thrilling—so Dr. Pooja Goel began selling cosmetics, hair-care and skin-care products online
2021-01-10 07:00:00 Business Ford, Other Auto Makers Cut Output on Chip Shortage Sector starts 2021 by idling plants, faces a ‘chipageddon’ with semiconductors in short supply
2021-01-10 05:32:00 World Indonesia Plane Crash Search Finds Human Remains, Life Vests and Aisle Sign Hopes fade any survived as a search operation recovers pieces of the Boeing 737-500 plane that went down Saturday
2021-01-10 05:30:00 Business Amazon, Walmart Tell Consumers to Skip Returns of Unwanted Items In some cases, it’s cheaper for the retailers to refund the purchase price and let customers keep or donate the products
2021-01-10 05:30:00 Markets Trump’s Ban on Chinese Stocks Roils Investors Executive order was meant to hit China’s military, but has frustrated some U.S. investors
2021-01-10 05:30:00 Markets Markets Rally Highlights Bets on Recovery Optimism about Covid-19 vaccines and stimulus prolong the 2020 stock boom, fueling worries that hot parts of the market are overextended
2021-01-10 05:30:00 Economy This Could Be the Best Year on Record for Job Growth Gains to be driven by a re-emerging economy but won’t offset all pandemic losses
2021-01-09 23:38:00 Business Low on Workers, Manufacturers Recruit Their Executives for the Factory Floor Covid, child care and competition from e-commerce warehouses contribute to labor shortages at many factories
2021-01-09 22:55:00 Tech Apple, Amazon Move to Marginalize Parler Amazon will stop providing cloud services to the platform, while Apple suspended Parler from its App Store
2021-01-09 22:29:00 Markets What to Do With Your Bond Investments Now Strategies for investors who need income now and those thinking longer-term
2021-01-09 19:16:00 Politics Support Grows for Trump Impeachment Over Capitol Riot Additional rioters are charged, while the president remains out of public view following his ban from Twitter
2021-01-09 18:43:00 Politics Economist Nellie Liang Is a Leading Contender for Senior Treasury Post Liang, who specialized in financial stability during her career at the Fed, is being considered for the position of undersecretary for domestic finance
2021-01-09 18:35:00 Politics U.S. Eases Restrictions on Officials’ Dealings With Taiwan Secretary of State Mike Pompeo describes limits as an attempt to appease ‘Communist regime in Beijing’
2021-01-09 16:50:00 Election 2020 White House Forced Georgia U.S. Attorney to Resign Pressure for resignation was part of broader push by President Trump to overturn state’s election results
2021-01-09 16:21:00 U.S. Capitol Riot Charges: Florida Man Who Removed Pelosi Lectern, Man in Horned Costume The men were charged in federal court for violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds
2021-01-09 12:01:00 Life & Arts What Kids Can Learn From Losing A hockey dad reflects on the long streak of losses that reinforced his son’s love of the game and turned his team into winners
2021-01-09 12:00:00 Life & Arts Presidential Pours: A History of Wine in the White House The wines served at the White House tell us a lot about the president in office at the time. Our wine columnist considers a recent book on the topic and also offers a roundup of White House favorites to uncork now.
2021-01-09 12:00:00 U.S. Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout Goes Smoothly in Connecticut State has administered nearly half of allotted doses, compared with about 28% nationally
2021-01-09 12:00:00 The Captain Class Forget Positive Thinking: How Sweatpants Managers Can Stay Motivated Bosses are drained as the coronavirus pandemic drags into 2021. Here are ways they can recharge their batteries.
2021-01-09 12:00:00 Tech The Tiny Satellites That Will Connect Cows, Cars and Shipping Containers to the Internet In the shadow of giants like SpaceX, more than a dozen startups are building their own globe-spanning networks of nanosatellites, enabling a new kind of everywhere, all-the-time connectivity for people, animals and assets on Earth
2021-01-09 11:00:00 Markets Fannie, Freddie Tighten Rules for Condos in Vacation Locales Moves by government-controlled mortgage firms could drive up cost of borrowing to buy units in resort areas
2021-01-09 10:55:00 Politics Chuck Schumer Faces Hectic Start to Senate Term Democrat will lead chamber tackling Covid-19 aid and confirming Joe Biden’s nominees; possible Trump impeachment trial looms
2021-01-09 10:42:00 World China’s New Rules Amp Up Pressure on U.S. Businesses Rules plan to ban Chinese companies from complying with some foreign laws
2021-01-09 10:03:00 Markets Warren Buffett’s Latest Challenger Will Fizzle Like the Rest Cathie Wood has ridden stocks like Tesla to stardom, but funds like ARK Innovation ETF are best avoided after they get hot
2021-01-09 10:00:00 Markets Financial Issues to Consider When an Elderly Parent Moves In With You Make sure you understand the many budget and tax implications. Otherwise, it could be a lot more costly than necessary.
2021-01-09 09:00:00 Life & Arts The Pittsburgh Steelers’ Opponent Has a Covid Outbreak. Again. The Steelers’ season was disrupted when it faced two rivals, Baltimore and Tennessee, who were dealing with outbreaks. Now their playoff opponent, Cleveland, has one, too.
2021-01-09 09:00:00 Markets Think Twice Before Refinancing a Student Loan Federal student loans carry benefits that will disappear if the borrower refinances with a private lender
2021-01-09 09:00:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Companies Examine Capitol Riot for Security Lessons The siege is forcing organizations to pay closer attention to property and personnel risks, risk management experts say
2021-01-09 09:00:00 Tech How to Care for Aging Parents When You Can’t Be There Tech can help with remote monitoring of seniors’ well-being, bring peace of mind; ‘Alexa, call for help’
2021-01-09 08:33:00 Business NIO, the Chinese Electric-Vehicle Startup, Unveils New ET7 Sedan Luxury car faces stiff competition from Tesla’s locally built models
2021-01-09 08:12:00 World Indonesia Says Sriwijaya Air Flight Loses Contact With Air-Traffic Control Boeing passenger jet was on domestic flight from Jakarta
2021-01-09 08:00:00 Life & Arts Taylor Swift’s ‘Evermore’ Braid is More Than Just a Braid How the singer’s newly folksy, ‘cottagecore’-inflected look is being enthusiastically imitated and decoded by her ‘Swiftie’ fans
2021-01-09 08:00:00 World Covid-19 Vaccination Efforts in Muslim Nations Try to Overcome Halal Concerns Religious leaders from Jakarta to Dubai are talking to companies, checking production processes and issuing guidance to ensure coronavirus inoculation campaigns succeed
2021-01-09 07:00:00 Markets U.S.-Stock Funds Rose 19.1% in a Grueling 2020 The average is less than it was in 2019, but it could be seen as more impressive considering what the economy and markets had to overcome last year
2021-01-09 07:00:00 World Italy’s Government Teeters Over How to Revive the Economy Post-Covid-19 Prime Minister Conte fights for survival, as he wrestles with former Premier Renzi over how to spend EU funds aimed at helping Italy
2021-01-09 07:00:00 Art Review ‘A New Look at Old Masters’ Review: In a New Light, Literally After a two-year renovation of the skylights and roof of the Met, many of the museum’s European masterpieces have never looked better.
2021-01-09 06:00:00 Life & Arts Fitness and Workout Secrets From Pandemic Overachievers You don’t have to be a hard-core exerciser to learn and benefit from these unusual athletic feats
2021-01-09 05:30:00 Markets As Democrats Take Over Senate, Personal Finance Hangs in Balance Here’s the potential impact on tax policy, retirement savings, student loans, support for caregivers and Covid-19 assistance
2021-01-09 05:30:00 Business Boeing’s Legal, Business Challenges Persist After Settlement Plane maker faces civil lawsuits tied to fatal MAX crashes and pandemic-driven decline in orders
2021-01-08 20:58:00 Markets The ‘Small-Cap Effect’ Isn’t Dead, After All New research finds that the tendency of smaller stocks to outperform large-caps over time still exists, but almost exclusively within the S&P 500 itself
2021-01-08 20:00:00 World North Korea’s Kim Jong Un Says U.S. Is ‘Biggest Enemy’ Lengthy remarks were measured by Pyongyang’s saber-rattling standards and didn’t mention President-elect Biden by name
2021-01-08 19:05:00 Tech Twitter Bans President Trump’s Account Permanently Twitter cites ‘risk of further incitement of violence’ for ban
2021-01-08 19:02:00 Politics Hawley Faces Fierce Backlash From Colleagues, Donors After Capitol Riot Missouri senator’s objection to election results has drawn widespread condemnation, raising questions about his political future
2021-01-08 18:55:00 Tech Apple Threatens to Ban Parler After Capitol Riot Tech giant says social-media network failed to moderate content that incited violence and may be removed from App Store
2021-01-08 18:34:00 Opinion The Lockdown Jobs Slump The economy is poised for a boom in 2021 after a December setback.
2021-01-08 18:32:00 Opinion A Coup of Pelosi’s Own The House Speaker publicizes her nuclear option to protect the world from Trump.
2021-01-08 18:29:00 Opinion Communist Hong Kong China taunts the world as it arrests the entire democratic opposition.
2021-01-08 18:28:00 Opinion New Jersey’s Subsidy Switcheroo After raising tax rates, Gov. Murphy increases corporate welfare.
2021-01-08 18:10:00 Opinion A Message to the Haters From ‘Florida Man’ Go ahead and laugh. But if we’re such a joke state, why are all of your neighbors moving here?
2021-01-08 18:04:00 Opinion Don’t Expect Police to Shoot at Crowds When it comes to denouncing or indicting inciters, there’s no reason to stop at Donald Trump.
2021-01-08 18:01:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: Pence and the Electoral Vote ‘My oath to support and defend the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not.’
2021-01-08 18:00:00 Arts & Entertainment Sometimes Bigger Really Is Better While streaming is here to stay, it would be a major loss if we couldn’t see movies like ‘North by Northwest’ in a theater, in all their wide-screen glory.
2021-01-08 17:52:00 World Brazil Embraces Chinese Covid-19 Vaccine as Cases Soar President Jair Bolsonaro had maligned Sinovac’s vaccine before his administration agreed to buy up to 100 million doses
2021-01-08 17:35:00 CIO Journal Tech Jobs Soar as Overall U.S. Job Market Dips A tight labor market has prompted some companies to wrangle tech talent by acquiring smaller firms
2021-01-08 17:23:00 Masterpiece Meteorological Majesty Artist-explorer Albert Bierstadt’s “A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie” looms as large in American cultural history as the towering peaks he depicts.
2021-01-08 17:23:00 Markets When to Tap Social Security: The Sometimes Surprising Answer From Online Calculators The conventional wisdom is to wait as long as possible. But that isn’t always the best advice.
2021-01-08 17:18:00 Markets Deutsche Bank to Pay $130 Million to Settle Federal Criminal and Civil Investigations German bank agreed to settle allegations that it violated laws against bribery by using middlemen and hiding payments
2021-01-08 17:17:00 Markets The Case for and Against Investing in Bitcoin The digital currency has quintupled in value over the past year. Should you steer clear?
2021-01-08 17:13:00 Pro Bankruptcy Boy Scouts Challenged for Declaring $667 Million Off-Limits to Victims The panel that speaks for sexual-abuse victims wants a judge to make Boy Scouts assets available for settlement payouts
2021-01-08 16:56:00 Politics Democrats to Introduce Articles of Impeachment on Monday House Speaker Pelosi spoke with chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff about Trump’s mental fitness after he encouraged mob to storm Capitol
2021-01-08 16:55:00 Politics Biden to Outline Covid-19 Relief Package Next Week The president-elect also says he will push for an increase in the federal minimum wage to at least $15 an hour
2021-01-08 16:44:00 Politics Biden Plans to Release Nearly All Available Covid-19 Vaccine Doses Administration would shift from current strategy of holding half of supply for booster shots as U.S struggles to ramp up program
2021-01-08 16:39:00 Business NCR in Talks to Buy Cardtronics Cardtronics had agreed to sale to Apollo, Hudson Executive at $35 a share
2021-01-08 16:36:00 Business Cisco Spars With Acacia Communications Over Takeover Deal Networking-equipment giant seeks to muscle its way to completing the deal after Acacia scraps merger agreement
2021-01-08 16:32:00 Politics David Perdue Concedes Georgia Runoff to Jon Ossoff, Clearing Way for Democratic Majority in U.S. Senate Concession comes a day after GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler conceded her runoff race to Raphael Warnock
2021-01-08 16:19:00 Economy Fed Raised Interest Rates in 2015 Despite Concerns Over Growth, Inflation The first rate increase since the financial crisis drew objections but no formal dissent
2021-01-08 16:15:00 U.S. Man Photographed in Pelosi’s Office Is Charged A 60-year-old man arrested in Arkansas faces charges including violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds
2021-01-08 16:04:00 U.S. The National Guard’s Role, Origins Explained State governors can call out these forces of citizen-soldiers to deal with emergencies, such as natural disasters and civil disturbances
2021-01-08 15:58:00 Politics Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick Dies of Injuries Sustained at Riot The military veteran had joined the force in 2008 and was part of the first-responder unit
2021-01-08 15:53:00 World U.S. Sanctions Senior Iraqi Official for Role in Iran-Linked Rights Abuses Leader of militia group directed killing of protesters, U.S. says as it continues campaign to isolate Tehran
2021-01-08 15:10:00 U.S. Police Identify Those Killed in Capitol Riot Three people suffered medical emergencies during Trump supporters’ attack on legislative complex, authorities said
2021-01-08 15:07:00 World Covid-19 Restrictions Decrease Illegal Migration to Europe The number of illegal border crossings into the EU fell to levels last seen in 2013, although migrants seek more dangerous routes to reach continent
2021-01-08 14:42:00 World Nations Push to Get Covid-19 Vaccine Out Faster in Race Against Virus Rising infections and new, highly contagious strains of the coronavirus are pressuring governments to accelerate vaccinations
2021-01-08 14:22:00 Opinion The Electoral College Saved the Election From the 2020 primaries to the post-election furor, the founders’ system of election by states proved its democratic value.
2021-01-08 14:21:00 Life & Arts Where to Travel After Covid? 25 Inspiring Escapes After nearly a year of vacation deprivation, frustrated globe-trotters are starting to dream about traveling freely again. We highlight six getaway goals for 2021 and new ways to realize each one.
2021-01-08 14:20:00 Opinion The Founders’ Guide to ‘Knock Down, Drag Out’ Fighting The ratification debates of 1787-88 were colored by ‘patriotic enthusiasms’ verging on violent chaos.
2021-01-08 14:17:00 Economy Job Losses in 2020 Were Worst Since 1939, With Hispanics, Blacks, Teenagers Among Hardest Hit Steep losses in leisure and hospitality drove up unemployment across groups already disproportionately affected by economic impact of coronavirus
2021-01-08 14:04:00 Politics GOP Leader McDaniel Re-Elected to Lead Republican National Committee The race for the co-chair position became a proxy fight over how closely the national party wants to remain attached to the president
2021-01-08 14:00:00 Life & Arts Illustrator Ralph Steadman Makes Splashes and Blots That Bite At 84, the British artist surveys his career as a satirist and ‘Gonzo’ partner of writer Hunter S. Thompson.
2021-01-08 13:57:00 Business GM Unveils New Logo, Names Operations Chief at Cruise Unit The new logo features ‘GM’ in lowercase letters and is the first significant change to the company’s blocky blue emblem since the 1960s
2021-01-08 13:55:00 Politics Trump Administration Allows Tennessee to Fund Medicaid With Modified Block Grant Conservatives say such grants will give state flexibility; Biden administration could rescind the approval
2021-01-08 13:27:00 Logistics Report Logistics Hiring Extended Strong Growth in December Payrolls at parcel delivery, warehousing and trucking companies jumped by nearly 53,000 jobs last month despite a broader national employment downturn
2021-01-08 13:26:00 Opinion The Assault on the Capitol: America Divided A truly sad day for America: desecration of our Capitol that everyone on United Flight 93 died to save on 9/11.
2021-01-08 13:24:00 Opinion To Infinity and Beyond, or at Least to Mars Mars is the next true destination for humans in space exploration.
2021-01-08 13:21:00 Tech Is Your iPhone Passcode Off Limits to the Law? Supreme Court Ruling Sought Petitioners including ACLU say passcodes are protected by the Fifth Amendment; prosecutors disagree
2021-01-08 13:01:00 Opinion Impeachment Again? The challenges for Pelosi as she seeks, once more with feeling, to drive Trump from office.
2021-01-08 12:58:00 Life & Arts Apeel CEO James Rogers Wants to Extend the Shelf Life of Your Avocados and Oranges His firm applies an edible, plant-based coating to fruits and vegetables that lets them last longer without refrigeration
2021-01-08 12:56:00 Life & Arts The Online Discount Algorithms Need To Chill Out I just wanted a good deal on T-shirts, not daily offers to buy more and more of them
2021-01-08 12:45:00 U.S. Sidney Powell Is Sued by Voting-Machine Company Dominion for Defamation Pro-Trump lawyer made ‘wild’ accusations about rigging November’s election, company says
2021-01-08 12:24:00 Life & Arts Hall of Fame Manager Tommy Lasorda Dies at 93 The Dodgers legend led Los Angeles to two World Series championships
2021-01-08 12:15:00 Economy Covid-19 Small-Business Loan Program PPP to Reopen Jan. 11 Government extends efforts to preserve jobs and help firms weather pandemic and lockdowns
2021-01-08 12:05:00 Books ‘The Doctors Blackwell’ Review: Physicians and Pioneers Fearing the competition for women patients, physicians barred the door to female doctors—until the Blackwells wrenched it open.
2021-01-08 11:57:00 Books ‘Time Between’ Review: And Your Byrd Can Sing Though he was overshadowed by his charismatic bandmates, Chris Hillman wanted to be a rock ’n’ roll star too.
2021-01-08 11:53:00 Books ‘Tomorrow, the World’ Review: From Isolation to American Empire Where did America’s global dominance begin? In Stephen Wertheim’s view, look to the fall of France in 1940.
2021-01-08 11:45:00 Books ‘The Crooked Path to Abolition’ Review: Strategy and Secession Radical abolitionists saw the Constitution as poisoned by slavery. Could it instead be a tool in the hands of liberators?
2021-01-08 11:42:00 Books Children’s Books: Survival Story The novel ‘Hatchet’ set a boy in the wilderness. In a new memoir, the author shares his own gripping journey.
2021-01-08 11:39:00 Books ‘The Patriots’ Review: Founders Divided With his last work, Winston Groom brings to life the acrimonious split between former friends.
2021-01-08 11:38:00 Politics Mob’s Capitol Attack Unites a Nation in Horror—Though Not Entirely Reactions on cause and effect of the violence show Americans are still divided at the end of Trump’s term and after a tumultuous 2020
2021-01-08 11:34:00 Books Fiction: Victorian Vanishings Paraic O’Donnell’s ‘The House on Vesper Sands,’ Sarah Moss’s ‘Summerwater’ and Madeleine Watts’s ‘The Inland Sea.’
2021-01-08 11:33:00 Books Five Best: On Resilience Selected by Fiona Davis, author of the novel ‘The Lions of Fifth Avenue.’
2021-01-08 11:30:00 Books ‘Meteorite’ Review: We Are Stardust Falling stars have always captured human imagination, but their rocky remains contain wonders in themselves.
2021-01-08 11:28:00 Markets Jobs Market Suffers a Relapse A disappointing nonfarm payrolls report can be explained by Covid-19. That makes the near-term trajectory look weak.
2021-01-08 11:27:00 Books Mysteries: Swedes on the Case Mikael Niemi’s ‘To Cook a Bear,’ Kjell Eriksson’s ‘The Night of the Fire’ and Helene Tursten’s ‘Snowdrift.’
2021-01-08 11:00:00 Markets What We Already Know About Investing in 2021 It may be tempting to keep riding the wave of hot assets from last year. Do that long enough, and you’ll eventually get burned.
2021-01-08 10:27:00 Business Roku Acquires Rights to Quibi’s Content Maker of the biggest U.S. streaming video-player plans to put the content in its ad-supported channel
2021-01-08 10:26:00 Tech Google Chrome Privacy Plan Faces U.K. Competition Probe British regulators said they are investigating plans by Google to end some user tracking, citing anticompetition concerns
2021-01-08 09:56:00 Life & Arts The Danger of Exaggerating China’s Technological Prowess The conventional wisdom about Beijing’s supposed advantages in AI and 5G shows how incomplete tech knowledge can lead to policy mistakes
2021-01-08 09:00:00 World Canada Criticized for Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout Decentralized health system, holiday pause in vaccinations hampers rollout
2021-01-08 09:00:00 Media & Marketing NFL Gives TV Networks More Ad Time to Sell During Playoffs Change will boost broadcasters’ ad revenue by millions of dollars
2021-01-08 08:59:00 World Moderna’s Covid-19 Vaccine Is Authorized by U.K. Regulator Britain gains a third vaccine as it rolls out its inoculation program
2021-01-08 08:55:00 Markets Tesla, Sarepta, Boeing: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today Stock futures are signaling strength at the end of a week of political strife
2021-01-08 08:55:00 Life & Arts Fashion’s New Shearling Obsession—From Phone Cases to Fanny Packs A sheepskin coat is a winter staple, but a phone case? We explain why brands like Cos, Louis Vuitton and Bottega Veneta are using so much of the fuzzy stuff.
2021-01-08 08:55:00 Economy U.S. Lost 140,000 Jobs in December Seven months of job growth end; unemployment rate at 6.7%
2021-01-08 08:50:00 Markets U.S. Stock Futures Hold On to Gains After Jobs Report S&P 500 and Dow on track to extend rally after closing at record highs Thursday
2021-01-08 08:46:00 Markets Long-Term Bonds Hit Hard After Georgia Senate Runoffs Investors holding 30-year Treasurys were pummeled this week as inflation expectations bounced back
2021-01-08 08:46:00 Economy Investors Assumed Democracy Would Endure; They’ve Been Right, So Far Markets, quick to pick up on any threat to a country’s economic health, are a poor barometer of its democratic health
2021-01-08 08:44:00 World South Korean Court Rules Japan Should Pay Women for World War II Sexual Slavery Ruling for ‘comfort women’ exacerbates long-running historical dispute between the two U.S. allies
2021-01-08 08:29:00 Markets Credit Suisse Books $850 Million Charge Over U.S. Mortgage-Backed Securities Charge pushes Switzerland’s second-biggest bank into a loss, denting strong performance during the pandemic
2021-01-08 08:22:00 U.S. Covid-19 Bottleneck Delays Benefits for Older Veterans Pandemic-related shutdowns have hampered older veterans’ access to records needed for benefits
2021-01-08 08:00:00 World Mexicans in U.S. Sent Record Remittances Despite Covid-19 Pandemic Unexpected surge in amounts forwarded home shows resilience in U.S. construction and agriculture
2021-01-08 07:00:00 Business Businesses Brace for a Democratic Congress Georgia Senate victories, which surprised some business groups, could ease way for Biden cabinet picks, lead to increased oversight of financial, oil industries
2021-01-08 07:00:00 Business Grocers Step In to Speed Up Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout Health officials enlist regional and supermarket pharmacies ahead of schedule to address delays
2021-01-08 06:45:00 Markets China Takes Its Pigs to the Futures Market The new hog futures may smooth out some of the wild swings in Chinese markets
2021-01-08 06:35:00 Markets Joe Biden’s Big Decision on Tech Taxes Apple, Alphabet and others will pay the price if the incoming president doesn’t back global reform efforts
2021-01-08 06:35:00 What China’s New Digital Currency Tells Us About a Cashless Future
2021-01-08 06:30:00 Pro PE Legal Regulatory Democratic Control Sparks Unease in Private Equity With Democrats in the White House and Congress, private equity sees the possibility for a clutch of tax rises; venture capital sees a silver lining in better prospects for ‘start-up visas’
2021-01-08 06:11:00 Markets Surging Stock Markets in Asia Look Increasingly Dangerous Unreliable flows and inconsistent narratives have sent different stock markets in Asia sharply higher, with many now outperforming U.S. equities
2021-01-08 06:00:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Real Estate Trophy Assets, Bank Payment Race, Bad Year for Bankers Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2021-01-08 05:33:00 Markets Rental Home Construction Climbs as Purchase Prices Surge Investors are betting Americans will keep flocking to spacious suburban living even if they can’t afford to buy
2021-01-08 05:30:00 Markets Peak Oil? Drivers—and Voters—Could Delay It for Years Investors and politicians have made their views clear about oil’s uncertain future. Consumers, not so much.
2021-01-08 05:30:00 Politics Rising Star Porter’s Future on House Financial Panel Is in Doubt Katie Porter’s questioning of witnesses, often with a white board, made her a high-profile House member during her first term
2021-01-08 05:30:00 Business Kylie Jenner Cosmetics Deal Has Delivered Promise and Peril for Coty Beauty giant worried about social-media star’s personal life, but Covid has been the real problem
2021-01-08 05:30:00 Derby’s Take: Fed Officials Weigh In on Outlook for Bond Buying Stimulus Effort
2021-01-08 04:14:00 Markets Blacklisted Chinese Telecoms Carriers Cut From Stock Indexes Removals come after uncertainty about whether the shares would be covered by a U.S. government investment ban
2021-01-07 23:24:00 Tech Apple in Talks With Hyundai About Car Ambitions, Auto Maker Says Hyundai shares soared 24% in Seoul trading after the report
2021-01-07 22:58:00 Politics Here’s Who Resigned From Trump’s Administration After Riot at the Capitol The full list so far includes Betsy DeVos, Elaine Chao and others
2021-01-07 22:44:00 Politics Betsy DeVos Resigns as Education Secretary DeVos says President Trump’s rhetoric contributed to deadly mob attack on Capitol Hill
2021-01-07 22:27:00 Politics ‘In a Dark Place’: Before Condemning Violence, Trump Spent Day Increasingly Isolated and Angry With resignations thinning the ranks around him and growing calls for his removal, president says he will depart peacefully on Jan. 20
2021-01-07 21:49:00 Politics ‘Trump or War’: How the Capitol Mob Mobilized on Social Media Organizers with large online followings loudly proclaimed their intentions to contest the election results, through violence if necessary
2021-01-07 21:24:00 U.S. Federal Authorities Expect to Charge Dozens in U.S. Capitol Riots D.C. police reported more than 80 arrests; authorities were scouring hotels to find rioters photographed at the Capitol
2021-01-07 21:16:00 Business Boeing Reaches $2.5 Billion Settlement of U.S. Probe Into 737 MAX Crashes Agreement with Justice Department allows aerospace giant to avoid prosecution
2021-01-07 21:15:00 Politics After Capitol Riot, Resignations and Calls for Trump’s Removal President condemns rioters; transportation and education secretaries resign
2021-01-07 20:54:00 Politics Actions by Police Before Trump Supporters Attacked Capitol Backfired Spectacularly Federal and local law enforcement say they underestimated threat posed to Congress, despite evidence of plans online
2021-01-07 20:46:00 Business Some CEOs Fire Rioters, Call for President Trump’s Removal From Office Statements denouncing violence at Capitol give way to more action
2021-01-07 20:40:00 Politics Biden Says Rioters Who Stormed Capitol Were Domestic Terrorists President-elect says Trump supporters who attacked legislative complex were insurrectionists, not protesters
2021-01-07 20:37:00 Tech Facebook Suspends Trump Indefinitely Amid Pressure on Social Media to Clamp Down President regained use of his personal Twitter account Thursday after a temporary block and posted a video
2021-01-07 20:36:00 Business Publisher Simon & Schuster Cancels Publication of Sen. Josh Hawley's Book Publisher said it made the decision after Wednesday’s ‘deadly insurrection’
2021-01-07 20:15:00 Risk & Compliance Journal OCC Says Banks Can Use Stablecoins in Payments The banking regulator’s guidance comes as the use of stablecoins has boomed in recent years, observers say
2021-01-07 20:10:00 CMO Today Comscore Enters Deal With Charter, Qurate Retail and Cerberus Charter, Qurate and Cerberus each will make a cash investment in exchange for shares of convertible preferred stock
2021-01-07 19:56:00 Business Samsung Expects 25% Rise in Fourth-Quarter Operating Profit South Korean company’s projection indicates continued demand for its tech components amid the coronavirus pandemic
2021-01-07 19:45:00 Politics Capitol Riot Strains Relationship Between Trump and Pence Pence believes the president should have done more to quell Wednesday’s violence
2021-01-07 19:22:00 Politics Biden Taps Boston Mayor, Rhode Island Governor for Cabinet Positions Mayor Marty Walsh picked to head Labor Department, Gov. Gina Raimondo to lead Commerce Department; Isabel Guzman tapped to lead SBA
2021-01-07 19:22:00 Politics Biden Introduces Attorney General Pick Garland, Other DOJ Selections ‘Your loyalty is not to me, it’s to the law,’ President-elect Joe Biden tells team
2021-01-07 19:19:00 Opinion Bring the Insurrectionists to Justice The politicians who egged them on should also be made to pay a heavy price.
2021-01-07 19:15:00 Opinion Donald Trump’s Final Days The best outcome would be for him to resign to spare the U.S. another impeachment fight.
2021-01-07 19:10:00 CIO Journal Eaton Hires Tech Veteran as Chief Information Officer Katrina Redmond, who held IT leadership posts at Hubbell and ABB, succeeds longtime CIO Bill Blausey at the power-management company
2021-01-07 19:05:00 Politics What Is the 25th Amendment and Could It Be Used to Remove Trump From Office? Top Democrats have called for president’s ouster after he encouraged a mob of rioters who stormed U.S. Capitol before Biden’s win was ratified
2021-01-07 18:57:00 U.S. Kelly Loeffler Concedes Georgia Senate Runoff to Raphael Warnock Democrats won both races in Georgia, giving Democrats control of the U.S. Senate
2021-01-07 18:33:00 Opinion James Bennet Has a Point The editor returns from exile with some words about public order.
2021-01-07 18:33:00 Opinion The Capitol Cops and Rioters Americans deserve to know why Congress’s police force failed.
2021-01-07 18:27:00 Opinion Insurrection Demands Forceful Response The politics of the mob don’t matter. Government must preserve civic order.
2021-01-07 18:25:00 Opinion Republicans’ Fight Isn’t in Congress The rioters, and those challenging the electoral count, misunderstand how America elects presidents.
2021-01-07 18:25:00 Opinion The Mob on the Hill Was Far From a Coup The only description that makes sense is a venting of pent-up resentments.
2021-01-07 18:24:00 Opinion Law Enforcement Cheers Biden’s Homeland Chief The Fraternal Order of Police enthusiastically endorses Mayorkas.
2021-01-07 18:22:00 Opinion A Call for Christian Revival in 2021 If you find your faith is strained by the pandemic, these practices can help.
2021-01-07 18:22:00 Opinion Trump Erases His Legacy He also destroyed any chance of a political future, all on a single Wednesday afternoon.
2021-01-07 18:21:00 Books ‘Fire in the Straw’ Review: Fishing for the Next Great Book A bibliophile with a passion for the rod and reel, his winding career path led to where books and a love for the outdoors could meet.
2021-01-07 18:20:00 Opinion Islamabad Warily Weighs Establishing Ties With Israel As Arab nations warm toward Jerusalem, the prime minister says they’re putting ‘pressure’ on him.
2021-01-07 18:05:00 Life & Arts ‘Mutant’: An Altered Version—Whether the Coronavirus, Genes or X-Men A term from early genetic research made the leap to pop culture and now describes the latest pandemic threat
2021-01-07 18:00:00 Markets Bitcoin’s Hot 2021 Continues With Move Above $40,000 The digital currency’s price has doubled in less than a month
2021-01-07 17:52:00 Film Review ‘Pieces of a Woman’ Review: Life After Anguishing Loss In Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó’s English-language debut, a woman struggles to cope after her home birth ends in tragedy.
2021-01-07 17:45:00 Opinion ‘Days to Come’ Review: A Hellman Rarity of Uncommon Merit The Mint Theater streams its exceptional 2018 revival of a Lillian Hellman strike-breaking drama that all but vanished for eight decades.
2021-01-07 17:32:00 Film Review ‘The Reason I Jump’ Review: Brightening the Autism Spectrum Loosely based on a bestseller by the same name, this stunning documentary reveals the inner lives of nonverbal children with autism who nonetheless find ways to express themselves.
2021-01-07 17:16:00 Television Review ‘The Codebreaker’ and ‘All Creatures Great and Small’ Reviews: Cracking Codes and Caring for Critters A documentary examines the life of Elizebeth Friedman, who helped take down Nazis and bootleggers like Al Capone; James Herriot’s tales of an English vet are adapted, winningly, once again.
2021-01-07 17:09:00 Business Tesla's Elon Musk Overtakes Amazon's Jeff Bezos as World's Wealthiest Person Mr. Musk has benefited from electric-car maker’s soaring share price
2021-01-07 17:00:00 Books Bestselling Books Week Ended January 2 With data from NPD BookScan
2021-01-07 16:59:00 World Israel Races Ahead With Covid-19 Vaccines, While Palestinians Wait The differing pictures raise questions for Israel about its obligations to the West Bank and Gaza
2021-01-07 16:52:00 Opinion A Moment America Could Use Now A Biden visit to the White House.
2021-01-07 16:40:00 Markets Stocks Rise to Records as Tech Shares Recover Investors look beyond U.S. political discord as Nasdaq advances after Wednesday decline
2021-01-07 16:37:00 Markets U.S. Treasury Yields Jump on Inflation Trade Yield on 10-year note at highest since March; worries over securities ban drag down Chinese corporate bond prices
2021-01-07 16:28:00 U.S. Federal Judiciary’s Systems Likely Breached in SolarWinds Hack Apparent compromise in suspected Russian attack has put highly sensitive nonpublic court documents at risk, officials said
2021-01-07 16:19:00 Business Sheldon Adelson Takes Medical Leave From Casino Empire for Cancer Treatment Mr. Adelson, a billionaire and GOP megadonor, steps away amid Covid-19 pandemic upheaval
2021-01-07 16:19:00 Markets Goldman Sachs: Please Keep Your ‘Storm the Hill’ Swag at Home Bank’s small-business lobbying effort asked participants not to wear shirts to a Capitol Hill event that are suddenly in poor taste
2021-01-07 16:08:00 World Biden’s Vow to Be Tough on Beijing Will Get Early Test With Hong Kong Arrests Incoming administration has limited tools to respond to sweep of pro-democracy figures
2021-01-07 16:08:00 Markets Twitter Faces a Trumpless Future Removal of widely followed president may hurt engagement, but social network needs to bear the cost
2021-01-07 16:05:00 Life & Arts To Make Memories, Stop Taking Photos A behavioral economist answers questions on camera addiction, back-to-work burnout and giving effective compliments.
2021-01-07 15:45:00 Politics U.S. Suspends Plan to Impose Tariffs on French Luxury Goods Suspended tariffs grew out of digital-services tax dispute with France
2021-01-07 15:28:00 World The New Covid-19 Strain in South Africa: What We Know Researchers warn that the new variant may spread faster and could reduce the efficacy of vaccines
2021-01-07 15:24:00 Leadership Bosses, Beware: When You Try to Relate to Employees During Stressful Times, it Often Backfires In a prolonged pandemic, the game is no longer about resilience—it’s about endurance
2021-01-07 15:13:00 World Sinovac’s Covid-19 Vaccine Is 78% Effective in Brazil Late-Stage Trials China’s shot also gives 100% protection against severe cases of the disease, raising hopes it can be widely used in the developing world
2021-01-07 15:12:00 Tech How to Prep Your Bike for Winter Rides Don’t let gray days and icy roads leave you trapped inside. Here, a guide to all the gear you need—from tires to fenders to lights—to winterize your bike.
2021-01-07 15:06:00 Business Bed Bath & Beyond Posts Quarterly Sales Decline Despite Digital Pickup The retailer reported a 77% increase in digital sales, but a 5% drop in sales as the pandemic continued to sap its bottom line
2021-01-07 14:17:00 World South Africa Skips National Regulatory Approval to Secure Covid-19 Vaccines Low- and middle-income countries are expected to emulate the move to expedite getting shots to at least some at-risk citizens
2021-01-07 14:05:00 Life & Arts Seeing Wonder Through the Eyes of Science Like infants exploring how the world works, scientists are driven by curiosity and awe to build a deeper picture of reality.
2021-01-07 13:59:00 Politics Biden Taps Isabel Guzman to Lead Small Business Administration Guzman is a California economic development official and former deputy chief of staff at SBA
2021-01-07 13:48:00 Markets SoFi to Go Public Through $8.7 Billion Blank-Check Combination Transaction is expected to provide up to $2.4 billion in cash proceeds
2021-01-07 13:45:00 World Chinese Media Liken Capitol Riot to Hong Kong Protests Beijing and Moscow, which have long faced criticism from American leaders for their democratic shortcomings, turn the tables on Washington
2021-01-07 13:26:00 Markets Bed Bath & Beyond’s Housewarming Has Yet to Draw Crowds Last quarter’s numbers for the retailer look worse than they are, but there still are good reasons to approach with caution
2021-01-07 13:26:00 Life & Arts Is Scented Moisturizer the Escape We Need Right Now? Some people insist fragrant skin care fosters spalike relaxation. Others find it noxious and irritating. We argue both sides.
2021-01-07 13:07:00 Business Conagra CEO Sees New Consumer Behaviors Outlasting Pandemic Company ramps up production, advertising to capitalize on past year’s shifts toward packaged foods
2021-01-07 12:16:00 Finance Federal Investigators Probing AmEx Card Sales Practices OCC and inspectors general offices of Treasury, FDIC and Federal Reserve probe company’s business-card sales practices
2021-01-07 12:14:00 Politics Top Trump Economic Adviser Resigns Following Capitol Riots Tyler Goodspeed, the acting chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, has stepped down
2021-01-07 12:12:00 Economy U.S. Unemployment Claims Remain Elevated While Consumer Demand Boosts Goods Imports Divergence in labor and trade figures points to uneven U.S. economic recovery during the pandemic
2021-01-07 12:11:00 Business Why the Amazon, JPMorgan, Berkshire Venture Collapsed: ‘Health Care Was Too Big a Problem’ Data-sharing, bureaucracy and competition stalled progress of Haven venture
2021-01-07 11:56:00 Life & Arts Can the Government Regulate Deepfakes? New technology makes it possible to create videos that show a person doing or saying anything the creator wants—and it’s not clear what U.S. law can do about it.
2021-01-07 11:52:00 Opinion Justice, Walmart and the Lethal Abuse of Drugs The pharmacy practice act in every state actually requires the pharmacist to judge the appropriateness of the medication order and take appropriate actions to ensure patient safety.
2021-01-07 11:50:00 Opinion Hunting Viruses and Much Larger Creatures More hunters turning forests into war zones isn’t good news for wildlife.
2021-01-07 11:47:00 Opinion Nancy’s New Way: Sibling, Can You Spare a Dime? So much for Uncle Sam.
2021-01-07 11:29:00 Business Walgreens Says Pandemic Hurting Visits to Pharmacies Gains from delivering Covid-19 vaccines likely offset by pandemic restrictions and people skipping routine care, drugstore chain says
2021-01-07 11:26:00 Business LVMH Replaces Leadership at Tiffany Louis Vuitton executive Anthony Ledru to become CEO of Tiffany after LVMH completed $15.8 billion acquisition of U.S. jeweler
2021-01-07 11:22:00 CFO Journal Starbucks Recruits Company Veteran for CFO Role The coffee chain named Rachel Ruggeri as its new finance chief, replacing Patrick Grismer
2021-01-07 11:19:00 Business France’s Atos Swoops for DXC in Bid to Create IT Giant Shares in DXC, formed from the combination of Hewlett Packard’s enterprise business and CSC, jump 10%
2021-01-07 11:00:00 CFO Journal Instacart Taps Investment Banker as Finance Chief Nick Giovanni is leaving Goldman Sachs to become CFO at the grocery-delivery service
2021-01-07 10:53:00 Markets For Bankers, 2020 Was a Bad Year to Have a Good Year Traders and investment bankers have flourished despite the global economic crisis, turning bonus discussions into a delicate balancing act
2021-01-07 10:18:00 Markets Health-Care Companies Shake Off Disrupters, Make Deals Health insurers and pharmacies have less to fear from business and regulatory threats
2021-01-07 10:16:00 World South Korea Pushes Iran to Release Seized Oil Tanker Vessel was impounded by Tehran amid talks with Seoul over $7 billion in blocked funds
2021-01-07 10:00:00 Life & Arts BMW M440i: A Look Into Car Design’s’ Future? The snarling grille on the front end of BMW’s M440i is bound to raise eyebrows. But the car’s lively engine and smooth ride will put any concerns to rest, says Dan Neil.
2021-01-07 09:48:00 Economy U.S. Trade Deficit Widest Since 2006 in November Foreign-trade gap in goods and services expanded 8% from prior month as imports, exports rose
2021-01-07 08:22:00 Politics Biden Tax-Increase Agenda Revived as Democrats Win Senate Georgia victories give president-elect a chance to implement policies that had looked dead
2021-01-07 08:00:00 Tech A New Service Seeks to Streamline Your Streaming Struum aims to give customers à-la-carte access to content from hundreds of lesser-known platforms
2021-01-07 07:30:00 Markets Banks Still Have Cards to Play in Payments Race JPMorgan Chase’s deal for a loyalty and rewards business is the latest example of payment providers betting on the payment itself being just a part of the value chain
2021-01-07 07:00:00 Pro PE Deals Digital Customer Service Business Glia Lands $78 Million of New Funding The latest investment round brings total outside backing to $107 million and lets Glia keep expanding after a busy year of growth
2021-01-07 06:02:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Stocks Get Vaccine Boost, Threats Facing Car Sales , New Year Travel Changes Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2021-01-07 05:45:00 Markets EV Dreams Power Baidu but May Not Last Company needs new growth model. But a road trip into the frothy electric-vehicle industry might prove bumpy.
2021-01-07 05:30:00 Pro Cyber News Dutch Lawsuit Seeks Quicker Resolution in Google Case Consumers and privacy groups are frustrated with lengthy GDPR process
2021-01-07 05:30:00 Markets Robinhood Wants More Female Investors. So Does Everyone Else. Attracting more women will be key to its growth. But getting more women to trade can be a tall task for all online brokerages.
2021-01-07 05:17:00 Markets Real Estate’s Latest Trophy Assets Are in Short Supply Property investors want to buy grocery stores, but may struggle to convince retailers to part with them
2021-01-06 22:40:00 Politics Biden Calls Attack on Capitol an ‘Insurrection’ President-elect also urges Trump to ‘demand an end to this siege’
2021-01-06 20:17:00 Politics U.S. Capitol Has a History of Occasional Violence, but Nothing Like This Iconic building has traditionally been lightly guarded and welcoming to the public
2021-01-06 19:27:00 Opinion The Disgrace on Capitol Hill Republicans objecting to state electors should stop and certify Joe Biden’s election by acclamation.
2021-01-06 19:19:00 Politics Capitol Police Weren’t Prepared for Rioters, Authorities Say National Guard, FBI and others sent to the scene after the U.S. Capitol was breached
2021-01-06 19:14:00 Markets Roblox Plans to Go Public Through Direct Listing A funding round placed company’s shares at $45 apiece, bringing its valuation to a $29.5 billion
2021-01-06 18:54:00 Politics Congress Aims to Resume Certifying Biden’s Electoral College Win Pelosi says she intends to proceed once Capitol is cleared following riots
2021-01-06 18:53:00 U.S. Trump Tells Rioters, ‘I Know How You Feel,’ Draws Bipartisan Condemnation President’s call to mob to leave the Capitol comes hours after Congress was evacuated following the breach
2021-01-06 18:38:00 U.S. CEOs, Industry Groups Denounce Capitol Riots Manufacturing trade group suggests President Trump be removed from office
2021-01-06 18:37:00 Opinion A Garland for Biden’s Attorney General The D.C. Circuit judge could bring sober leadership to Justice.
2021-01-06 18:34:00 Opinion Donald Trump Turned Georgia Blue His relentless attacks on the state’s election apparatus likely depressed Republican turnout.
2021-01-06 18:33:00 Opinion Jimmy Lai’s Message of Hope The jailed Hong Kong democracy activist isn’t giving up.
2021-01-06 18:32:00 Opinion The Republican Party Is in Disarray The Senate is lost, the GOP is bitterly split and Trump’s actions have consequences.
2021-01-06 18:30:00 Opinion Corporate Debt ‘Relief’ Is an Economic Dud Most companies benefiting from the Fed’s bond buys didn’t need the cash, and didn’t spend it well either.
2021-01-06 18:25:00 Opinion The SPAC Bubble May Burst—and Not a Day Too Soon The hot new way to take companies public hurts most investors, and its track record is now clear.
2021-01-06 18:23:00 Opinion Trump’s Trumpian Final Days Amid the Electoral College challenge, the president is putting the substance of his achievements at risk.
2021-01-06 18:22:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: Mitch McConnell on the Presidential Electors and No Double Standard ‘The voters, the courts, and the states have all spoken. If we overrule them all, it would damage our republic forever.’
2021-01-06 18:21:00 Books ‘Foretelling the End of Capitalism’ Review: Still Free and Alive Belief in capitalism’s impending demise is as old as capitalism itself, and is rooted in an even older philosophy of utopian thinking.
2021-01-06 18:18:00 Pro-Trump Protesters Breach the Capitol
2021-01-06 18:14:00 Opinion China’s Bid for Financial Supremacy and Us Beijing’s efforts to lure investors aren’t a threat to the U.S. as much as they’re a positive incentive for the U.S. to similarly pursue better policies. What will make China rich will also lift the U.S. Growth is a choice.
2021-01-06 18:11:00 Opinion Overregulation and the Precision Cherry Pie Your account in “Liberation Day for French Dressing” of federal regulation of the composition of French salad dressing and ketchup down to its pH content is why I marvel whenever I hear that we need more regulation.
2021-01-06 18:09:00 Opinion Solution to Hartford’s Woes Will Be Complex Hartford has its share of self-inflicted wounds. But many of them are the product of decisions made long ago by folks who later decamped to surrounding towns to take advantage of government-backed loans that favored suburbia.
2021-01-06 18:08:00 U.S. New York Eyes Legalizing Sports Betting, Marijuana to Fill Budget Gaps Lawmakers are set to confront a projected budget deficit of more than $8.7 billion
2021-01-06 18:06:00 Business Facebook and Twitter Take Steps to Limit Calls for Violence Facebook removing posts that violate rules on incitement to violence, Twitter is limiting engagement, sharing of president’s video
2021-01-06 17:26:00 Business Costco Says Sales Rose 12% in December Increase driven by frozen foods, sundries and liquor sales despite lower frequency of sales tied to coronavirus restrictions
2021-01-06 17:21:00 Politics World Leaders Are Shocked, Worried by Storming of U.S. Capitol by Trump Supporters Some see echoes of Europe’s past and Latin America’s turbulence; ‘a profound deterioration of the democratic image of the country’
2021-01-06 17:12:00 Business Trump’s Ban on Chinese Apps Falls to Biden to Execute—or Not Restriction on use of Alipay, WeChat Pay and others wouldn’t kick in until February
2021-01-06 17:12:00 Opinion Stylistic Straitjacket The University of Virginia offers a case study on what to expect from President Trump’s executive order decreeing that classicism will be the default style for future Federal Buildings.
2021-01-06 17:12:00 Politics A Single Day Shakes Two Presidencies, Two Parties and One Nation to the Core The efforts of President-elect Joe Biden to calm and unify the nation have become more complex
2021-01-06 16:56:00 Politics Joe Biden’s Agenda Gets Boost From Georgia Runoff Wins President-elect has said Democratic wins in Georgia would mean Americans are likely to get additional coronavirus relief checks
2021-01-06 16:52:00 Politics Alaska Agency Is Biggest Bidder for Arctic Oil Leases President-elect Biden has pledged to block drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
2021-01-06 16:40:00 Politics Pro-Trump Protesters Force Way Into Capitol; D.C. Orders Curfew President Trump urged demonstrators to pressure Congress to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s win
2021-01-06 16:38:00 Politics What Happens When the Senate Is Split 50-50? After Democrats won both Georgia runoff races, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be able to break ties as needed
2021-01-06 16:32:00 Markets Goldman Sachs Reaches a Share-Price Record The stock’s climb is a sign of how much the bank has profited from the financial chaos of the past year
2021-01-06 16:31:00 CFO Journal MGM Appoints New CFO Amid Takeover Offer for U.K. Gambling Firm Jonathan Halkyard most recently served as president and chief executive of hotel company Extended Stay America Inc.
2021-01-06 16:26:00 Logistics Report ZIM Shipping Pins Growth Plan on Its Small Scale The Israeli cargo carrier says its ‘flexibility and ability’ are key as the company plots a New York stock listing
2021-01-06 16:26:00 Politics Ossoff Defeats Perdue in Georgia Senate Runoff, Giving Democrats Control of Chamber Victory comes hours after Democrat Warnock was declared winner in the Senate race against Republican Loeffler
2021-01-06 16:07:00 Economy Fed Saw Bond-Buying Program Providing ‘Very Significant’ Support Minutes from December meeting show officials worrying about economic risks from surging virus cases, but hopeful about vaccines
2021-01-06 16:02:00 U.S. Jacob Blake Shooting: What We Know About the Shooting in Kenosha A county prosecutor declined to bring charges against the officer who shot Jacob Blake seven times in August
2021-01-06 15:59:00 Opinion The Capitol Disgrace Protesters interrupt the certification of the presidential election.
2021-01-06 15:54:00 Opinion Trump Loses the Senate His post-election tantrums hand the government to the left.
2021-01-06 15:49:00 Politics Biden to Name Merrick Garland as Attorney General The widely respected jurist, whose Supreme Court nomination was blocked by Republicans in 2016, will be tasked with steadying the Justice Department
2021-01-06 15:49:00 World Hong Kong Activists Say Arrests Show Space for Democracy Is Rapidly Shrinking Dozens of lawmakers who participated in political primaries were arrested and accused of taking part in a plot to paralyze the city’s government
2021-01-06 15:24:00 U.S. SolarWinds Hack Breached Justice Department System Cyberattack potentially accessed 3% of the agency’s Microsoft Office email accounts
2021-01-06 15:21:00 CFO Journal U.K. Watchdog Finds Deloitte, Former Partners Failed to Challenge Autonomy’s Accounting The Financial Reporting Council wrapped up a yearslong inquiry saying the parties didn’t show professional skepticism of the company’s financial statements
2021-01-06 15:13:00 Screen Time What to Watch: 20 TV Shows and Movies to Stream This Week ‘Cleaning Up,’ a British series about a mom who takes up insider trading while working a cleaning job at a brokerage firm, comes to Sundance Now; Discovery launches a streaming platform
2021-01-06 15:11:00 World Covid-19 Vaccines Expected to Work on South Africa Coronavirus Strain Vaccines may be less effective against the variant that has come to dominate in South Africa, but are expected to have some benefit
2021-01-06 15:09:00 Markets NYSE Reverses Course Again, Will Delist Three Chinese Telecom Stocks New guidance from Treasury Department spurs exchange to delist shares to comply with Trump executive order
2021-01-06 15:04:00 Economy Green Euphoria May Cost Investors, but Planet Says Thank You Money pouring into Tesla and its ilk speeds up transition to carbon-free energy
2021-01-06 14:54:00 Politics Election Fraud Claims: a State-by-State Guide President Trump’s campaign and its allies have lost dozens of court cases challenging President-elect Joe Biden’s win
2021-01-06 14:47:00 Stocks U.S. Considers Adding Alibaba, Tencent to China Stock Ban Agencies debate impact of ban on U.S. financial markets
2021-01-06 14:15:00 CMO Today LG Electronics Takes Majority Stake in TV Data and Advertising Firm Alphonso The deal comes as TV makers seek to build streaming-TV ad businesses
2021-01-06 14:01:00 Tech Nvidia’s Acquisition of Arm to Face U.K. Antitrust Probe $40 billion deal likely faces more scrutiny elsewhere after chip rivals raise concerns
2021-01-06 14:00:00 Politics Gig-Economy Companies Get Worker Flexibility From Trump Administration New rule makes it easier to classify workers as independent contractors, a win for Uber, Lyft, DoorDash
2021-01-06 13:01:00 Opinion Here Come the Covid Liability Lawsuits Trial lawyers are eager to sue businesses for scanning foreheads and letting older employees work from home.
2021-01-06 12:59:00 Opinion Trump Cleaned Up 5G Huawei is no longer set to dominate telecom networks.
2021-01-06 12:53:00 Business Walgreens Boots to Sell Pharmacy Wholesale Unit to AmerisourceBergen Drugstore chain expects deal to help it focus on retail-pharmacy business, health-care offerings
2021-01-06 12:30:00 U.S. Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout at Nursing Homes Encounters Fewer Residents, Reluctant Staff CVS, Walgreens say they are on track to deliver first doses at nursing homes by Jan. 25
2021-01-06 12:30:00 Markets What the Georgia Election Means for Markets The politics of reflation matters most for investors, but the long-term impact of elections is often quite different than it appears the day after the vote
2021-01-06 12:09:00 Television In ‘Cobra Kai,’ Johnny Lawrence Is ‘an Artifact of the ‘80s.’ And One of the Biggest Things on Netflix In the third season of the ‘Karate Kid’ revival, the character is still a dude stuck in time. ‘He’s never heard the term “cancel culture” in his life.’
2021-01-06 11:20:00 Pro Bankruptcy AMC in Talks to Leverage European Assets for Another Lifeline Movie-theater giant AMC Entertainment is in discussions for a potential financing package backed by its U.K.-based Odeon subsidiary
2021-01-06 11:20:00 Business Crispr Gene-Editing Treatment Could Point Way to Fix for Deadly Aging Disease Experimental technique corrected faulty DNA in mice with progeria gene—but what about humans?
2021-01-06 09:43:00 Politics Authorities Probe Threat of Attack on U.S. Capitol Message was broadcast on an air-traffic control channel, indicating revenge for assassination of a prominent Iranian military leader
2021-01-06 09:37:00 Life & Arts Chicken Souvlaki With Pita and Tzatziki In under 10 minutes you can give chicken a good, smoky char. Wrapped in a pita with fresh garnishes and a garlicky yogurt sauce, it’s a satisfying meal.
2021-01-06 09:34:00 Business CEOs Consider Ways to Smooth Biden’s Presidential Transition, Including Holding Back Campaign Money Leaders of some large companies say they may withhold political donations and investments in states whose lawmakers are challenging Electoral College results
2021-01-06 09:28:00 Life & Arts A Quicker-Than-Takeout Chicken Sandwich Recipe In under 10 minutes you can give chicken a good, smoky char. Wrapped in a pita with fresh garnishes and a garlicky yogurt sauce, it’s a satisfying meal.
2021-01-06 09:05:00 Markets Investors Learn to Love Unified Government Market reaction to Georgia runoff shows that partisan division in Washington is no longer good for stocks
2021-01-06 09:04:00 Life & Arts What to Expect From Travel in 2021 Grounded fliers should see plenty of change this year on prices, mask rules and rewards programs—if pandemic conditions improve
2021-01-06 08:51:00 Markets Facebook, AmerisourceBergen, JPMorgan: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today Tech stocks dropped ahead of the bell after Democrats took the lead in Georgia’s runoff elections
2021-01-06 08:49:00 World Moderna’s Covid-19 Vaccine Is Cleared in Europe Vaccine would be the second to be rolled out in Europe as the region battles the virus
2021-01-06 08:49:00 World Veteran American Lawyer Detained in Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Crackdown Other lawyers fear arrest of U.S. citizen under national security law signals rising pressure on human-rights advocates
2021-01-06 08:42:00 Markets Tech-Stock Futures Fall as Democrats Lead in Georgia Elections Nasdaq futures slide as investors bet a Democrat-controlled Senate would lead to tighter regulation, higher taxes
2021-01-06 08:27:00 World Protesting Farmers Target India’s Largest Cell Company and Its Billionaire Owner More than 2,000 cell towers operated by Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries have been damaged amid a backlash over agriculture deregulation
2021-01-06 08:00:00 Business Covid-19 Case Studies Make Their Way Into M.B.A. Curricula Many business school students are studying corporate pandemic challenges, crisis management
2021-01-06 07:57:00 Markets Turkish Markets Bounce Back as Foreign Investors Return The Turkish lira has risen from record lows against the dollar, trading at its highest level in four months
2021-01-06 07:52:00 Politics Trump Allies in Congress Challenge Biden’s Election Win In a joint session, some GOP lawmakers make last-ditch attempt to throw out some states’ results to secure second term for Trump
2021-01-06 07:03:00 Markets Nvidia Risks Blowback From New Crypto Bubble Surging ethereum prices may drive demand for mining gear with the latest gaming chips
2021-01-06 06:45:00 World Julian Assange Denied Bail by U.K. Judge WikiLeaks founder deemed a flight risk
2021-01-06 06:42:00 World Hong Kong Security Law: How Beijing Is Cracking Down City’s government has used new powers to arrest dozens of opposition figures, eject pro-democracy lawmakers and stifle dissent
2021-01-06 06:17:00 Markets U.S. 10-Year Treasury Yield Hits 1% for First Time Since March Yields started climbing as early returns from the Georgia runoff elections showed better-than-expected results for the Democrats
2021-01-06 06:02:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: REITs Get Clobbered, CIOs Get Expanded Roles, Gyms Test Winter Workouts Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2021-01-06 06:01:00 Markets India’s Vaccine Colossus Is a Model for the World to Follow Serum Institute to manufacture vaccines not just for the world’s second-most populous country, but likely many others too
2021-01-06 06:00:00 Real Estate Amazon Pledging More Than $2 Billion for Affordable Housing in Three Hub Cities Tech giant to make investments over next five years in and around Seattle, Arlington, Va., and Nashville, Tenn.
2021-01-06 05:47:00 World WHO Criticizes China for Stymying Investigation Into Covid-19 Origins U.N. agency called out Beijing after its scientists weren’t given permission to enter China to probe the pandemic
2021-01-06 05:30:00 Derby’s Take: Chicago Fed Leader Isn’t Worried Inflation Is About to Surge
2021-01-06 05:30:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Risk Advisory Group COSO Plans More Detailed Recommendations in 2021 The group is zeroing in on emerging risks, offering advice that is more prescriptive than the guidelines in its broad frameworks
2021-01-06 05:30:00 Markets Global Stocks Attract Investors After Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout Blockbuster rally of U.S. tech companies is regarded by money managers as hard to replicate in year ahead
2021-01-06 05:18:00 Economy Europe Faces Recession Risk as Covid-19 Infections Stay High Where the pandemic has been contained in parts of Asia, the economic recovery continues
2021-01-06 04:48:00 World How Did President Duterte’s Guards Get Smuggled Covid Vaccines? Philippine Lawmakers Ask President has defended members of security detail who took the unauthorized shots in September and October
2021-01-06 04:43:00 Markets Forget Uber, Zoom Might Be the Long-Term Threat to Car Sales Covid-19 was easier on the car industry than initially expected, but might pose long-term challenges
2021-01-06 02:35:00 World Kim Jong Un Admits Past Failures, Promises Future Success North Korean leader, kicking off rare party-congress, vowed a new era of self-reliance
2021-01-05 22:34:00 World Hong Kong Police Arrest Dozens of Opposition Politicians Over Alleged Subversion Operation is biggest since the sweeping national security law was imposed six months ago
2021-01-05 22:31:00 Tech Apple CEO Tim Cook’s Pay Jumped in 2020 as Remote Work Lifted Profit Executive’s cash bonus increased after Apple beat internal financial goals
2021-01-05 22:10:00 Media & Marketing Wyndham Destinations Buys Travel + Leisure From Meredith for $100 Million Meredith to continue publishing Travel + Leisure under licensing agreement; Wyndham to rebrand itself
2021-01-05 20:56:00 Life & Arts Alabama Receiver DeVonta Smith Wins the Heisman Trophy The Crimson Tide senior took home 447 first-place votes, beating out a trio of quarterbacks: Mac Jones of Alabama, Trevor Lawrence of Clemson and Kyle Trask of Florida
2021-01-05 20:39:00 CIO Journal IBM Simplifies Structure of Sales Team Company wants to make it easier for customers to do business by reducing the number of groups it puts clients into to two from 50
2021-01-05 19:53:00 New AI Tools Aim to Automate Aspects of Covid-19 Response Health-care providers are looking to new AI tools designed to streamline the processes around Covid-19 testing and screening, as well as publicizing vaccine availability
2021-01-05 19:27:00 Business Trump Adviser Cleta Mitchell Resigns From Law Firm After Georgia Call Washington lawyer faced criticism after joining president to ask election officials to reverse Biden win
2021-01-05 19:23:00 Politics Who Are the Proud Boys? The Group Trump Told to ‘Stand Back and Stand By’ Far-right group is self-described organization of ‘western chauvinists’ who have clashed with Black Lives Matter activists
2021-01-05 19:18:00 Arts Grammy Awards Postponed Amid Covid-19 Concerns Ceremony, originally set to take place on Jan. 31, has been pushed back to March 14
2021-01-05 19:16:00 Markets NYSE Takes Heat After Flip-Flop on Chinese Companies Some investors felt whiplash from the moves; the three telecom stocks have gone on a wild ride
2021-01-05 19:14:00 Opinion Trump, Biden and a Media ‘Secret’ Recent history may explain the behavior of Republican voters.
2021-01-05 18:48:00 Politics Trump Signs Order Banning Alipay and Other Chinese Apps President said the apps can access private information from their users, which could be used by the Chinese government
2021-01-05 18:23:00 Politics Most Second Stimulus Payments Reach Household Bank Accounts Treasury Department reports paying $112 billion of $164 billion estimated cost of providing $600 per adult and $600 per child to many Americans
2021-01-05 18:20:00 Opinion Why America Needed Mike Pence Trump wants to upend the Electoral College. His VP knows better.
2021-01-05 18:17:00 Opinion The Gulf Monarchies Draw Closer The Saudi-Qatari diplomatic truce is an opportunity for Biden.
2021-01-05 18:17:00 Opinion Pelosi’s Revealing House Rules A new limit on floor votes, plus a climate exception to ‘paygo.’
2021-01-05 18:14:00 Opinion California’s Covid Woes The state’s hospitals were ailing even before the virus hit.
2021-01-05 18:13:00 Opinion Nixon’s Noble Pass on a 1960 Recount There was real evidence of fraud, but the country couldn’t afford a crisis.
2021-01-05 18:11:00 Opinion Americans Deserve Better Than Clickbait Crack This week’s Electoral College challenge is in part the result of tribal media consumption.
2021-01-05 18:08:00 CFO Journal Former Domino’s Pizza CFO Joins Scrubs Startup Jeffrey Lawrence takes over the finances at Figs shortly after leaving the pizza giant
2021-01-05 18:08:00 World Venezuela’s Political Crisis Deepens as Regime Installs Rubber-Stamp Congress Opposition, despite threats from Maduro, holds its own congressional session online
2021-01-05 18:05:00 Opinion Gender-Neutral Language Is More Than a Word Game Democratic speech police demand not only tolerance but endorsement of the progressive agenda.
2021-01-05 18:05:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: Inauguration Bogey ‘Donald Trump would not be allowed to visit Scotland to play golf during Joe Biden’s inauguration.’
2021-01-05 18:04:00 Books ‘The Tyranny of Merit’ Review: The Cream Also Rises The meritocratic ideal makes elites arrogant and threatens communal solidarity. Identity-based policies make the problem worse.
2021-01-05 18:02:00 Opinion Trump Threw It Away He stole an easily winnable election from himself with his lack of discipline.
2021-01-05 17:46:00 U.S. Cuomo Defends Fines for Hospitals Slow to Vaccinate for Covid-19 New York governor calls speeding up distribution of shots a matter of life and death
2021-01-05 17:45:00 Pro Bankruptcy Commercial Chapter 11 Filings Rose 29% Last Year, While Personal Bankruptcies Dived Total bankruptcy numbers for the year were the lowest since 1986, but Epiq expects personal filings to climb in the second half of 2021
2021-01-05 17:39:00 Real Estate Fortnite Creator Is Buying a Dying Mall to Develop New Headquarters Epic Games agrees to pay $95 million for Cary Towne Center in Cary, N.C.
2021-01-05 17:10:00 Markets Oil Market’s Surprise Gift Has a Dark Side Saudi Arabia’s decision comes amid a tug of war with Russia regarding the direction of global oil output
2021-01-05 17:07:00 Television Review ‘Mr. Mayor’ Review: Oaf of Office The new comedy from Robert Carlock and Tina Fey stars Ted Danson as a retired businessman turned mayor of Los Angeles.
2021-01-05 17:02:00 Film Review Luis Buñuel: A Singular Sense of the Absurd A new Criterion set showcases three late films by the surrealistic and subversive Spanish director.
2021-01-05 16:58:00 World Deal Maker for Venezuela’s Maduro Can Be Extradited to U.S., Court Rules Ruling in Cape Verde would submit Colombian Alex Saab to face money-laundering charges
2021-01-05 16:56:00 U.S. Kenosha Officer Won’t Be Charged in Shooting of Jacob Blake District attorney said officer was justified in the Aug. 23 shooting that left Mr. Blake, a Black man, paralyzed from the waist down
2021-01-05 16:52:00 Television Review ‘When Disaster Strikes’ Review: Look for the Helpers A PBS docuseries examines the ways in which aid groups deal with natural catastrophes.
2021-01-05 16:46:00 U.S. Trump Supporters Again Plan Protests in D.C. to Dispute Election Results Supporters—including conspiracy and extremist groups—plan to gather in the U.S. capital for the third time since the November presidential election
2021-01-05 16:41:00 U.S. Pennsylvania Republicans Block Democratic Legislator From Taking Seat State Sen. Jim Brewster was certified as winner by election officials, but GOP leaders say a legal challenge remains
2021-01-05 16:40:00 Politics U.S. to Remove Penalties for Accidentally Killing Migratory Birds Business groups, local governments pushed for limits on 102-year-old law
2021-01-05 16:10:00 World Qatar’s Neighbors Pledge to End Embargo, but Uncertainty Lingers Saudi official says the U.S.-brokered deal returns Gulf relations to normal, but tensions persist
2021-01-05 15:51:00 Politics GOP Senators Hone State Targets in Electoral College Fight Lawmakers are set to meet in joint session Wednesday to ratify Joe Biden’s presidential win
2021-01-05 15:45:00 Economy Fed's Evans: Don't Mitigate Bubble Risks With Monetary Policy Chicago Fed president says Federal Reserve officials should turn to regulatory tools to address financial sector trouble
2021-01-05 15:43:00 Real Estate The Most De-Stressing Room in Your House Isn’t a Room It’s winter, and Covid’s got us largely homebound. If there ever was a time to trick out a cozy, comforting nook, it’s now.
2021-01-05 15:33:00 China Chinese Regulators Try to Get Jack Ma’s Ant Group to Share Consumer Data Request is part of Beijing’s crackdown on what it believes is Ant’s unfair advantage over other lenders
2021-01-05 15:32:00 Business GE Won’t Try to Claw Back Jeff Immelt’s Pay Board’s probe of accounting issues and former CEO’s use of backup jet didn’t find evidence to support shareholder claims of fraud and abuse
2021-01-05 15:13:00 U.S. White House Removes Spokeswoman at Agency Responding to SolarWinds Hack Dismissal is latest among cybersecurity officials and comes as Trump administration deals with suspected Russian hack
2021-01-05 15:07:00 Life & Arts Why Kurt Cobain’s ‘90s Cardigan Is Trending as WFH Style Take off that hoodie. Inspired by the Nirvana frontman’s fuzzy mohair sweater, this season’s cozy, slouchy cardigans were made for the WFH era.
2021-01-05 15:04:00 World Saudi Arabia, Flexing Oil-Market Muscle, Pledges to Cut Production Sharply to Lift Prices The move came after a complex deal that effectively kept production from a group of big producers flat
2021-01-05 15:00:00 Life & Arts How to Stop the Negative Chatter in Your Head A neuroscientist explains how to curb unhelpful thoughts
2021-01-05 14:43:00 Politics Second Stimulus Checks: When Will the Covid-19 Payments Be Delivered and Who Is Eligible? President Trump signed into law another round of direct payments to households as part of a coronavirus aid package
2021-01-05 14:15:00 Business Gary Cohn, Former Trump Adviser, Joins IBM Past Goldman Sachs president named vice chairman as tech icon develops stronger growth strategy
2021-01-05 14:07:00 Markets Treasury Yields Rise Ahead of Georgia Election Results Adding to the boost, the U.S. manufacturing sector’s activity expanded in December at the quickest rate in over two years
2021-01-05 13:48:00 Opinion How Will More Liberalism Unify the Country? Rahm Emanuel stresses what government should do, glossing over what the people can do.
2021-01-05 13:45:00 Business British Tabloid Veteran Keith Poole Tapped to Lead New York Post Mr. Poole, currently deputy editor in chief of the Sun, will start in March
2021-01-05 13:41:00 Opinion Time for the Law to Catch Up to the Reality of Home Care When Medicaid rules were created in the 1960s, the only option was to send grandparents to a ‘rest home’ when their health began to fail.
2021-01-05 13:37:00 Opinion Not Buying What Attorney General Bill Barr Is Selling Justice delayed is justice denied.
2021-01-05 13:11:00 Opinion The Blessings (and Curses) of Federalism The system that saved the election is also slowing down the rollout of vaccines.
2021-01-05 13:09:00 Opinion Trump Proved the Stagnationists Wrong The Obama-era idea that the economy was stuck in a cycle of low or no growth hit an iceberg in 2017.
2021-01-05 12:41:00 Business Union Seeks Removal of Alden Members From Tribune Board in Wake of Buyout Offer Hedge fund is looking to buy entirety of publisher that owns Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, among others
2021-01-05 12:39:00 Markets NYSE Scraps Plans to Delist Chinese Telecom Stocks Shares of China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom climb in Hong Kong
2021-01-05 12:27:00 Life & Arts Cleveland Browns Head Coach, 4 Others Test Positive Before Playoff Game The cluster of Covid-19 infections comes just days before the Browns scheduled to play the Pittsburgh Steelers in their first postseason game in 18 years
2021-01-05 12:26:00 Markets For Manufacturers, a Different Sort of Recession Past recessions have badly hobbled manufacturers but this time they may emerge in better shape
2021-01-05 12:19:00 Politics Pence Faces Dilemma Over Biden Election Confirmation, as Trump Digs In Vice president seeks to balance his constitutional role in ratifying the Nov. 3 results with the president’s concerns
2021-01-05 12:09:00 Life & Arts Is Cheating in Remote School Ever OK? Readers Weigh In Readers share their thoughts on a challenge posed by widespread online schooling
2021-01-05 12:07:00 U.S. EPA to Give Preference to Scientific Studies That Disclose Data Agency head says change aims to improve transparency, but some in public health say it could undermine effectiveness
2021-01-05 11:58:00 Markets Crude Collapse Hands Payday to Oil Trader Pierre Andurand Trading firm among a clutch of commodities hedge funds to cash in on the market mayhem sparked by the coronavirus pandemic
2021-01-05 11:32:00 Markets CoinDesk Buys TradeBlock, Joining Rush for Bitcoin Analytics Deal indicates the surging demand for data and indexes used to track and trade cryptocurrencies
2021-01-05 11:00:00 World Covid-19 Aftermath Could Spell a ‘Lost Decade’ for Global Economy, World Bank Says Bank lowers growth outlook as pandemic disrupts trade, investment and education
2021-01-05 10:47:00 Business Moderna Raises Covid-19 Vaccine Production Estimate Biotech says it will make at least 600 million doses this year, up 100 million from earlier forecast
2021-01-05 10:34:00 Markets How to Fix the Housing Bias That Warps Investment Decisions Overinvestment in property is incentivized by subsidies and favorable treatments in the tax system that governments could withdraw
2021-01-05 10:33:00 World China Hands Rare Death Sentence to Former Asset-Management Head Lai Xiaomin was found guilty of bribery, embezzlement and bigamy; his punishment comes as crackdown on the financial sector intensifies
2021-01-05 10:06:00 Markets Gold’s Climb Adds Momentum to Year-End Rally Falling U.S. dollar, coronavirus concerns lift precious metal
2021-01-05 09:29:00 Arts Dionne Warwick and Burt Bacharach on the Drama of ‘Walk On By’ The 1964 hit—first released as the B-side of a single—was the start of a new sound for the composer
2021-01-05 09:29:00 World Afghan Peace Talks Resume Following Spate of Violence Delegations from Taliban, Afghan government will have one eye on U.S. plans to withdraw troops
2021-01-05 09:21:00 Markets Roku Throws Up its Own Plot Twist Buying Quibi’s catalog looks opportunistic, but a bigger shift into content would be expensive
2021-01-05 09:12:00 Markets How Much Debt Is Too Much? It Depends on Your View of Inflation There is broad agreement that inflation is the ultimate constraint on government debt. The question is how inflation works in the real world.
2021-01-05 08:58:00 Life & Arts A Retired Restaurateur’s Bentley Fulfills a Tall Order When Roy Piscitello first sat in the Bentley Continental GTC Speed, he knew it was a good fit for his 6-foot-7 frame. And tiny toy replicas are a good fit for the grandkids.
2021-01-05 08:53:00 Markets Mondelez, China Mobile, Micron: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today Both Dow and S&P 500 futures are notching small drops with the Georgia Senate elections in focus
2021-01-05 08:38:00 Markets U.S. Stock Futures Edge Lower Ahead of Georgia Elections S&P 500 on track for muted losses after dropping sharply Monday
2021-01-05 08:37:00 Tech Qualcomm Names Cristiano Amon as CEO, Succeeding Steve Mollenkopf The CEO switch comes against the backdrop of a rapid deployment of new 5G networks world-wide that has boosted the mobile-chip giant’s fortunes
2021-01-05 08:06:00 World Where Is Jack Ma? Alibaba’s Founder Has Kept a Low Profile Since October Chinese company’s market capitalization dropped in the final days of 2020 to less than $600 billion
2021-01-05 08:00:00 Real Estate Low Taxes and High Temperatures Lure Finance Firms to Miami Blackstone and Starwood Capital Group are among those drawn to the city
2021-01-05 08:00:00 Real Estate City Apartment REITs Await the Return to the Office Covid-19 hurt Equity Residential and UDR shares last year, with rents falling as some urban employees moved to rural and suburban areas
2021-01-05 07:59:00 Business Auto Sales in 2020 Expected to Hit Lowest Point in Nearly a Decade After a volatile year, demand for new cars and trucks is recovering, fueling optimism for a sustained comeback in 2021
2021-01-05 07:30:00 CIO Journal CIOs Enter 2021 With Expanded Role Their quick response to the coronavirus crisis raised the status of information technology in many organizations
2021-01-05 07:00:00 Pro PE Fund News Oak Hill Closes Fifth Fund at $3.8 Billion The firm, which has roots in Robert Bass’s family office, exceeded the fundraising target by about $800 million
2021-01-05 06:16:00 Markets Moutai Helps Guizhou Drink Away its Woes—and Debt, Too The higher the liquor giant’s share price, the merrier for the province’s government. But other investors should be wary of a hangover.
2021-01-05 06:02:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Fidelity’s Client Challenge, Private-Equity Deals, Families Talk Money Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2021-01-05 06:00:00 CMO Today Pfizer Introduces New Logo Playing Up Role in Drug Creation Updated logo comes as the company brings out its Covid-19 vaccine with BioNTech
2021-01-05 05:32:00 Tesla vs. NIO: Battle for the World’s Largest EV Market
2021-01-05 05:30:00 Politics Georgians Vote in Runoff Races That Will Determine Senate Control Republicans’ record of winning runoffs in the state is put to the test
2021-01-05 05:30:00 Cybersecurity Firm Iboss Raises $145 Million as Cloud Market Stays Hot Investors bet big as companies rethink offices and transform computer networks
2021-01-05 05:30:00 Markets 2020 SPAC Boom Lifted Wall Street’s Biggest Banks Underwriters earn fees helping create blank-check companies whose backers include celebrities and hedge funds
2021-01-05 05:30:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Defense Bill Orders Study of Illicit Finance Risks Posed by China The National Defense Authorization Act directs the Treasury Department to do a study on the money-laundering risks related to China’s government and companies
2021-01-05 05:07:00 Tech Amazon Banned From Using AWS Logo in China Trademark Ruling The AWS trademark belongs to a Chinese software services company, Beijing’s high court rules
2021-01-04 21:32:00 Politics Proud Boys Leader Arrested in Connection With Burning of Black Lives Matter Banner D.C. police charge Enrique Tarrio with destruction ofhistoric Black church’s property after pro-Trump protests
2021-01-04 19:40:00 U.S. Wisconsin National Guard Deployed Ahead of Charging Decision in Jacob Blake Case A Kenosha police officer shot the Black man multiple times in the back in August, sparking unrest in the city
2021-01-04 19:16:00 Politics House Passes Rules Package for New Session of Congress Democrats’ rules also restart remote voting, ease budgetary restrictions for climate-related proposals
2021-01-04 18:35:00 U.S. New York Boosts Minimum Wage and Some Businesses Balk Long Island and Westchester employers must pay workers at least $14 an hour
2021-01-04 18:26:00 Opinion Pelosi Keeps Her Gunpowder Dry Democrats reserve the right to overturn an Iowa House election.
2021-01-04 18:25:00 Opinion Congress’s Doctor Shortage Trillions for Covid relief, very little to address medical training.
2021-01-04 18:25:00 U.S. Former CEO Accused of Biggest Tax Fraud Ever Wins Transfer of Case to Houston Judge orders case moved in part due to Robert Brockman’s treatment for dementia
2021-01-04 18:25:00 Opinion Biden’s Iran Policy vs. Reality in Tehran His advisers cling to the 2015 deal, but the region has moved on.
2021-01-04 18:24:00 Opinion Lockdowns Starve Mom and Pop Paying customers are the best stimulus for any small business.
2021-01-04 18:24:00 Opinion Why We’re Ending the EPA’s Reliance on Secret Science The agency has long made decisions without allowing the public to scrutinize our underlying data.
2021-01-04 18:23:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: Gender-Inclusive House Language Strike ‘father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt. . .’
2021-01-04 18:23:00 Opinion Brexit Arrives, for Better or Worse With Britain gone, the U.S. will find it even harder to influence EU policy.
2021-01-04 18:22:00 Opinion Joe Biden’s Georgia Test Can the president-elect carry Democrats other than himself to victory?
2021-01-04 18:21:00 Books ‘Where Is My Office?’ Review: The Commute to Nowhere Is it worth having central hubs and office towers or would it be better just to rent space for a week every quarter to gather distributed teams?
2021-01-04 17:44:00 Music Review Unmissable Music for an Uncertain Year With many Covid-delayed albums set for release in 2021, here are 10 singles from Drake, Lana Del Rey, Foo Fighters and others that further ratchet up the anticipation.
2021-01-04 17:34:00 CFO Journal Blue Apron Hires Randy Greben as CFO The 43-year-old will be the meal-kit company’s principal financial officer and principal accounting officer
2021-01-04 17:34:00 Risk & Compliance Journal French Bank to Pay $8.6 Million to Settle Syria Sanctions Case Union de Banques Arabes et Françaises operated U.S. dollar accounts on behalf of sanctioned Syrian financial institutions, the U.S. Treasury Department said
2021-01-04 16:49:00 Music Review ‘Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers Songbook (Vol. 1)’ by Barry Gibb Review: Country Luminaries Salute the Bee Gees Dolly Parton, Keith Urban and other musical greats join the surviving Bee Gee to revisit the pop-giant group’s catalog.
2021-01-04 16:49:00 Politics Georgia Girds for Senate Runoffs in Wake of Trump Call to Overturn Vote State official debunks claims by Trump and his allies of fraud in the November election ahead of Tuesday vote
2021-01-04 16:46:00 Tech Slack Down as Outage Hits Workplace Chat Service Messaging platform’s customers experienced problems loading channels beginning Monday morning
2021-01-04 16:40:00 World U.K. Imposes National Lockdown as New Covid-19 Strain Spreads Prime minister tells people to stay at home, schools and nonessential retail to close until mid-February
2021-01-04 16:31:00 Business Mondelez Nears Deal to Buy Rest of Paleo Chocolate-Bar Maker Hu Maker of Oreo cookies and Ritz crackers has been adding to its snack portfolio as consumers’ tastes turn toward healthier fare
2021-01-04 16:29:00 Fed's Evans Says Monetary Policy Will Be Accommodative ‘for a Long Time’ The Chicago Fed president will be a voting member of the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee this year
2021-01-04 16:20:00 Markets Merger of U.S. Insurer Genworth and China Oceanwide Fizzles Deadline passes to complete $2.7 billion deal reached in 2016; Genworth’s shares tumble
2021-01-04 15:58:00 Politics CEOs Urge Congress to Certify Biden’s Electoral College Win Nearly 200 chief executives call on legislators to uphold ‘essential tenets of our democracy’ by enabling transition of power to president-elect
2021-01-04 15:43:00 Business Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan End Health-Care Venture Haven Company had targeted innovations in primary care, insurance coverage, prescription drug costs
2021-01-04 15:41:00 Opinion The Pelosi Rules The Speaker changes House procedures to increase spending and stifle dissent.
2021-01-04 15:35:00 U.S. New York Nurse Gets Second Dose of Covid-19 Vaccine Booster shot marks milestone for state, but slow rollout prompts efforts to accelerate and widen vaccination campaign
2021-01-04 15:23:00 Business Google Employees Form Union to Push for Changes The move, rare for Silicon Valley, comes amid growing activism in the sector
2021-01-04 15:22:00 World Saudis, Russia at Odds Over Boosting Oil Output Amid Covid-19 Pandemic Talks between OPEC and producers led by Moscow ended in deadlock, and will continue Tuesday
2021-01-04 14:51:00 Business MGM’s Bid for Ladbrokes Bets Online Gambling Can Help Casinos’ Odds Internet wagering has surged amid the pandemic, but remains a small part of overall gaming market
2021-01-04 14:46:00 World Qatar, Saudi Arabia Set to End Feud That Hampered U.S. Interests The kingdom will officially end a blockade of Qatar, U.S. officials say, in a dispute involving other Mideast nations that set back U.S. goals in Iran
2021-01-04 14:18:00 Politics Joe Biden’s Inauguration: When Is It, and How Has the Covid-19 Pandemic Changed It? There will be a virtual parade and the Presidential Inauguration Committee has asked public not to gather for ceremony
2021-01-04 13:34:00 Opinion Beijing’s Bid for Financial Supremacy China plans to displace the U.S. as investors’ top target, and global crises have sped up its effort.
2021-01-04 13:34:00 Politics Trump Awards Medal of Freedom to Devin Nunes President also plans to bestow nation’s top civilian honor on Jim Jordan, another close Republican ally
2021-01-04 13:33:00 Opinion An Awesome Spectacle of Dishonesty and Opportunism The GOP election challenge marks a new low-water mark for political cynicism.
2021-01-04 12:56:00 Business ViacomCBS Strikes Distribution Deal With Hulu Agreement will make 14 channels—including MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon—available on Hulu + Live TV
2021-01-04 12:50:00 Politics Trump Criticizes Some Republicans as ‘Surrender Caucus’ Party is split on challenging Biden’s presidential election win at joint session of Congress on Wednesday
2021-01-04 12:18:00 U.S. Queens Mall Evacuated After Suspicious Vehicle Reported NYPD investigators say items found in vehicle constituted a hoax bomb
2021-01-04 12:11:00 Markets Brexit Forces Bankers to Shift Trading of European Stocks Out of London The abrupt move underscores the European Union’s broader plan to bolster its own financial centers
2021-01-04 12:10:00 Life & Arts From ‘Throwing Fits’ to ‘Crime Junkie,’ Podcast Merch Has Become Big Business As the podcasting industry has grown, so has its merchandise market. And it’s not just T-shirts and totes for these fledgling ‘lifestyle brands’
2021-01-04 11:59:00 Opinion The Next Energy Secretary’s Climate Record If confirmed, Jennifer Granholm’s policies would slow energy production, drive costs up and increase government involvement in our lives.
2021-01-04 11:57:00 Opinion No Blanket Protection for Internet Platforms The First Amendment offers the best solution for regulating the social-media companies.
2021-01-04 11:51:00 Opinion Can Anyone Justify the Blackwater Pardons? Four killers opened fire with machine guns and grenade launchers on a crowd of unarmed men, women and children. Or did they?
2021-01-04 11:50:00 Markets Bitcoin Surges Into 2021, Rose Nearly 20% Over Weekend Digital currency briefly spiked over $34,000 before falling back
2021-01-04 10:50:00 Markets Biden Administration Could Unsettle Banks in More Than One Way Percolating policy ideas like postal banking and digital wallets via the Fed give a hint of how Washington could reshape the banking business
2021-01-04 10:00:00 World Venezuela Opposition Debilitated as Biden Set to Take Office President Maduro’s regime tightens grip on National Assembly, undermining U.S.-backed movement despite oil sanctions
2021-01-04 10:00:00 Life & Arts ‘No One Else Is Listening’: Readers Share Experiences With Long-Haul Covid Readers describe debilitating symptoms that have continued for months after an initial diagnosis
2021-01-04 09:58:00 Politics In Trump’s Final Days, Lines Are Drawn for a Republican Civil War Amid the president’s loyalty test, the unanswerable question is whether he can maintain his hold on the party once out of office
2021-01-04 09:38:00 Markets China’s Economic Data: A Guide for the Dazed and Confused Investors are right to be skeptical about China’s economic data. Here’s how to interpret it.
2021-01-04 09:00:00 CFO Journal U.S. Accounting Standard-Setter Looks to Tackle Controversial Topics in 2021 Financial Accounting Standards Board is expected to give priority to issues such as recognizing goodwill and disclosing expenses
2021-01-04 08:57:00 U.S. As Covid-19 Surges in Jails, Guards Want Vaccine Early Some officials oppose inmates being inoculated ahead of general population
2021-01-04 08:54:00 Markets Tesla, FLIR Systems, Bitcoin: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today S&P 500 futures are rising at the start of the week as investors hope the vaccine rollout will aid economic recovery and benefit stocks
2021-01-04 08:42:00 Markets U.S. Stock Futures Point to Extended Rally S&P 500, Dow poised to edge higher after both benchmarks closed at records on last day of 2020
2021-01-04 08:38:00 World South Korea’s Population Falls for First Time, Likely Worsened by Covid-19 Drop in marriages and job losses aggravate demographics for country with world’s lowest fertility rate
2021-01-04 08:35:00 Life & Arts Here’s Your NFL Playoffs, Which Have Mostly Everything, Including, Yes, the Cleveland Browns A hectic regular-season finale delivers a postseason bid to a woebegone franchise—and an apparent Philadelphia surrender to Washington, which infuriated hopeful Giants fans
2021-01-04 08:24:00 Markets What the Delisting of Chinese ADRs Means for Investors The New York Stock Exchange will start to delist American depositary receipts in China’s three big telecom operators
2021-01-04 08:22:00 Business Fiat Chrysler, PSA Shareholders Vote on Trans-Atlantic Tie-Up Peugeot maker approves the merger that would create a global auto-producing giant selling 8.7 million vehicles annually; FCA to vote later Monday
2021-01-04 08:11:00 World Iran Begins Enriching Uranium to 20% Purity Tehran returns to pre-nuclear-deal levels of uranium enrichment
2021-01-04 07:51:00 Markets Cotton Prices Rise as Lack of Rain Shrinks Crop Weakened dollar and ban on Chinese cotton stoke demand for supply in U.S., where growers contend with adverse weather
2021-01-04 07:42:00 Business Covid-19 Vaccines Are in High Demand, but Thousands More Workers Are Needed to Make Them Companies mass producing shots for Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca are racing to find staff: ‘We are truly in unprecedented territory’
2021-01-04 07:30:00 CIO Journal For Many CIOs, 2020’s Digital Acceleration Was Only the Beginning Technology and processes deployed during the pandemic set the stage for future digital efforts
2021-01-04 07:10:00 Markets Stock Market Rally in 2020 Easily Outpaced Luxury Goods, Hedge Funds The Nasdaq index jumped nearly 43%, compared with average rise of 6.3% across hedge funds and 5.9% increase in value of classic cars
2021-01-04 07:00:00 Private-Equity Fundraising Poised to Bounce Back in 2021 Limited partners want to invest more in the asset class after the pandemic slowed fundraising in 2020
2021-01-04 07:00:00 Markets Videogames’ Immunity Boost Might Linger Pandemic led to year of strong sales despite flops and delays and 2021 will likely start out the same
2021-01-04 06:51:00 Markets MGM’s Entain Bet Could Help the House Keep Winning Gambling’s move online will probably persist even after the pandemic ebbs
2021-01-04 06:31:00 World U.K. Judge Blocks Julian Assange’s Extradition to U.S., Citing Suicide Risk The risk of the WikiLeaks founder resorting to suicide is too high to grant extradition, the judge said
2021-01-04 06:02:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: The Everything Rally, Buy American Push, Destination Spa Potential Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2021-01-04 05:30:00 Asia North Korea Requests Covid-19 Vaccines From Global Group Country, which has reported zero infections, has also asked several European embassies how it might obtain the shots, according to people familiar with the matter
2021-01-04 05:30:00 Markets Fidelity’s Challenge Is to Turn Day Traders Into Longtime Clients Firm hopes new investors will graduate to more lucrative offerings such as financial advice
2021-01-04 05:27:00 Markets Looming Delisting Jolts Chinese Telecom Stocks China Mobile recorded its lowest closing price since June 2006
2021-01-04 05:20:00 Economy Manufacturers Overcame Covid-19 Setbacks to End 2020 on High Note Sector’s strength in Europe and Asia contrasts with services harmed by pandemic restrictions; U.S. figures due on Monday
2021-01-03 22:56:00 Markets Carl Icahn Sells More Than Half of His Herbalife Stake Billionaire is also relinquishing his seats on the nutritional-supplements company’s board
2021-01-03 22:46:00 Business Roku Nears Deal to Buy Rights to Quibi’s Content Short-form streaming service Quibi is winding down its operations after failing to gain traction
2021-01-03 22:40:00 Politics USS Nimitz to Stay in Middle East to Counter Iran Threat on Anniversary Acting secretary of defense’s move marks change of heart after he had initially ordered carrier home to Washington state
2021-01-03 21:47:00 Politics Trump’s Georgia Call: Listen to the Audio and Read a Full Transcript President urged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to overturn the state’s victory for President-elect Joe Biden
2021-01-03 20:00:00 Life & Arts Should You Join a Startup During the Pandemic? The romance of working at a small, up-and-coming company has been offset for some young workers by the added risk
2021-01-03 19:30:00 Politics Biden Inauguration to Feature Virtual Parade The president-elect’s inaugural committee lays out plans for scaled-down events on Jan. 20
2021-01-03 19:00:00 U.S. Lawsuit Challenges New York Ethics Commission A former state senator says watchdog entity no longer has jurisdiction to pursue an allegation against him
2021-01-03 18:04:00 Politics Trump Pressured Georgia Secretary of State to ‘Find’ Votes ‘There is nothing wrong with saying, you know, that you recalculated,’ the president told Brad Raffensperger
2021-01-03 17:38:00 Opinion The Election Rejectionists The GOP stunt over the Electoral College will hurt the country and the party.
2021-01-03 17:36:00 Opinion The ‘Flick’ of Joe’s Pen Biden is right to resist calls to forgive student debt by fiat.
2021-01-03 17:35:00 Opinion Beijing’s Ant-Eaters The ruling Party shows Jack Ma and investors who’s the real boss.
2021-01-03 16:46:00 Opinion All Pence Can Do Is Count The Constitutions is clear. Neither the vice president or Congress has the power to reject electoral votes.
2021-01-03 16:44:00 Opinion Pharmacies Can Get Shots in Arms To speed up vaccine distribution, let national chains like CVS and Walgreens take a role.
2021-01-03 16:42:00 Opinion The N.J. Teachers Who Get Paid Not to Teach They’re on taxpayer-funded salaries while working for the union.
2021-01-03 16:40:00 Opinion One Trump-Era Notion Biden May Want to Embrace Independent regulators should analyze the costs and benefits of new rules, like executive agencies do.
2021-01-03 16:37:00 Opinion Argentina’s Credibility Crisis After a 2020 debt restructuring there is no reform agenda to avoid another.
2021-01-03 16:36:00 Books ‘Exercised’ Review: Born to Run? There’s something neurotic about our obsession with physical activity. A specialist in human locomotion offers some perspective.
2021-01-03 16:27:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: ‘Crazy Heads of the Press’ ‘Such words, whether thoughtlessly or maliciously uttered, should be met with the sternest indignation.’
2021-01-03 16:12:00 Deals MGM Seeks to Buy Ladbrokes Owner Entain Major MGM shareholder IAC backs latest, increased offer for British gaming company
2021-01-03 15:00:00 Economy Economy Week Ahead: Fed Minutes, Trade Deficit and Employment December jobs report is expected to show labor market ended year on weak footing
2021-01-03 13:51:00 World Israel Vaccinates More Than 10% of Its Population in Two Weeks Government aims to immunize majority of people by early spring, accelerating its vaccination drive after early hiccups led to wasted shots
2021-01-03 13:18:00 Opinion How the Fed Stifles Lending Quantitative easing hoovers up bonds, leaving less collateral for eager borrowers.
2021-01-03 13:18:00 Opinion Welcome to the Era of Nonstop Stimulus Spending didn’t speed the last recovery, but Biden’s team is keen to keep the money flowing endlessly.
2021-01-03 12:01:00 Life & Arts Bevy Smith on What It Takes to Launch a Second Career The SiriusXM radio host and TV personality, with a new book, gives advice from her own experience in career reinvention
2021-01-03 11:49:00 World India Authorizes Covid-19 Vaccines and Readies Inoculation Campaign Officials plan to vaccinate 300 million in the coming months to protect citizens and economy from the pandemic
2021-01-03 11:10:00 Opinion Woke Teachers Don’t Understand the Classics #DisruptTexts denies students access to literature that teaches eternal lessons, including Hawthorne on the dangers of fanaticism.
2021-01-03 11:08:00 Opinion How Government Subsidized the Opioid Crisis The share of opioid pills paid for by the government went from 17% to 60% through the initial phase of the epidemic, from 2001 to 2010, when prescriptions dominated misuse.
2021-01-03 11:04:00 Opinion Georgia Rabbis Disagree About Warnock and Israel ‘Rev. Warnock misused his pulpit to bear false witness,’ they write.
2021-01-03 11:00:00 Markets Risk Takers Bet Asset-Backed Bonds Will Catch Up Securities that have recovered only haltingly from last spring’s rout are getting fresh attention
2021-01-03 10:51:00 World Marines Prepare for Rising Challenge From China’s Military With Island Training Drilling in Japan, U.S. forces practice recapturing territory as Beijing develops into ‘near-peer’ rival
2021-01-03 10:00:00 Markets Double Stock-Market Bubble Brings Toil and (Perhaps) Trouble Investment choices previously viewed as overpriced showed big gains in 2020. Can they prove doubters wrong again?
2021-01-03 09:03:00 Markets Trump’s Trade War Will Be Left for Biden to Win For all its contradictions, president’s trade battle with China could smooth way for incoming administration to do better
2021-01-03 08:00:00 Business Do You Need to Get an M.B.A.? Applications to business schools are on the rise, but the management degree isn’t a good fit for everybody
2021-01-03 08:00:00 Business Startups Going Public Via SPACs Face Fewer Limits on Promoting Stock Companies can dazzle investors by appearing on YouTube and other media outlets in ways those doing traditional IPOs can’t
2021-01-03 07:00:00 Politics Pelosi Faces Narrow Margin in House Speaker Vote Lawmakers reconvene with smaller Democratic majority and absences expected because of coronavirus
2021-01-03 07:00:00 World Covid-19 Shipping Problems Squeeze China’s Exporters Surging demand in the West and port delays drive up costs for companies that have fueled the country’s economic recovery
2021-01-03 07:00:00 Markets How the American Mortgage Machine Works A lot has to happen to make 30-year mortgages at super-low interest rates possible. Investors should understand what each player in the process does, and what risks they take.
2021-01-03 05:30:00 Economy Economists Expect Tough Sledding in Winter, Then a Rebound Firms face a difficult first quarter as Covid-19 cases surge, but stimulus and vaccines offer hope for a snapback later in 2021
2021-01-03 05:30:00 Markets From Stocks to Bitcoin, Investors Bet the ‘Everything Rally’ Will Continue A historic nine-month advance is raising expectations that coronavirus vaccines and stimulus programs will keep markets surging in 2021
2021-01-02 16:23:00 Politics Electoral College Results to Be Contested by Group of GOP Senators The move by Trump allies, including Ted Cruz and James Lankford, isn’t expected to succeed in overturning President-elect Joe Biden’s win
2021-01-02 16:16:00 Markets Cleared Hurdle Still Leaves Tesla Stock in Ludicrous Mode Tesla meets own guidance for annual production, but valuation still looks hard to justify
2021-01-02 13:48:00 Business Elon Musk Steers Tesla to Record Deliveries The electric-vehicle maker’s sales soared despite a drop in global demand for new cars during the Covid-19 pandemic
2021-01-02 12:03:00 Business Hotel Owners Continue to Reel From the Pandemic Tourism may bounce back this year, but business travel faces a slower recovery
2021-01-02 12:01:00 Life & Arts How Joe Biden Should Handle White House Infighting History suggests that the president-elect should insist on strong decision-making processes and deal firmly with staff misbehavior
2021-01-02 12:00:00 Life & Arts Gorpcore: How Arc’teryx Parkas and Salomon Hiking Boots Became High Fashion Urban guys are wearing technical outdoor gear from brands like Patagonia, And Wander and the North Face. They look like they could summit Everest—but they’re probably just running to Starbucks.
2021-01-02 12:00:00 Business Is a Home Office Actually More Productive? Some Workers Think So. Surveys of employees suggest that plenty of workers are adjusting to remote work—and in no hurry to return to the office
2021-01-02 12:00:00 Personal Board of Directors How WWT’s Jim Kavanaugh Got the Goal He Wanted The former professional soccer player reveals the mentors he turned to while building a successful high-tech company
2021-01-02 10:52:00 World Covid-19 Vaccine Made by AstraZeneca, Oxford Is Authorized by India Inoculation is expected to be widely used given its lower price and easier transport compared with other front-runners
2021-01-02 10:03:00 Markets Office Landlords Will Be Squeezed by Secondhand Market Companies are subletting space they no longer need from London to San Francisco. The trend could force property owners to lower rents.
2021-01-02 10:00:00 CFO Journal CFOs in 2021 Will Keep an Eye on These 10 Things Economic recovery, corporate taxes and mergers and acquisitions are expected to be top of mind for many finance chiefs
2021-01-02 09:00:00 Markets China’s State Capitalism Collides With Its Technological Ambitions Enduring power of China’s state-owned enterprises looks like a potential Achilles’ heel
2021-01-02 08:00:00 Politics How Russia’s ‘Info Warrior’ Hackers Let Kremlin Play Geopolitics on the Cheap Moscow, with its growing cyber capabilities, appears undeterred by Western sanctions and other countermeasures
2021-01-02 08:00:00 U.S. New York City Aims to Give 1 Million Covid-19 Vaccines by End of January Mayor says goal is achievable but challenging as city plans to set up 250 more vaccination sites
2021-01-02 07:02:00 Markets Europe’s Covid-19 Bond Issuance Addressed Fiscal Shortcomings In 2020, EU took step toward permanent taxation and spending role when it sold debt on behalf of member countries to cope with pandemic
2021-01-02 07:00:00 Art Review ‘David Hockney: Drawing From Life’ Review: A Lesson in Aging Gracefully In the first exhibit to focus on the artist’s portraits on paper, over 100 works capture the progression of time in the visages of the painter and four other frequent subjects.
2021-01-02 07:00:00 Politics How Trump Allies in Congress Plan to Challenge Joe Biden’s Electoral College Win Effort on Jan. 6 to get House, Senate to overturn some states’ election results could force debate and votes
2021-01-02 06:00:00 Life & Arts The Family-Friendly Workout to Fight Cabin Fever These exercises can boost your core strength, reaction skills and agility, and work well for adults or kids with energy to burn
2021-01-02 05:30:00 Business CEO Behind KFC, Taco Bell Orders Fast-Food Growth To Go Yum Brands’ David Gibbs discusses a post-pandemic future with multiple drive-through lanes and less dine-in business
2021-01-02 01:06:00 Life & Arts Ohio State Stuns Clemson, Setting Up Title Showdown With Alabama A big performance by quarterback Justin Fields sends the Buckeyes to the college football championship against the Crimson Tide, who beat Notre Dame.
2021-01-01 22:49:00 Politics Judge Dismisses Effort to Derail Count of Electors’ Votes Rep. Louie Gohmert sought to allow Vice President Pence to negate electoral votes
2021-01-01 18:03:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Defense-Bill Override Paves Way for Overhaul of Anti-Money-Laundering Rules New requirements for ownership disclosures, part of National Defense Authorization Act, will help prevent use of shell companies for illicit finance, proponents say
2021-01-01 17:41:00 Opinion What’s at Stake in Georgia Here’s the difference between a Democratic and Republican Senate this year.
2021-01-01 16:57:00 Life & Arts The Great American Salad Revolution No longer a drab exercise in dieting or self-denial, salads have become a sharp, spicy reflection of the best in culinary trends
2021-01-01 16:46:00 Opinion The Future Turns 50 This Year From computers and money to relations with China, 1971 changed the world in many ways.
2021-01-01 16:42:00 Opinion The Year in Covid ‘Messaging’ It’s ludicrously late in the day to fault Dr. Fauci for spinning the public.
2021-01-01 16:40:00 Opinion What Isn’t the Matter With Hartford? Once famous as the insurance capital of the world, Connecticut’s capital city is falling apart.
2021-01-01 16:38:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: Electors ‘It’s not that partisans of one side or another are more prone to accept conspiratorial claims.’
2021-01-01 16:33:00 Politics Senate Overrides Trump’s Veto of NDAA Defense Bill Bipartisan vote came after president objected to certain measures including renaming bases and lack of changes to online content laws
2021-01-01 15:17:00 World Reluctant Whisky Baron Launched a Global Hit, Glenfiddich Sandy Grant Gordon, who has died at age 89, joined family-owned William Grant & Sons and created global market for single-malt whisky
2021-01-01 15:00:00 Life & Arts Awed by the Meteor Shower of the New Year’s Sky Human beings have always marveled at displays like this weekend’s Quadrantids, but now we can understand them as well.
2021-01-01 14:37:00 World Wave of Black Politicians Takes Office in Brazil Inspired in part by African-Americans, Afro-Brazilians gain traction in a country with ingrained racial inequality
2021-01-01 13:15:00 World U.S., Iraq Warn Iran Against Attacks Iranian-backed militias urge violence to mark last year’s American drone strike that killed Qassem Soleimani, one of Tehran’s top military leaders
2021-01-01 13:13:00 Life & Arts ‘Long-Hauler’: When Covid-19’s Symptoms Last and Last The name that a Portland teacher gave to her support group to describe their mysteriously slow recoveries has caught on as the medical designation
2021-01-01 13:09:00 Life & Arts The Bizarre Ending to the NFL’s 2020 Season The Washington Football Team, Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants battle to win a historically bad NFC East. The AFC is stacked. And an oddball cast of quarterbacks could decide the season’s final week.
2021-01-01 13:01:00 Life & Arts Can Spa Resorts Still Be Relaxing During Covid? Destination spas are positioning themselves as refuges during the pandemic—moving treatments outside and getting creative with their stress-busting cures. ‘Eye hug,’ anyone?
2021-01-01 12:20:00 Business Drugmakers Raise Prices 3.3% in the New Year About 70 companies raised prices, albeit at a lower rate than in recent years
2021-01-01 11:40:00 Tech Tech That Will Change Your Life in 2021 New ways to work, exercise, see the doctor, watch movies and sanitize every surface in sight will continue to proliferate. So will monthly subscription fees.
2021-01-01 11:29:00 Tech Wolfgang Puck’s Favorite Kitchen Gadgets The restaurant mogul and executive producer of HBO Max’s new docuseries ‘The Event’ on crucial food-prep tools, cooking to music and his favorite quarantine binge
2021-01-01 11:28:00 Business Tribune Publishing Creates Team to Review Alden’s Buyout Offer Hedge fund, which already owns 32% of news organization, is seeking to acquire the rest
2021-01-01 11:16:00 Books ‘The Next Great Migration’ Review: A World in Motion From coral reefs to humans, all living organisms migrate in response to deprivation or pressure. Are we ready for the next big wave?
2021-01-01 11:08:00 Books ‘House of Trelawney’ Review: The Weight of the Estate A Cornish manor becomes a symbol of long-held illusions in a comic tale of aristocracy’s end.
2021-01-01 11:00:00 Life & Arts Which Countries Have Responded Best to Covid-19? The world should learn from the most successful strategies for testing, quarantine, public communication and economic support.
2021-01-01 10:35:00 Life & Arts Ford’s All-Electric Mach-E: A ‘Mustang’ in Name Only Despite a familiar moniker, Ford’s new EV crossover bears little resemblance to the brand’s iconic thoroughbred. But even with its bulky body, it can still tear down the streets, says Dan Neil.
2021-01-01 09:00:00 U.S. Covid-19, Protests Prompt New Laws in 2021 Across U.S. Workers’ rights, affordable health care and police reform are among issues in focus for state legislatures
2021-01-01 09:00:00 Business Airlines Buckle Their Seat Belts for a Bumpy 2021 Some are cutting back schedules; others are buying planes and adding cities to their routes. When travel will fully recover is still anyone’s guess.
2021-01-01 09:00:00 Life & Arts New Art for a New Year Five artists featured in upcoming exhibitions share what they are looking forward to seeing and doing in 2021.
2021-01-01 08:36:00 World How the Brexit Deal Alters Relations Between the U.K. and European Union An at-a-glance view of what the two sides agreed
2021-01-01 08:00:00 Politics Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi to Draw on Their History in Bid to Unite Fractious Democrats The president-elect and House speaker share trust, faith and long experience legislating together
2021-01-01 07:00:00 Tech Turo CEO Says Car-Renting App Plans to Go Public in 2021 Platform turned its first profitable quarter and increased revenue 7% during the pandemic
2021-01-01 07:00:00 Masterpiece Blooming Brilliance on a Grand Scale Jay DeFeo’s monumental ‘The Rose’ weighed 2,300 pounds when completed.
2021-01-01 07:00:00 Business Latest Covid-19 Aid Package Scales Back Aid to Hospitals, Clinics New limits on relief may also inadvertently disadvantage hospitals with patients most severely affected by the pandemic
2021-01-01 05:59:00 Markets NYSE to Delist China’s Major Telecommunications Operators Move will result in China Mobile being kicked off the Big Board after more than two decades
2021-01-01 05:30:00 Markets BlackRock Scales Back Private-Equity Fund Ambitions After struggling to meet a $12 billion fundraising goal, firm has set sights on growing the fund to $4 billion to $6 billion in assets over time
2021-01-01 05:30:00 Markets These Tiny Last-Minute Tax Changes Could Be a Big Deal in 2021 From stimulus checks to early retirement-plan withdrawals, here are some late-breaking items that could alter either your 2020 return or how you approach your taxes in the year to come
2021-01-01 05:30:00 Markets Stocks Surge in Crazy Year for Financial Markets It was a banner year in everything from options bets to bitcoin
2021-01-01 05:30:00 Markets The Hot Battery Startup That Could Zap Tesla Investors are enthusiastic about QuantumScape, developer of an electric-vehicle battery that promises more power for less cost. If the company succeeds, Tesla could face new challenges.
2020-12-31 19:54:00 U.S. Minneapolis Police Release Footage They Say Shows Suspect Fired First The Wednesday night incident is the first time the city’s police have killed someone since George Floyd in May
2020-12-31 19:21:00 Opinion Georgia Voters Prepare to Decide the Senate The last time a Democrat unseated an incumbent from the upper chamber here was in 1986. Two of them are vying to do so in next Tuesday’s runoffs.
2020-12-31 19:21:00 Opinion In 2021, All the World’s a Stage We got through 2020 with pictures of normality in our heads. In a few months they’ll start to come true.
2020-12-31 19:17:00 Opinion States of Growth and Decline The latest Census population statistics show a shift from blue to red.
2020-12-31 19:16:00 Opinion Hong Kong’s Political Prisoners Jimmy Lai’s bail is revoked, and fleeing boat people get prison terms.
2020-12-31 19:15:00 Opinion A Buffalo Bills Miracle Their playoff turn causes New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to rethink his shutdown orders.
2020-12-31 19:14:00 Opinion A Warning on Georgia’s Signature Match An audit in one county finds no fraud, but it puts officials on notice.
2020-12-31 19:10:00 Opinion The White House Can’t Dodge Responsibility The Trump administration undermined the public-health response to Covid-19.
2020-12-31 19:09:00 Opinion Will Biden Reprise Obama’s Economic Policy? More stimulus, more federal ‘investments’ in favored industries and state and local governments, more regulations and higher taxes.
2020-12-31 19:08:00 Opinion The Reporting on Hunter Biden Needs to Push Further I wonder what dad and son talked about on the flight home from China.
2020-12-31 18:51:00 Politics Pence Seeks to Dismiss GOP Lawsuit Aiming to Let Him Overturn Election Justice Department called Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert’s suit a ‘walking legal contradiction’
2020-12-31 18:48:00 Politics Yellen Earned Millions in Speaking Fees After Leaving Fed, Disclosures Show Former Fed chairwoman has spoken extensively on economic policy since leaving central bank in 2018
2020-12-31 18:45:00 Politics Biden’s Pick for Secretary of State Took Up Consulting, Venture Capital During Trump Administration, Disclosures Show After years in public service, Tony Blinken sat out GOP administration in private sector; spy-chief pick Avril Haines was at Columbia University
2020-12-31 18:01:00 Politics Trump Administration Extends Ban on H-1B and Other Work Visas, Green Cards Renewal of a policy criticized by businesses leaves incoming Biden administration with another immigration dilemma
2020-12-31 18:00:00 U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts Lauds Courts’ Pandemic Response in Year-End Message Case filings have fallen in most categories beginning in March, according to report on federal judiciary
2020-12-31 16:41:00 Politics More Wine Tariffs Imposed on France and Germany by U.S. Levies stem from long-running dispute between U.S. and EU over subsidies for Airbus and Boeing
2020-12-31 16:18:00 Opinion Cuomo Needs A New Excuse The governor cited population density among the reasons for New York’s Covid struggles. How will he explain a slow vaccine rollout?
2020-12-31 16:13:00 Politics Sen. David Perdue to Quarantine Days Before Georgia Runoffs Republican incumbent to self-isolate after coming into contact with campaign member who tested positive for Covid-19
2020-12-31 15:55:00 Tech Microsoft Hacked in Russia-Linked SolarWinds Cyberattack Software giant says it saw ‘unusual activity’ on a few accounts that led it to discover the breach
2020-12-31 15:21:00 World Dick Thornburgh, Former Pennsylvania Governor and U.S. Attorney General, Dies at 88 He built his reputation as a crime-busting federal prosecutor in Pittsburgh and as a moderate Republican governor
2020-12-31 14:50:00 Business Hospitals Say They Will Publish Previously Secret Prices Largest U.S. hospital chains say they will comply with new rules to make public confidentially negotiated prices with health insurers
2020-12-31 13:56:00 Life & Arts A New Rule for Cars: Don’t Look So Standard! Fuel and safety mandates have made them all look the same. Expect California to step in again.
2020-12-31 12:19:00 World Covid-19 Vaccine Gets Provisional Approval From China Drug Regulator State-owned Sinopharm has started mass production of the vaccine
2020-12-31 12:13:00 World New Covid-19 Strain Found in China Highly contagious variant was detected in woman who had flown from the U.K., where new strain first was found
2020-12-31 12:00:00 Risk & Compliance Journal FBI Increasingly Probes for Corruption Overseas Since 2015, the FBI has expanded its international corruption unit with three new squads across the country
2020-12-31 11:56:00 Life & Arts Novelist Charles Yu Worries America Is Getting Less Inclusive The author of the National Book Award-winning ‘Interior Chinatown’ wittily explores the complexities of immigration and the trajectory of today’s Asian-Americans
2020-12-31 11:49:00 Pro VC Industry News Fintech Startups Rush to Get Stimulus Payments Out Banking apps Current and Chime credited customer accounts right away, ahead of some larger banking institutions
2020-12-31 11:47:00 Books Here She Comes Again: Reading Dolly Parton A radiant entertainer finally gets her due as a composer and lyricist—and champion of resilience amid troubles.
2020-12-31 11:42:00 Books Louis Kahn: Listen to the Bricks New books on the architect’s life and career put the personal and the professional into a revealing dialogue.
2020-12-31 11:27:00 Books Mysteries: Thomas Perry’s ‘Eddie’s Boy’ Stalked by killers, a onetime hitman is forced out of retirement.
2020-12-31 11:24:00 Books ‘Studying With Miss Bishop’ Review: Learning His Lines A memoir of encounters with literary greats, and the strange labor of the writer’s craft.
2020-12-31 10:59:00 Books Fiction: Deception Defined A word-besotted tale of dictionary-makers, a satire by André Gide and a soul-baring novel about a family’s choice.
2020-12-31 10:55:00 Markets Pandemic Chips at Beauty Retail’s Bricks-and-Mortar Stronghold Makeup sellers like Sephora and Ulta must walk a fine line between stores and e-commerce
2020-12-31 10:53:00 Markets After Covid, Plane Makers Are Even More Dependent on China The country is a rare bright spot for Boeing and Airbus, but its aerospace industry is quickly becoming a geopolitical battleground
2020-12-31 10:52:00 Books Five Best: Writings by Artists Selected by Celia Paul, author of the memoir ’Self-Portrait.’
2020-12-31 10:46:00 Books Children’s Books: Free Range The joy of exploring the world on and off the page animates a school story with a hint of Dickensian thrill.
2020-12-31 10:41:00 Books ‘Anni and Josef Albers’ Review: Dynamic Balance From the Bauhaus to Black Mountain, the Albers inspired each other—and a generation of artists.
2020-12-31 10:00:00 Experience Report Video Chatting Became Popular in 2020, and Improved Along the Way Software innovations made the medium more lively and easier to use as the pandemic pressed on
2020-12-31 10:00:00 World Wall Street Executive Reinvented Himself as Broadway Producer Roger Berlind switched careers after a personal tragedy and won 25 Tony Awards; he has died at age 90
2020-12-31 09:58:00 Life & Arts For New Year’s Resolutions, Never Think You’re Too Old to Become a Beginner In 2021, take on the challenge of learning a new skill or hobby as an adult. It can bring big cognitive and emotional benefits.
2020-12-31 09:54:00 Markets China’s ‘Blind Box’ Bubble A toy trend in China sparked a stock-price frenzy, until Beijing stepped in
2020-12-31 09:34:00 Asia North Korea Says It Wants Good U.S. Ties in Rare Meeting With Western Lawmaker Kim Jong Un’s regime has cut contact with much of outside world this year, but reached out to a European Parliament committee in days before U.S. election
2020-12-31 08:48:00 Economy U.S. Unemployment Claims Fell Modestly Last Week Initial claims for benefits slipped to 787,000 in week clouded with uncertainty around impending changes to payments
2020-12-31 08:40:00 Markets U.S. Stock Futures Waver in Final Trading Day of 2020 Nasdaq Composite Index is on track for its best annual performance since 2009, highlighting the rally in stocks this year
2020-12-31 08:24:00 Deals Alden Global Seeks to Buy Tribune Publishing Hedge fund, which owns 32% of the Chicago Tribune publisher, has expressed interest in acquiring the shares it doesn’t own already for $14.25 each
2020-12-31 08:00:00 Markets How to Better Keep Track of Small Expenses and Fees in New Year Neglecting day-to-day financial health is often why people struggle to achieve their savings goals—financial self-checkup can help
2020-12-31 07:59:00 Markets Enphase Energy, Tiffany, Celsius: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today The Nasdaq Composite is on track to end its best year since 2009, underscoring the rally in U.S. stocks this year
2020-12-31 07:50:00 Life & Arts Why Retailers Are Pushing ‘Baby’ Wines They’re not young, necessarily. But once you get past the marketing, there are values to be found.
2020-12-31 07:30:00 CIO Journal For CIOs, There’s No Place Like Home (Office) CIOs describe their home office setup: Pets, antiques, toys and clear access to coffee
2020-12-31 07:27:00 World The U.K. Is Finally Cutting Ties With the EU. Here’s What Changes. Brexit is expected to have big and lasting effects on the British economy
2020-12-31 07:05:00 Life & Arts Becky Hammon Coaches in the NBA and Makes History When San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich was ejected on Wednesday, his assistant took over and became the first woman to coach a U.S. men’s pro team.
2020-12-31 07:00:00 Business It Was a Fall Season to Forget for Broadcast TV Networks CBS, Fox, NBC and ABC all experienced steep rating drops as pandemic delayed production of new shows
2020-12-31 06:15:00 Life & Arts Shrimp and Cauliflower Sauté With Rosemary-Caper Butter A scrumptious rosemary-caper butter cloaks the shrimp and the cauliflower it sautés with. You’ll want to keep some on hand to bring a hit of flavor and richness to all sorts of dishes.
2020-12-31 06:09:00 Life & Arts This Quick Shrimp Recipe Comes With a Delicious Bonus A scrumptious rosemary-caper butter cloaks the shrimp and the cauliflower it sautés with. You’ll want to keep some on hand to bring a hit of flavor and richness to all sorts of dishes.
2020-12-31 06:00:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Big Pharma Deal Spree, Record IPO Surge, Coronavirus Cabin Fever Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2020-12-31 05:58:00 World Hong Kong Media Mogul Jimmy Lai Sent Back to Jail Case against outspoken democracy advocate is being closely watched by Beijing
2020-12-31 05:30:00 Markets Lessons From a Crazy Year in Financial Markets A historic downturn and dizzying comeback show markets still have the capacity to surprise us all
2020-12-31 05:30:00 Business Cruise Ships Can’t Sail Away From Covid Small luxury operators have tried strict testing requirements and capacity limits, but onboard outbreaks persist
2020-12-31 05:30:00 Markets Gold Investors See Challenges Ahead After Glittery 2020 Price gains could moderate if coronavirus vaccines help drive a strong economic recovery in new year
2020-12-31 05:10:00 Markets HKEX’s New Big Boss Will Face Hong Kong’s Uncertain Future Charles Li’s successor will inherit one of the world’s largest stock exchanges. But Beijing’s tightening control poses new challenges.
2020-12-31 03:52:00 World Navalny Faces Fraud Charges if He Returns to Russia After Poisoning Opposition politician views new allegations as an attempt to silence him after August’s failed assassination attempt
2020-12-31 03:38:00 Markets Chinese Markets Shined This Year, Signal a Repeat in 2021 Nation to benefit from post-pandemic rebound as well as from funds sloshing around the world’s financial system and low interest rates
2020-12-30 22:30:00 U.S. Samuel Little, Called Most Prolific Serial Killer in U.S. History, Dies at 80 Convict was serving a life sentence in California for killings attributed to him
2020-12-30 22:02:00 Economy China Finishes Off a Wild Year With More Manufacturing Growth The economy also showed strength outside its factories
2020-12-30 18:56:00 Politics Biden Transition’s Pentagon Briefings Resume Amid Dispute Transition aides said the Defense Department and Office of Management and Budget continued to rebuff requests for information
2020-12-30 18:54:00 Politics Push for Bigger Stimulus Checks Is Running Out of Time As Senate’s attention shifts to defense-bill vote, Democrats reject McConnell plan to package payments with online-rules overhaul, vote-fraud panel
2020-12-30 18:41:00 Opinion Trump’s Embarrassing Electoral College Hustle It is doomed to fail but would still set a destructive precedent.
2020-12-30 18:39:00 Opinion Trump’s School-Choice Relief The President improves access to vouchers for schools that are open.
2020-12-30 18:37:00 Opinion $2,000 Checks for the Affluent Schumer and Trump want to write checks to the non-needy.
2020-12-30 18:35:00 Opinion Surprise! A Health Lobby Cage Match Insurers and providers duke it out, and politicians take credit.
2020-12-30 18:33:00 U.S. Ticketmaster to Pay $10 Million Fine to Resolve Criminal Charges Ticketing giant says former employees were responsible for breach, which aimed to undermine competitor
2020-12-30 18:15:00 Opinion How I Became a ‘Far-Right Radical’ Academics mislabeled me as one—as they did Bret Weinstein, Joe Rogan, Sam Harris and others.
2020-12-30 18:10:00 Opinion Could Garry Moore Have Made 2020 Wonderful? The TV host even managed to find something terrific about 1929. This year might have challenged him.
2020-12-30 18:09:00 Opinion Building Bridges to Help the Economy Through Covid The Covid relief bill is a down payment on what Joe Biden can do to help avoid a recession.
2020-12-30 18:04:00 Opinion 2020 Hindsight and a Look Ahead The Chiefs win again, and at least two Biden cabinet nominees don’t get confirmed.
2020-12-30 18:02:00 Opinion The U.S. General Who Steered China Right Driving on the left had the mark of British imperialism—and it was bad for Detroit.
2020-12-30 18:00:00 Books ‘Wintering’ Review: Rest, Retreat and Renewal We have seasons when the leaves fall from us, revealing our bare bones. There is grace in letting go, and in giving ourselves time to repair.
2020-12-30 17:37:00 Markets SoftBank to Get Majority Stake in Katerra With $200 Million Bailout New funding, which comes on top of $2 billion already invested, allows construction startup to avoid bankruptcy
2020-12-30 17:15:00 Opinion Legion of Gloom Biden and friends are still trying to justify the coming expansion of government.
2020-12-30 17:06:00 U.S. New York City Restaurants Limp Their Way Out of 2020 Week between Christmas and New Year’s is usually the best for eateries; ‘the city should buzzing with lots of tourists’
2020-12-30 16:18:00 Politics GOP Senator Says He Will Force Votes on Biden’s Win Joint session of Congress to meet next week to certify electoral votes
2020-12-30 16:10:00 Business Amazon Agrees to Buy Podcast Startup Wondery Deal aims to accelerate growth of e-commerce giant’s podcast offerings
2020-12-30 16:01:00 Opinion Why Covid Won’t Kill Movie Theaters Theaters have faced a rough year with the coronavirus pandemic, but the financial upsides they offer filmmakers should help secure their future.
2020-12-30 15:47:00 Markets LVMH and Tiffany to Have Short Honeymoon Tiffany shareholders voted in favor of new terms to the $16 billion union; French luxury giant won’t delay in sprucing up its latest purchase
2020-12-30 15:34:00 Opinion Everybody Wants Credit for the Covid Vaccine The game changer was Operation Warp Speed. Or was it basic research?
2020-12-30 15:33:00 Opinion Christmas Messages From the Editorial Page It is important to understand the importance of freedom and individual responsibility in delivering us from darkness and oppression.
2020-12-30 15:32:00 Opinion ‘How’s Your Drink?’ Never Been More Needed, Cheers Eric Felten is an essential worker in these dry times.
2020-12-30 15:12:00 Opinion ‘Haunting Julia’ Review: More Than a Ghost Story Alan Ayckbourn takes on the trio of roles in his 1994 work about a musical prodigy who died of an overdose in Stephen Joseph Theatre’s radio-play version.
2020-12-30 15:07:00 Film Review ‘Herself’ Review: Small Budget, Large Spirit A desperate mother of two mixes pragmatism with optimism in Phyllida Lloyd’s stirring feature.
2020-12-30 15:02:00 Television Review ‘Elizabeth Is Missing’ Review: Gone but Not Forgotten A ‘Masterpiece’ mystery stars Glenda Jackson as an elderly woman with dementia who struggles to convince those around her about the seriousness of a friend’s disappearance.
2020-12-30 15:00:00 Screen Time What to Watch on New Year’s Eve: the Ball Drop and ‘Death to 2020’ How to kick off 2021, or ignore the New Year entirely
2020-12-30 14:59:00 Real Estate The Top Interior-Design Trends for 2021 We asked 200 design pros which trends feel fresh vs. finished. They forecast a hunger for hushed, murky rooms and hardware-less cupboards—and a quick fade for farmhouse white and open kitchen shelving.
2020-12-30 14:54:00 World Coronavirus Variant in South Africa Sparks Fear of Faster Spread, Possible Reinfection Discovery of new variant coincided with a surge in South African Covid-19 cases past the one million mark
2020-12-30 14:31:00 Disgruntled Creditor Asked to Make Rival Bid for Speedcast A bankruptcy judge is giving Black Diamond Capital Management a chance to make an offer to buy the Australian company out of chapter 11
2020-12-30 13:58:00 Politics Mayorkas’s Experience With Homeland Security Issues Fuels Backers and Critics Alike Biden’s DHS pick led virus responses and implemented DACA; awarding of green cards to wealthy, politically connected investors will likely draw scrutiny
2020-12-30 13:45:00 World Howard J. Rubenstein, Power Broker and Master of Public Relations, Dies at 88 New York politicians and business leaders relied on him for decades to make connections and solve problems
2020-12-30 13:00:00 Life & Arts English Soccer Scrambles to Reschedule After avoiding postponements through the summer and fall, the Premier League has now lost two games in two days
2020-12-30 12:27:00 World Yemen Airport Attack Kills 22 as New Saudi-Backed Government Arrives Explosions at Aden airport present fresh challenge for war-wracked country
2020-12-30 12:11:00 Life & Arts Do Dogs Really Make Us Happier? New research shows that the psychological benefits of dog ownership are real —and especially valuable during the pandemic.
2020-12-30 12:02:00 Opinion The Tyranny of Diversity Its monomaniacal pursuit undermines other values—true equality among them.
2020-12-30 12:02:00 U.S. Louisiana GOP Congressman-Elect Luke Letlow Dies of Covid-19 Letlow was set to be sworn in with new freshmen in Congress on Sunday
2020-12-30 12:00:00 Opinion Cold War With China Is Avoidable Today’s challenge is different. Beijing has economic power Moscow could only dream of.
2020-12-30 11:54:00 Life & Arts 50/50 Mushroom-Beef Burgers For those not ready for a fully plant-based diet, these tweaks on classic comfort foods will strike a wholesome balance between meat and veg
2020-12-30 11:46:00 Life & Arts Tofu-Meatloaf Sheet-Pan Dinner For those not ready for a fully plant-based diet, these tweaks on classic comfort foods will strike a wholesome balance between meat and veg
2020-12-30 11:17:00 World U.K. Lawmakers Approve Brexit Trade Deal, Cementing EU Exit Agreement is signed by EU leaders in Brussels before taking effect on Jan. 1
2020-12-30 11:17:00 Politics Biden, Trump to Campaign in Georgia Senate Runoffs The president-elect and President Trump will hold competing rallies in the state
2020-12-30 11:06:00 Life & Arts Don’t Want to Go (Entirely) Meatless? Try These Recipes For those not ready for a fully plant-based diet, these tweaks on classic comfort foods will strike a wholesome balance between meat and veg
2020-12-30 10:56:00 Experience Report Five Ways Employee Experience Changed in 2020 Companies added new benefits and revamped existing programs to address challenges of remote work
2020-12-30 10:19:00 Economy Yes, It Is Possible to Have Too Much Stimulus Boosting stimulus checks to $2,000 would add a lot to the debt with little of that benefiting the unemployed
2020-12-30 10:15:00 WSJ. Magazine Dry January Will Be Wetter Than Ever If December’s open tabs were canceled, then so is the most abstemious month of the year
2020-12-30 10:11:00 Business China Fines Alibaba, JD.com, Vipshop Over Pricing Complaints The fines, though nominal, continue China’s campaign to rein in the powerful tech sector
2020-12-30 10:01:00 Markets China Heads Into 2021 With Wind at Its Back Chinese economic strength seems likely to continue in 2021 as global trade keeps recovering and consumers regain confidence
2020-12-30 10:00:00 Markets Covid-19 Economy Boosts ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Installment Services Increased use of Affirm, Afterpay and Klarna coincides with drop in credit-card balances
2020-12-30 09:33:00 Business Forget the Streaming Wars—Pandemic-Stricken 2020 Lifted Netflix and Others From Hulu to Disney+, largest streaming services are expected to end the year with 50% more U.S. subscribers
2020-12-30 09:30:00 CFO Journal Finance Executives Look to Advance Libor Transition in 2021 The interest-rate benchmark is being phased out, forcing companies to update contracts and adjust funding projections
2020-12-30 08:59:00 World China Blocks U.S. Government’s $332 Million Sale of Hong Kong Luxury Apartments Transaction can’t be completed without written consent of Chinese government, buyer says it has been told by authorities
2020-12-30 08:57:00 Life & Arts Why Radicchio Is the Ingredient We Need Right Now This chicory comes in striking hues, has a life-affirming bite and holds up valiantly in the fridge. Bust your cooking rut with three simple, delicious ways to prepare it: on a pizza, a sheet pan or a grill.
2020-12-30 08:55:00 Markets U.S. Stock Futures Tick Higher S&P 500 futures point to muted gains for the benchmark index, which closed Tuesday at its second-highest level in history
2020-12-30 08:37:00 World EU, China Agree on Terms of Investment Pact Despite U.S. Wariness Deal opens up Chinese markets for financial services, telecommunications, electric vehicles and health for EU companies
2020-12-30 08:16:00 World U.K. Delays Second Covid-19 Vaccine Dose as Europe Ponders How to Speed Up Immunization Countries battling record coronavirus surges consider one-dose vaccination
2020-12-30 08:14:00 Business Uber, Gig Companies Seek Labor Deals to Avoid Workers Becoming Employees Food-delivery platforms in Europe are offering couriers extra benefits in the hope of averting costly legislation on employment rights
2020-12-30 08:00:00 World Global Digital-Tax Detente Ends, as U.S. and France Exchange Blows Dispute centers on cross-border revenue at Google, Facebook, Amazon and other tech firms
2020-12-30 08:00:00 Markets New Small-Business Stimulus Plan Fails to Address Fraud Risks Almost 1,500 companies that earlier got Paycheck Protection Program loans had faced allegations of violating regulations or criminal behavior
2020-12-30 08:00:00 Markets Moderna, Emergent BioSolutions, Osmotica: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today S&P 500 futures edge higher, pointing to muted gains for the benchmark index a day after it closed at its second-highest level in history
2020-12-30 07:35:00 U.S. Police Received Warning About Nashville Bombing Suspect Anthony Warner in 2019 Woman said boyfriend was building bombs in RV, but no evidence of crime found, police say
2020-12-30 07:30:00 CIO Journal Shift Gears, Accelerate: CIOs Reordered IT Priorities in 2020 Chief information officers also raced to set boundaries to prevent team burnout
2020-12-30 07:18:00 World Jonathan Pollard, Convicted Spy in U.S., Arrives in Israel Pollard and his wife are greeted at the tarmac by Prime Minister Netanyahu
2020-12-30 07:03:00 Markets Big Pharma Heads Toward a Deals Spree Regulatory outlook appears promising, and Covid-19 vaccines could give the industry political capital
2020-12-30 07:00:00 World Covid-19 Was Consuming India, Until Nearly Everyone Started Wearing Masks One of the world’s most boisterous and diverse democracies has embraced a proven pandemic strategy with little debate
2020-12-30 07:00:00 Markets New Army of Individual Investors Flexes Its Muscle More than 10 million new brokerage accounts were opened in 2020 as individuals piled in to bet on stocks
2020-12-30 06:40:00 World Covid-19 Vaccine Made by AstraZeneca, Oxford Is Authorized by U.K. Green light for emergency use comes as Britain grapples with a surge in cases and a new variant
2020-12-30 06:33:00 Markets Intel Gets Some Needed Cover Activist call to evaluate strategic options could help chip maker make some painful choices
2020-12-30 06:03:00 Markets King Dollar Is Abdicating and That’s OK The Fed’s stance means the greenback’s weakness is likely to continue, but that isn’t a disaster for investors who position themselves correctly
2020-12-30 06:02:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Bitcoin Gains Hold, Tech Pay Rates Expand, Hypnosis Gains Acceptance Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2020-12-30 06:00:00 Logistics Report Radial Looks to Build on a Year of Frantic Logistics Growth In a Q&A, new CEO Ilias Simpson says more technology, geographic expansion are in the fulfillment specialist’s plans for 2021
2020-12-30 06:00:00 CMO Today As 2020 Limps to an End, Ad Executives Look Warily to 2021 Among the trends: the pivot to digital continues to favor big platforms; companies will have to meet diversity goals; people are burned-out, but could it turn into the Roaring 2020s?
2020-12-30 05:49:00 World Hong Kong Activists Sentenced to Prison in China for Attempt to Flee by Speedboat Group has been held on the mainland since August after being detained on boat headed to Taiwan
2020-12-30 05:30:00 Economy Fed’s Rate-Setting Panel Gets New Members Amid Uncertain Outlook Annual rotation of committee members means Atlanta, Chicago, Richmond and San Francisco Fed bank chiefs gain voting rights
2020-12-30 05:30:00 Business Hyundai, Kia Pick Up Speed in 2020 With New SUVs Korean auto group, whose brands tend to thrive in tough times, expanded its U.S. market share
2020-12-30 05:30:00 Markets Banks Pile Into Government Debt, Setting Up ‘Doom Loop’ Sequel in Europe In Italy over 11% of the banks’ assets are in government debt, a record
2020-12-30 04:12:00 Markets China’s Top Credit Rater Barred From New Business for Three Months Chengxin had an AAA rating on state-owned coal miner Yongcheng when it defaulted
2020-12-30 03:43:00 World Argentina Makes Abortion Legal in Landmark Vote Pope Francis fought against a bill that will now give momentum to pro-abortion movements across Latin America
2020-12-29 22:26:00 Politics Trump Campaign Asks Supreme Court to Overturn Biden’s Wisconsin Win Unless court expedites case, the appeal likely will be moot before it comes up for consideration by the justices
2020-12-29 21:26:00 U.S. Louisville Moves to Fire Two Officers Connected to Breonna Taylor Shooting Joshua Jaynes, who wrote search warrant, and Myles Cosgrove, who fired weapon at the scene, received pre-termination notices
2020-12-29 21:04:00 U.S. Justice Department Says Daniel Pearl’s Accused Killer Could Be Tried in U.S. If Pakistanis fail to keep suspect imprisoned, U.S. stands ready, acting attorney general says
2020-12-29 19:28:00 Business Moderna to Offer Its Covid-19 Vaccine to Workers, Contractors and Board Company says move will provide additional layer of protection to workers making and delivering vaccine
2020-12-29 18:49:00 Opinion Scapegoating Walmart The feds seek billions in penalties for filling valid opioid prescriptions.
2020-12-29 18:44:00 Opinion China Jails a Covid Reporter ‘Why can’t I show the truth?’ Zhang Zhan dared to ask.
2020-12-29 18:39:00 Opinion McConnell at the Bridge The Senate leader tries to minimize the harm from a vengeful Trump.
2020-12-29 18:38:00 U.S. Two Officers in Tamir Rice’s Fatal Shooting Won’t Face Federal Charges Action closes probe into case that helped spark conversation on police use of force against Black Americans
2020-12-29 18:35:00 Opinion A Hasty Withdrawal From Somalia Trump’s late pullout appears to put politics over antiterror strategy.
2020-12-29 18:32:00 Opinion College in the Time of Covid Students reflect on their experience of the pandemic as 2020 comes to a close.
2020-12-29 18:30:00 Politics Some Americans to Receive $600 Stimulus Payments Tonight, Mnuchin Says Treasury secretary says paper checks will begin to be sent Wednesday; some direct deposits will take longer
2020-12-29 18:22:00 Opinion The Policy Lessons of the ‘Trump Economy’ Presidents are often at the mercy of unpredictable factors like the business cycle—and pandemics.
2020-12-29 18:21:00 Opinion America Is Willing to Pay for Change Covid-19 worsened a shortage of coins. Capitalism is solving the problem.
2020-12-29 18:20:00 Opinion The Slow Birth of Covid Realism Can we now admit that herd immunity and vaccines will work in tandem?
2020-12-29 18:20:00 Opinion Revolution Consumes New York’s Elite Dalton School Teachers of $54,000 Zoom classes demand a lowering of standards and hiring of a dozen diversity staffers.
2020-12-29 18:17:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: The Media’s Addiction ‘Praise from anti-Trump celebrities on Twitter has become like a “narcotic” for some.’
2020-12-29 18:17:00 Books ‘The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries’ Review: The Branching Tree of Life Biological classification conforms perfectly with the patterns of evolutionary relationships evidenced by anatomy, physiology and genetics.
2020-12-29 18:16:00 Opinion Who Gets to Vote in Georgia? An argument over postal records.
2020-12-29 17:57:00 Politics What to Know About Unemployment Benefits in Covid-19 Aid Package Two special pandemic-related programs are extended through March 14, and recipients of regular state benefits get an extra $300
2020-12-29 17:11:00 Politics Appellate Court Rules Minority Party in House Can Demand Records Judicial decision, sought by Democrats in 2017, could boost GOP oversight of Biden administration
2020-12-29 17:08:00 Television Review ‘The Watch’ Review: Making Fantasy Fun This adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels is a comic journey into dystopian ideas.
2020-12-29 17:04:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Defense Bill Proposes to Expand SEC’s Authority in Seeking Disgorgement The annual defense policy bill, if passed, would give the SEC the power to recover ill-gotten gains over a longer period
2020-12-29 16:49:00 Opinion Hyperpop’s Joyful Too-Muchness The genre, which takes familiar sounds from electronic pop, rap and dance and intensifies them through compression, distortion and exaggeration, broke into the mainstream this year thanks to figures like 100 Gecs and A.G. Cook.
2020-12-29 16:48:00 Markets Kushner Cos. Plans to Raise $100 Million by Selling Bonds in Israel Company plan is likely to rekindle criticism of potential conflicts of interest between Jared Kushner’s role in White House and his family’s business
2020-12-29 16:22:00 Politics McConnell Blocks Vote on Bigger Stimulus Checks, Says Senate Will Consider Later Majority leader says lawmakers will begin process to examine larger payouts, Section 230 online rules, vote fraud concerns
2020-12-29 15:50:00 Life & Arts New U.S. Dietary Guidelines Reject Recommendation to Cut Sugar, Alcohol Intake Limit A scientific advisory committee had advised lower limits on sugar and alcohol, citing health risks
2020-12-29 15:23:00 Opinion Ebenezer Scrooge Can’t Be Made Into a Hero Capitalism errs in thinking that putting sin to good use will transform it into virtue.
2020-12-29 15:21:00 Life & Arts How Clogs Clomped Back Into Style (Seriously) Chunky clogs have become improbably trendy, with brands like Chanel, Hermès and Louis Vuitton offering high-fashion takes. Here, the footwear’s surprising history, from Dutch workers’ shoes to the Paris runways.
2020-12-29 15:21:00 Opinion The Vaccine Is Here. Can We End Lockdowns? Trust has been placed in experts who have focused almost exclusively on medical imperatives.
2020-12-29 15:19:00 Opinion Can We Address Race, IQ and Intellectual Cowardice? Jason Riley is right to highlight the work of James Flynn.
2020-12-29 15:11:00 Business ‘There Was a Piece Missing—We Were All White’: One Bank Targets Racial Inequity Companies across the U.S. are pledging to hire and promote more women and people of color, in many cases saying they want to make their workplaces reflect their customers. Boston-based Eastern Bank has made sustained efforts yet still says ‘we have a long way to go.’
2020-12-29 14:59:00 Politics Health-Costs Transparency Rule for Hospitals Upheld on Appeal Federal appeals court turns back suit from hospital group arguing providers couldn’t legally be compelled to disclose rates negotiated in secret with insurers
2020-12-29 14:53:00 Markets Mild Winter Weather Hammers Natural Gas in December Recent forecasts show warmer temperatures spreading across the U.S. in the next few weeks, driving an unwind of bullish bets
2020-12-29 14:41:00 Opinion A Start at Bridging the Partisan Gulf Fringes aside, the right and left can compromise based on shared principles.
2020-12-29 14:40:00 Opinion The Oil Industry Is Stuck in Virus Alley Prices won’t break out of the $40 to $50 range until consumption gets back to normal sometime next year.
2020-12-29 14:24:00 Tech Third Point Calls on Intel to Explore Strategic Alternatives Activist hedge fund says it has taken significant stake in Intel, calls for changes to preserve U.S. edge in semiconductor industry
2020-12-29 14:22:00 Tech Facial-Recognition Tools in Spotlight in New Jersey False-Arrest Case Black man police detained for more than a week sues authorities after use of technology that some cities have banned over racial bias concerns
2020-12-29 13:59:00 Tech Inside the Google-Facebook Ad Deal at the Heart of a Price-Fixing Lawsuit Lawmakers have called for an investigation into the tech giants’ contract, dubbed ‘Jedi Blue,’ which allegedly allowed for auction rigging
2020-12-29 13:24:00 Business Boeing’s 737 MAX Returns to U.S. Commercial Service With American Airlines Flight Flight from Miami to New York is aircraft’s first in U.S. since being grounded nearly two years ago following deadly crashes
2020-12-29 13:08:00 Life & Arts 3 Ways to Hibernate in Vermont During Covid Vermont is a tough place to visit this winter, but if you don’t want to socialize, here’s where to quarantine cozily
2020-12-29 12:29:00 World EU Member States Approve Trade Deal With U.K. Agreement sets out post-Brexit trade, security and economic ties
2020-12-29 12:27:00 Markets Fed, Treasury Provide One-Week Reprieve for ‘Main Street’ Program After Demand Surges Treasury Department had earlier said program would close Dec. 31, triggering last-minute lending crush
2020-12-29 11:59:00 Asia China Eyes Shrinking Jack Ma’s Business Empire The state could take a bigger stake in the billionaire’s businesses as regulators beef up oversight of the powerful tech sector
2020-12-29 10:55:00 World German Town Finds a Blueprint for Lowering Covid-19 Deaths From free tests to the shielding of care homes, Tübingen has pioneered tools later deployed elsewhere to minimize pandemic casualties
2020-12-29 10:16:00 World New Cases Challenge China’s Targeted Covid-19 Strategy Latest infection clusters come as country prepares for explosion of travel around Lunar New Year holiday
2020-12-29 10:05:00 Business Politico to Acquire Energy Trade Publication E&E News Purchase comes as Politico looks to expand its overall professional news business
2020-12-29 10:00:00 U.S. Webcam Feeds of New York City Draw Viewers Trapped in Lockdown Folks around the world who can’t board a plane use cams to ‘travel’ to the city
2020-12-29 10:00:00 Business Superhero Film Franchise Creators Nervous of World Without Big-Screen Debuts ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ producer Charles Roven says theatrical model is the lifeblood of franchise films
2020-12-29 09:54:00 Life & Arts All I Want for Sports in 2021? You! Please forgive the Mariah Carey homage. But the return of games underlines the madness still absent from the experience.
2020-12-29 09:01:00 Economy U.S. Home-Price Growth Accelerated in October The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index rose 8.4% as sales hit a 14-year high
2020-12-29 08:38:00 Markets Stock Futures Point to Extension of Record-Setting Rally S&P 500 appears poised to climb to a new all-time high, building on its over 15% advance so far this year
2020-12-29 08:01:00 Markets Apple, Quanterix, Arcturus: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today U.S. stock futures point to an extension in markets’ rally a day after the major indexes hit new highs
2020-12-29 08:00:00 Tech Tech Choices Dictate Teen Friendships During Pandemic The use of Snapchat, Instagram or TikTok can fray or strengthen ties, depending on whether pals communicate the same way
2020-12-29 08:00:00 Real Estate London Sphere Project, Mired in Red Tape, Might Get Post-Pandemic Push Proposed venue will likely face less competition, could benefit from traffic changes brought by increased working from home
2020-12-29 08:00:00 Politics Georgia Military Families Who Backed Biden Could Help Determine Senate Control Trump’s veto of defense authorization bill becomes a focus in Senate runoffs
2020-12-29 08:00:00 Shipping Matters Shipping Faces New Turmoil in European Emissions Trading Plan The EU wants to include ships in its carbon trading plan, but the move divides the industry and risks derailing global cooperation on antipollution efforts
2020-12-29 07:30:00 CIO Journal CIOs Question a Full Return to the Office Remote work disrupted the traditional office in 2020
2020-12-29 07:30:00 CIO Journal Post-Pandemic, Office Life May Never Be the Same, CIOs Say The conventional office and its desktop workspaces will become ‘pre-Covid artifacts,’ one CIO says
2020-12-29 07:12:00 World Japan Group to Lend Vietnam $1.8 Billion for Coal-Fired Power Tokyo bucks backlash from investors and its own environment minister, citing project’s contribution to economic development
2020-12-29 07:00:00 Economy Pandemic Reshapes U.S. Employment, Speeding Changes Across Industries Economy has recouped 12 million of 22 million jobs lost in 2020, with uneven setbacks and recoveries in various sectors likely to outlast health crisis
2020-12-29 07:00:00 Markets Return to Almost Normal May Be Closer Than You Think U.S. doesn’t need to reach full herd immunity before public spaces can begin phased reopenings
2020-12-29 07:00:00 Real Estate Blumberg Joins Rush of Property Firms Raising Funds for Distressed Deals Company to raise $1 billion next year to buy high-quality office buildings; ‘It will be the best buying opportunity since 2010’
2020-12-29 06:33:00 Markets Slack Deal Shows Big Tech’s Handcuffs Competing bids to Salesforce’s offer didn’t emerge, even after news of firms’ merger talks surfaced
2020-12-29 06:02:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Margin Debt Rises, Consumer Brand Expansion Plans, Eating the Christmas Tree Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2020-12-29 06:00:00 Markets Green Energy Will Need More Storage Space As the rollout of wind and solar picks up speed, solutions to bridge their intermittency are likely to take off too
2020-12-29 05:30:00 Markets Bitcoin Looks to Gain Traction in Payments PayPal gives the digital currency a green light, but high fees, volatility still present obstacles
2020-12-29 05:30:00 Real Estate Covid-19 Vaccine Outlook Prompts Businesses to Dust Off Return-to-Office Plans Widespread return isn’t likely until late spring or early summer of 2021
2020-12-29 05:30:00 Tech These Tech Companies Are Paying Workers the Same Rates Across U.S. A handful of startups and larger firms are experimenting with nationally competitive, nonlocalized pay. Is the extra cost worth the added employee goodwill?
2020-12-29 05:30:00 Markets How the 2020 QE Boom Might Trip Up Central Bankers A burst of central bank bond-buying has revived a debate about quantitative easing’s potential fiscal cost
2020-12-28 21:25:00 U.S. FAA Issues Long-Anticipated Rules for Commercial Drones Regulations are expected to accelerate the rollout of package delivery, other uses
2020-12-28 18:38:00 Markets SAP Unit Qualtrics Heads for IPO German business software giant SAP paid around $8 billion for the startup two years ago, in one of the biggest acquisitions ever
2020-12-28 18:26:00 Opinion How Tariffs Deepened the D.C. Swamp Maybe the GOP will stand up on trade once Joe Biden is picking winners.
2020-12-28 18:24:00 Opinion Trump Gives Schumer an Assist The President writes a $2,000 check to make Democrats the majority.
2020-12-28 18:18:00 U.S. New York Lawmakers Expected to Pass Four-Month Eviction Moratorium Bill bans evictions statewide for 60 days, and then tenants unable to pay because of the pandemic can file to prevent or suspend proceedings
2020-12-28 18:16:00 Opinion Japan’s Biden Jitters From Tokyo, a pointed Taiwan question for the President-elect.
2020-12-28 18:07:00 Politics Second Stimulus Checks: When Will the Covid-19 Money Be Delivered? President Trump signed into law another round of direct payments to households as part of a coronavirus aid package
2020-12-28 18:00:00 Opinion Honesty Is the Best Policy in Selling Vaccines Paternalism is the wrong approach. Patients need full information about the risks and benefits.
2020-12-28 17:59:00 Opinion If You Must Talk About Race, Be Gracious Racism is no longer systemic in the United States. Trust me.
2020-12-28 17:57:00 U.S. New York to Penalize Health-Care Providers $1 Million for Covid-19 Vaccine Fraud ParCare is being investigated for improperly obtaining and distributing vaccine doses
2020-12-28 17:56:00 Opinion Beijing’s Bigger Honey Trap Eric Swalwell and Hunter Biden are only the tip of the Chinese influence iceberg.
2020-12-28 17:55:00 Books ‘Finding My Father’ Review: The Lies He Lived By She grew up rapt by her father’s charming tales of family life in the old country. The reality, she later learned, was darker than he admitted.
2020-12-28 17:54:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: Books ‘Books by the Foot had to adapt to a downturn in office- and hotel-decor business—and an uptick in home-office Zoom backdrops for the talking-head class.’
2020-12-28 17:54:00 Opinion What’s Worse Than 2020 in America? India struggled as it faced down Covid-19, a collapsing economy, and border clashes.
2020-12-28 17:33:00 CIO Journal Nashville Bombing Exposes Weak Point for Business Communications The attack underscores the need for companies to diversify and secure their networks
2020-12-28 17:23:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Treasury Warns Banks of Covid-19 Vaccine Fraud The department’s enforcement unit alerted financial institutions to possible ransomware attacks targeting vaccine distribution networks
2020-12-28 17:17:00 Opinion Can Bernie Sanders Find Happiness? The Vermont socialist still isn’t satisfied with the Biden cabinet.
2020-12-28 17:03:00 Opinion The Sound of the ’90s Is Alive The alt rock of an earlier decade is influencing artists like Post Malone, Phoebe Bridgers, Taylor Swift and more—many of whom were too young to experience bands like Nirvana and the Goo Goo Dolls firsthand.
2020-12-28 16:58:00 Politics House Set to Vote on $2,000 Checks and Vetoed Defense Bill Congressional action on NDAA and more stimulus comes day after Trump signed Covid-19-aid bill into law
2020-12-28 16:45:00 World Saudi Women’s Rights Activist Sentenced to Nearly Six Years in Prison Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has accused women’s rights activists of espionage on behalf of Qatar and Iran
2020-12-28 16:38:00 U.S. Nashville Bombing Motive Under Investigation Agencies are following up on a number of leads, including that suspect’s father worked at AT&T
2020-12-28 16:19:00 Markets U.S. Stocks Finish at Records After Stimulus Bill Passage S&P 500 climbs as investors bet that new fiscal spending will help consumers, small business
2020-12-28 16:15:00 U.S. EPA Sets Emissions Limits for Jet Aircraft First-ever rules help ensure U.S. jet makers can meet international rules and sell abroad
2020-12-28 16:09:00 World Three French Soldiers Killed in Mali During Counterterrorism Mission Deaths bring France’s military fatalities to at least 47 during operations against regional militant groups since 2013
2020-12-28 15:29:00 Peabody Energy Strikes Deal to Extend Debt Maturities Coal company struck a deal to push out maturities of nearly $1 billion in debt and credit facilities
2020-12-28 14:42:00 Opera Review Satisfying, Bite-Sized Operas Short pieces from 20 Irish composers, a serial space opera and a trio of works inspired by famous diaries.
2020-12-28 14:12:00 Opinion Biden’s Win for the American System Voters who chose him still have faith in public institutions. His goal should be to reassure the rest.
2020-12-28 14:12:00 Opinion Extradite Daniel Pearl’s Kidnapper If Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh is freed by a Pakistani court, he must face American justice.
2020-12-28 14:05:00 Real Estate Jeff Bezos, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen Led 2020’s Biggest Real-Estate Deals A look at the biggest residential transactions to close around the country this year, including two over $100 million
2020-12-28 13:08:00 Tech Cisco Systems Pulls Back From Smart City Push The challenge of modernizing the urban landscape has intensified with the pandemic pressuring public budgets
2020-12-28 12:35:00 World Hong Kong Activists Detained on Speedboat Are Tried in China Families of the defendants call for verdict soon and criticize authorities for restricting access to them
2020-12-28 12:24:00 Business Novavax Starts Late-Stage Trial of Covid-19 Vaccine in U.S., Mexico Latest shot will become the fifth to enter final-stage testing in the U.S., and if results are positive it could receive authorization sometime during 2021
2020-12-28 12:22:00 Life & Arts Alexa, Hypnotize Me Hypnosis, now going virtual, is gaining more acceptance from doctors, researchers and entrepreneurs. But potential patients remain skeptical.
2020-12-28 12:08:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Money Laundering Watchdog Turns Focus to Digital Tools, Extremism Marcus Pleyer, the president of the Financial Action Task Force, says certain money laundering patterns have increased during the pandemic
2020-12-28 11:46:00 Opinion Seeing Red in America’s Totalitarian Habits There is no state control of political speech in the U.S. as there was in the Soviet Union, but none is necessary.
2020-12-28 11:45:00 Opinion Real Audits for Chinese Firms Listed in the U.S. Investors on U.S. stock exchanges deserve not only independent audits, but oversight of the auditors.
2020-12-28 11:44:00 Opinion Government Has Made a Mess of Education If there is structural racism in America, it is the government monopoly on public schools.
2020-12-28 11:05:00 Politics Biden’s Get-Tough Plans Face Sobering China Reality China’s actually gotten stronger economically over the past year when compared with the rest of the world
2020-12-28 11:02:00 Life & Arts Airlines Aren’t Making It Easy to Use Covid Credits Many people have piled up vouchers for canceled flights in the past year, but redeeming them can be a real pain
2020-12-28 11:00:00 Books A Caveman Would Never Do CrossFit. Why There’s Nothing Natural About Exercise A new book debunks popular myths, including ‘that your inner primal macho ripped hunter-gatherer ancestor is who you were meant to be.’
2020-12-28 10:38:00 Markets Fed’s Rate Promise Could Be Yield of Dreams Treasury yields might finally have seen their historic low. The question is how long the Fed will slow their ascent.
2020-12-28 10:00:00 Life & Arts How to Stop Biting Your Nails—a Potential Treatment Offers Promise Kicking the habit of nail biting—a risky practice during the Covid pandemic—could be helped by a surprising new treatment.
2020-12-28 09:30:00 CFO Journal Barnes & Noble Education CFO Eyes More Cuts as Campuses Remain Closed The university bookstore chain has slashed jobs and other expenses during the pandemic
2020-12-28 09:00:00 Politics Republican Electors Cast Unofficial Ballots, Setting Up Congressional Clash Pro-Trump electors pin hopes on House, Senate counting their alternative votes, a tactic constitutional scholars say is unlikely to work
2020-12-28 08:44:00 World China Jails Citizen Journalist for Her Accounts of Covid-19 in Wuhan Prosecution underscores the lengths to which Beijing is willing to defend its official narrative of the pandemic
2020-12-28 08:44:00 World Ireland Revives Living-Wage Debate as Countries Look to Life After Covid Low-wage workers have become a priority for governments around the world as they look to rebuild their economies
2020-12-28 08:13:00 Markets Tiny Changes Can Help You Achieve Savings Goals for Retirement Easy habits make bigger financial accomplishments possible and help overcome waning motivation
2020-12-28 08:00:00 World Vatican Kickstarts Financial Overhaul, Pressed by Scandals, Deficit Pope Francis, elected with a mandate to overhaul the Vatican’s scandal-ridden finances, strengthens oversight of investments and spending
2020-12-28 07:30:00 CIO Journal Logging Off: Overtaxed CIOs Find Balance in Hikes, Pandemic Puppies Competing demands from work and a full stay-at-home households forced many IT leaders in 2020 to double-down on non-tech, stress-relieving activities
2020-12-28 07:28:00 Business Behind the LVMH-Tiffany Deal: Insults, Lawsuits and Political Intrigue LVMH Chairman Bernard Arnault faces the challenge of reviving Tiffany during a difficult time for the luxury industry
2020-12-28 06:52:00 Markets China’s Empire of Concrete The Chinese housing market has boomed, outstripping the rampant growth of the economy itself. This is how the nexus of households, local governments, banks and developers functions.
2020-12-28 06:45:00 Markets Alibaba Shares Tumble Again After Beijing Tightens Screws on Ant Group Company’s Hong Kong-listed shares slumped 8% Monday, extending a Christmas Eve selloff as investors reassess regulatory risks
2020-12-28 06:45:00 Markets Oil’s Turbulent Year Stirs Debate on Relevance of Benchmarks For some traders, U.S. crude futures prices plunging below zero in April highlighted their flaws as a global benchmark
2020-12-28 06:02:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Adviser Ad Rules, Last Call for Some Bars, Missing Business Travel Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2020-12-28 06:00:00 Markets FireEye Needs to Keep the Heat On The SolarWinds hack has boosted shares of the former cybersecurity star, but the benefits aren’t so clear-cut
2020-12-28 06:00:00 CMO Today The Regulatory Issues Madison Avenue May Face in 2021 The advertising industry is bracing for new proposals on consumer privacy and taxes on ads
2020-12-28 05:30:00 Business Instacart Looked Like a Savior. Now Stores Aren’t So Sure. Some supermarkets plan to stick with delivery service despite fees; Instacart says it lets grocers expand e-commerce without building their own infrastructure
2020-12-28 05:30:00 World Boris Johnson’s Post-Brexit Plan for Britain Remains a Puzzle U.K. prime minister’s policies so far don’t suggest he wants to embark on a Margaret Thatcher-style economic revolution
2020-12-28 04:57:00 Markets Ant’s Regulatory Nightmare Could Torment Other Chinese Tech Giants Too Ant’s troubles may be particularly severe, but others should be watching their backs
2020-12-27 21:53:00 World Shirley Young, Former GM Vice President, Dies at 85 Shanghai-born executive worked in market research and was on the boards of Salesforce.com and Bank of America
2020-12-27 21:32:00 Politics Trump Signs Covid-19 Aid Bill Averting Government Shutdown The president signed bill after pressing to increase direct payments to Americans
2020-12-27 20:00:00 Life & Arts The Grandparents Who Dropped Everything to Help Out During Covid Parents in need of extra help have enlisted older family members. ‘Once the door is open, love and intimacy fly through—along with conflict.’
2020-12-27 19:00:00 U.S. Outgoing New York Lawmakers Extol the Art of Compromising In interviews, Joe Lentol and Robin Schimminger say lessons from their early years in state Assembly are instructive in a currently divisive climate
2020-12-27 17:54:00 U.S. Nashville Bombing Suspect Anthony Warner Died in Explosion, Police Say Authorities believe the 63-year-old acted alone in Christmas morning blast; no motive is identified
2020-12-27 17:19:00 Books ‘The Irish Buddhist’ Review: Monk on a Mission Ordained in Rangoon, he urged his Buddhist co-religionists to despise British colonialism. His Dublin origins may have added to the fervor.
2020-12-27 17:00:00 Experience Report In Georgia, a Center for People With Disabilities Doubles as a Google User-Testing Hub Google and Tommy Hilfiger get feedback from residents on their accessible products
2020-12-27 16:49:00 Life & Arts Covid Left the Browns Short-Handed. Then They Lost to the Jets. Cleveland was missing four wide receivers in a 23-16 defeat against New York that could cost the team a playoff spot
2020-12-27 16:21:00 Opinion Biden’s Climate All Stars Jennifer Granholm subsidized green-job business losers in Michigan.
2020-12-27 16:19:00 Opinion Liberation Day for French Dressing The FDA also eases its vigilance over cherry pie standards.
2020-12-27 16:17:00 Opinion Can Snowden Bamboozle Trump? He stole American security secrets. His allies cajole the President for a pardon.
2020-12-27 16:15:00 Opinion Biden, Meet Your Frenemies in Europe The president-elect longs for ‘normal,’ but inherits an EU courting China and pushing out the U.S.
2020-12-27 16:11:00 Opinion Turning the Corner on Covid January will be tough but with sensible precautions the virus can be a manageable risk by spring.
2020-12-27 16:10:00 Opinion A Case Against Walmart Mocks Justice The federal government sues the chain for filling valid prescriptions in compliance with state law.
2020-12-27 16:08:00 Opinion Beat the Blues With Music Flicks These movies let us see Dylan roll, hear the Byrds chirp, and get the essence of America.
2020-12-27 16:04:00 Opinion The Jailing of the Citgo Six The five U.S. citizens and one permanent resident are pawns in a power struggle.
2020-12-27 16:01:00 Opinion Even Homer Gets Mobbed A Massachusetts school has banned ‘The Odyssey.’
2020-12-27 15:09:00 Business FAA Chief Had Helped Delta Retaliate Against Whistleblower, Administrative Judge Rules Carrier used a psychological evaluation to ground, intimidate pilot, Labor Department decision says
2020-12-27 15:00:00 Economy Economic Week Ahead: U.S. Home Sales, Jobless Claims A holiday-light slate of economic data could still help illuminate the impact of the U.S. coronavirus surge
2020-12-27 14:38:00 Opinion The Federal Reserve Should Get Back to Basics The Fed’s job is hard enough without demanding that it also lend directly to small businesses, corporations and state governments.
2020-12-27 14:32:00 Opinion The Pentagon Could Use a Four-Star General on Top Give me a defense secretary mature and savvy enough to doubt the generals.
2020-12-27 14:25:00 Opinion Sometimes the Tourniquet Works All Too Well My Boy Scout training saved a life. Or did it?
2020-12-27 14:12:00 Life & Arts Baseball Hall of Famer Phil Niekro Dies at 81 The pitcher baffled hitters with a knuckleball and won 318 games over his 24-year major-league career
2020-12-27 14:06:00 Opinion Cuomo Should Take a Knee in Buffalo The Bills host their first home playoff game in a quarter-century, but fans will likely be kept out.
2020-12-27 12:43:00 Markets China Tells Ant Group to Refocus on Its Payments Business Public rebuke is latest step by Beijing to rein in large companies after they took on what financial regulators regarded as excessive risk
2020-12-27 11:42:00 Business Highly Touted Monoclonal Antibody Therapies Sit Unused in Hospitals Medical centers overrun with critical Covid-19 patients are using just a fraction of allotted supplies of the treatment
2020-12-27 11:00:00 World France and Germany Retake Reins as Britain Leaves EU’s Economic Orbit Without the U.K., the bloc has shown more cohesion, but its underlying conflicts remain
2020-12-27 11:00:00 Politics Georgia Runoffs Test Democrats in Turning Out Black Voters Unlike other groups in rural areas, which trend heavily toward the GOP, Black Americans tend to stick with Democrats when they vote
2020-12-27 10:00:00 Economy Firms Want to Adjust Supply Chains Post-Pandemic, But Changes Take Time Covid-19 has exposed the risk of farflung production; alternatives like making things at home could raise costs
2020-12-27 09:00:00 Markets 2020 Was One of the Worst-Ever Years for Oil Write-Downs Oil industry has written down about $145 billion in assets this year, amid an unprecedented downturn and long-term questions about oil prices
2020-12-27 09:00:00 Markets Investors Double Down on Stocks, Pushing Margin Debt to Record Chasing bigger gains, some have exposed themselves to potentially devastating losses through riskier plays, such as concentrated positions and trading options
2020-12-27 08:00:00 U.S. New York City’s Shooting Surge Hit Black and Hispanic Communities Hardest City officials say the Covid-19 pandemic is partly responsible for the most gun violence the city has seen in years
2020-12-27 08:00:00 Life & Arts After a Jarring Layoff, an Executive Finds Inspiration to Start Her Own Business At 48, an HR manager shifts direction to become a professional organizer
2020-12-27 07:00:00 World Coronavirus Stigma Lingers Long After Disease Fades Some people have recovered from Covid-19 only to find friends and colleagues shunning them, which can make it harder to fight outbreaks
2020-12-27 07:00:00 Business Texas Fracking Billionaires Drew Covid-19 Aid While Investing in Rivals Sen. Ted Cruz helped rework program rules, enabling Wilks brothers and others in oil industry to get relief funding
2020-12-27 06:00:00 World China Envisions Its Digital-Currency Future, With Lotteries and a Year’s Worth of Laundry In the latest trial, residents in the city of Suzhou won a share of 20 million “digital yuan” to spend on online or offline purchases
2020-12-27 05:30:00 U.S. Hate-Crime Bills Gain Support in South Carolina, Arkansas The two states and Wyoming are only ones without laws that specifically penalize crimes motivated by bias
2020-12-27 05:30:00 Business Consumer Brands Bet Working From Home Is Here to Stay Makers of Folgers coffee, Scott toilet paper and Kraft Mac & Cheese are investing in factories, new products aimed at remote workers post-pandemic
2020-12-27 05:30:00 Economy Businesses Adapt Better to Covid-19 After Lessons Learned From Spring Surge A fresh rise in coronavirus infections in the West has set back the global economy, but the impact is far less, thanks to new company tactics and Chinese demand
2020-12-26 22:07:00 U.S. Gunman Kills Three in Illinois Bowling Alley Police say person of interest is in custody after what is believed to be a random shooting
2020-12-26 16:49:00 U.S. Investigators Identify Person of Interest in Nashville Explosion Authorities search a residence, review hundreds of other leads related to Christmas bombing
2020-12-26 13:30:00 Politics Covid-19 Aid Bill in Limbo as Trump Calls for Larger Payments Delay could result in millions having their unemployment benefits suspended and possible shutdown of federal government
2020-12-26 12:01:00 Life & Arts Why We Can’t Stop Longing for the Good Old Days Neurology and nostalgia help explain why people have always worried that the world is going downhill.
2020-12-26 12:00:00 Life & Arts Citrus Cordial It’s about drinking like a Viking. Not out of a horn, necessarily. But with balance, mindfulness and moderation.
2020-12-26 12:00:00 Business Covid-19 Propelled Businesses Into the Future. Ready or Not. Spurred by the pandemic, business changes that normally might have taken years unfolded in months. Now, shifts that began as temporary fixes are likely to become permanent.
2020-12-26 12:00:00 Life & Arts Svalbard Sling It’s about drinking like a Viking. Not out of a horn, necessarily. But with balance, mindfulness and moderation.
2020-12-26 12:00:00 Real Estate Those Home-Improvement DIY Projects? 5 Ways to Finally Tackle Them in 2021 Intimidated by those New Year’s design resolutions? For help taking on her 2021 to-do list, columnist Michelle Slatalla turned to experts in the very human weakness of procrastination.
2020-12-26 12:00:00 Life & Arts Cocktails Scandinavian Style: The New Hygge It’s about drinking like a Viking. Not out of a horn, necessarily. But with balance, mindfulness and moderation.
2020-12-26 10:00:00 U.S. Police Are Solving Fewer Murders During Covid-19 Pandemic Homicide rates are rising and solve rates are falling, which police attribute in part to challenges coronavirus poses to investigations
2020-12-26 09:00:00 Markets New California Law Could Spoil Some Growth for Food-Delivery Platforms Restaurant selection could shrink on food delivery platforms in the new year as regulation mounts
2020-12-26 09:00:00 Politics Biden’s Pick for Defense Chief Likely to Face Questions on Civilian Control, China Retired Gen. Lloyd Austin must surmount two congressional hurdles in his path to the Pentagon—a waiver, then confirmation
2020-12-26 08:37:00 Economy What Happens to Covid Unemployment Benefits in 2021? Here’s What We Know. Programs used by 14 million people are scheduled to end Dec. 26
2020-12-26 08:00:00 Markets Japan Plays Catch-Up in Venture Capital as Rivals Boom Nation’s startup scene is beginning to show some Silicon Valley swagger, but entrepreneurs and investors say it has a long way to go
2020-12-26 07:57:00 World U.S.-U.K. Relationship Is a Little Less Special After Brexit Brexit deal removes strain with Biden administration, but U.K.’s lost influence in Brussels reduces value of relationship with U.S.
2020-12-26 07:00:00 Business Holiday Shoppers Steered Clear of Stores, Favoring Online Buying Total U.S. retail sales edged up due to digital spending, but results came in below some forecasts
2020-12-26 07:00:00 Art Review Abroad at Home: Where Function Follows Form The hybrid venues known as sculptors’ museums, which can include—and sometimes consist solely of—the artist’s studio, offer a unique window into each one’s creative universe.
2020-12-26 06:00:00 Life & Arts The Biking Workout That Hit 10,000 Miles in a Year To keep fit while working from home during the Covid pandemic, a data analyst in Brooklyn got on his bike—and set himself an ambitious target
2020-12-26 05:33:00 Markets Bond Boom Comes to America’s Colleges and Universities Eyeing low rates and financial pressure tied to Covid-19, higher-education institutions are issuing a record amount of debt this year
2020-12-26 05:30:00 Politics New House Will Start With Narrow Margins and Big To-Do List Chamber will dive Jan. 3 into votes for the speakership and a rules package, before certifying the presidential election Jan. 6
2020-12-26 05:30:00 Business Your Next Car May Let You Drive Hands-Free. Is That a Good Thing? More vehicles are hitting showrooms with automated driving features, raising questions about driver distraction
2020-12-25 17:00:00 Life & Arts Having Fun Together While Social Distancing A behavioral economist answers questions on virtual parties, planning for surgery and choosing a gift for a new acquaintance.
2020-12-25 16:40:00 U.S. Nashville Rattled by Explosion Believed to Be Intentional FBI, ATF are working with local authorities on the investigation; no fatalities reported from the blast
2020-12-25 16:36:00 Life & Arts Celtics Hall of Famer K.C. Jones Dies at 88 The 12-time NBA champion is one of only seven players in history to win championships in college and the pros along with an Olympic gold medal
2020-12-25 16:14:00 World Businesses Brace for Disruption Despite Post-Brexit Trade Deal For the first time in almost 50 years, goods moving between the EU and the U.K. will face customs checks and need to meet separate regulations
2020-12-25 15:24:00 Books ‘Kiss Myself Goodbye’ Review: One Step Ahead of the Truth His aunt was the life of the party and the ruler of the roost. But her past was a set of intricate, purposeful mysteries.
2020-12-25 15:23:00 Books ‘From the Mountains to the Sea’ Review: Unchained Waterway The dream to restore the Atlantic salmon to a Maine river required engineers and ecologists to make friends.
2020-12-25 15:10:00 Politics President Trump Spends Christmas at Mar-a-Lago, and Joe Biden in Delaware Mr. Trump thanks front-line medical workers, law enforcement, first responders in statement
2020-12-25 15:08:00 Opinion Biden’s Fast Track to Reregulation The Congressional Review Act could swiftly undo Trump successes.
2020-12-25 15:06:00 Opinion Trump’s Weissmann Pardons Political clemency will inevitably follow political prosecutions.
2020-12-25 15:03:00 Politics U.S. Families, Economy, Government in Limbo as Trump Remains Mum on Covid-19 Aid Bill President has neither vetoed nor signed massive aid, spending bill, a day before pandemic-related unemployment benefits expire
2020-12-25 15:00:00 Life & Arts Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers Is a Modest Superstar The musician behind many chart-topping classics calls himself ‘a master of nothing who could do a few things at once
2020-12-25 14:58:00 Opinion Want to Move to the Countryside? The pandemic offers a unique opportunity to fix the housing crisis plaguing rural America.
2020-12-25 14:49:00 Opinion The Woke See No Evil—and Nothing but Evil Behind the paradox lies a superstition about history that may explain their viciousness and violence.
2020-12-25 14:41:00 Opinion Clean Your Room or I’ll Call My Union Rep An ill-conceived bid to turn Massachusetts foster parents into salaried government employees.
2020-12-25 14:40:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: Rand Paul ‘Today many of these same Republicans will vote for a bill that makes Modern Monetary Theory look like child’s play in comparison.’
2020-12-25 13:51:00 Markets Chinese Stocks Have Banner Year, Gaining Nearly $5 Trillion Surge aided by country’s rapid recovery from Covid-19, string of initial public offerings, rally in shares of consumer and technology companies
2020-12-25 13:00:00 Life & Arts What Tintin Taught Europeans About China The original cover art for ‘The Blue Lotus,’ an artistic breakthrough for the cartoonist Hergé, will be auctioned in Paris next month.
2020-12-25 12:00:00 Arts From Demi Moore to Matthew McConaughey, Screen Stars Are Turning to Podcasts Scripted shows are the latest step in the evolution of audio storytelling
2020-12-25 11:00:00 World U.S.-Trained Afghan Fighter Pilot Is in Hiding After Being Denied Safe Passage The case of a top Afghanistan pilot facing death threats from the Taliban has drawn ire from inside U.S. military ranks
2020-12-25 10:48:00 World First Covid-19 Vaccines Are Given in Latin America, But Region Faces Challenges Countries that are among the hardest hit by the coronavirus also must contend with limited funds and logistical difficulties
2020-12-25 10:00:00 Business Chief Executive or Diversity Chief? Nielsen’s CEO Is Both. Taking on both jobs at once, David Kenny is staking his reputation directly on racial equity and inclusion at the media-ratings company
2020-12-25 10:00:00 Business How Capitalism Saved Christmas The commercialization of the holiday, a familiar lament this time of year, helped rescue Christmas from the grip of violent street gangs
2020-12-25 08:49:00 A-hed Inside the Amazon Box—Your Swiffer Refill or Your Christmas Gift? With everyone buying online, holiday treats get mixed in with routine shopping; shared family accounts mean accidental spoilers
2020-12-25 08:24:00 World Brexit’s Unwinding of Integration With EU to Test U.K. Economy Trade deal will lessen early turbulence, but disruption comes at a challenging time
2020-12-25 08:00:00 Business A Blueprint for Green Buildings Struggles to Catch On Architecture group AIA has lofty goals for putting up energy-efficient structures. Much work remains.
2020-12-25 07:21:00 World Pope Francis, in Christmas Day Speech, Calls for Equitable Distribution of Covid-19 Vaccines Pontiff’s traditional survey of global hot spots highlights the Middle East
2020-12-25 07:01:00 World With Brexit, the U.K. Finds Sovereignty Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Getting Its Way Britain discovers that trade talks are about power; the EU is a much more important market to the U.K. than vice versa
2020-12-25 07:00:00 Politics Biden Attorney General Will Be Greeted With Politically Challenging Inbox of Cases Eventual appointee will have to grapple with investigations of president-elect’s son and Trump personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani
2020-12-25 07:00:00 Masterpiece New American Movement Max Weber’s ‘Athletic Contest’ features a mix of new ideas, formal experiments and theories then current in advanced art.
2020-12-25 05:45:00 Business Japan to Phase Out Gasoline-Powered Cars, Bucking Toyota Chief Starting in mid-2030s, all new vehicles must be hybrids or fully electric, government says
2020-12-25 05:30:00 Markets Municipal Bonds Aren’t Out of Peril The initial Covid-19 shock has faded, but assuming that things are back to normal in the $4 trillion municipal bond market would be a mistake.
2020-12-25 05:30:00 Business Covid-19 Risk for Workers at Restaurants: Cramped Kitchens Coronavirus-case data and employee complaints suggest food-prep workers can face exposure
2020-12-25 05:30:00 Politics Trump Lawyers Get Little Backup From Their Firms or Universities Chapman University becomes the latest organization to formally distance itself from the president’s legal efforts to challenge the election results
2020-12-25 05:30:00 Markets Covid-19 Caused Chaos for Investors in 2020. These Hedge Funds Earned Billions. Managers who bet certain stocks would rise and others would fall had their best year in a decade. The biggest winners wagered that e-commerce and cloud computing would thrive while shopping centers and travel struggled.
2020-12-25 01:25:00 U.S. U.S. to Require Negative Coronavirus Tests for Airline Passengers From U.K. U.K. has been grappling with a new variant of the coronavirus that is believed to be more contagious
2020-12-24 22:52:00 Politics Democrats Dominate Fundraising in Georgia Senate Runoffs Ossoff, Warnock raised a combined $210 million in two months as they seek to unseat GOP Sens. Loeffler, Perdue in Jan. 5 election.
2020-12-24 18:37:00 Opinion Ted Cruz and Hong Kong’s Democrats The Senator blocks a bill opening America’s door to victims of China.
2020-12-24 18:35:00 Opinion A Lone Star Speech Victory The University of Texas at Austin will dissolve its bias-response team.
2020-12-24 17:55:00 Opinion Peggy Noonan Forgot to Thank Trump for Vaccines She also didn’t mention Operation Warp Speed once.
2020-12-24 17:54:00 Opinion What ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ Can Conceal The Democratic Party seems more like a coalition of disparate groups.
2020-12-24 17:52:00 Opinion Bob Dylan, Capitalist? The Times They Are a-Changin’ I remember so well some of those early songs with an antiestablishment theme of protest.
2020-12-24 17:48:00 Business Covid-19 Holiday Travel Planned? Here’s What You Need to Know About Flying Measures to prevent transmission have changed since the start of the pandemic
2020-12-24 17:08:00 Opinion Three Generations on the Police Beat Recently retired after 38 years in the NYPD, John McAuliffe says the force is ‘demoralized.’ He’s no fan of Mayor de Blasio, and Black Lives Matter makes him see red.
2020-12-24 17:05:00 Opinion A Look Back at the Pandemic Year All our lives changed in 2020, and it’s only beginning to become clear how and how much.
2020-12-24 16:46:00 Politics Trump Gives Some Federal Workers Christmas Eve Off—Though Congress Is on the Job Previous presidents have customarily given federal workers a half-day off on Dec. 24 when Christmas has fallen on a Friday
2020-12-24 16:37:00 Opinion Christmases Past and Future The suspension of a beloved tradition reminds us of the courage that secured the blessings of liberty.
2020-12-24 15:40:00 Politics House Efforts to Alter Coronavirus Package Fail, Leaving Aid in Limbo Dueling moves to boost direct payments, cut foreign aid were blocked, as President Trump remained silent on his plans
2020-12-24 15:33:00 Markets U.S. Treasury Yields Slip in Holiday-Shortened Session Investors focus on trade deal reached between the U.K. and EU
2020-12-24 14:46:00 Real Estate The Binge-Worthy Décor of Netflix’s ‘Bridgerton’ The set decoration in this Netflix Original (and two other streamable shows) will have design-lovers clicking ‘Next Episode’ until the season’s final curtain
2020-12-24 14:15:00 Opinion Prosperity After Brexit The last-minute trade deal opens new doors for the U.K., EU and U.S.
2020-12-24 14:05:00 World How the Brexit Deal Alters Relations Between the U.K. and European Union An at-a-glance view of what the two sides agreed
2020-12-24 14:05:00 World Brexit Trade Deal Is Reached Between U.K., European Union Accord sets out terms of a much more distant relationship, averts worst fears of economic disruption
2020-12-24 13:57:00 Life & Arts Finding the Sacred in the Delights of Christmas More than a season of good cheer, the holiday asks believers to think about reality itself in new ways.
2020-12-24 13:28:00 U.S. Temporary SEC Leadership Is Set After Chairman’s Recent Departure Elad Roisman is expected to succeed Jay Clayton during final weeks of President Trump’s term
2020-12-24 13:20:00 Markets What Does the Brexit Deal Mean for Financial Services? Here are five things to know about how the agreement could impact the finance industry in the U.K. and EU
2020-12-24 12:28:00 Life & Arts ‘Covid’: The New Coinage That Defined 2020 An acronym that didn’t exist in 2019 has been proclaimed Word of the Year for the long shadow it has cast over our language
2020-12-24 11:43:00 World Britain, EU Prepare Borders for Life After Brexit Both sides are spending huge sums on parking lots, portable toilets along highways and thousands of new customs officials
2020-12-24 11:38:00 Business China’s Antitrust Probe Zeroes In on Vendor Claims of Alibaba Pressure Chinese tech companies face both increasing political pressure at home and intensified scrutiny in the U.S.
2020-12-24 11:25:00 Books ‘Icebound’ Review: Into the Void Seeking an ocean passage to China, William Barents set the template for polar adventure and endurance.
2020-12-24 11:17:00 Books Appreciation: John le Carré, 1931-2020 Frustrated by James Bond-style myths, John le Carré fashioned a literature of betrayal and the cost of secrets.
2020-12-24 11:13:00 Books ‘Follies’ Review: Castle Frivolous Tiny towers, fake ruins and Greek temples for the garden: the joys of a very English architectural obsession.
2020-12-24 11:11:00 Markets Brexit Deal Brings Clarity but Not Closure While the historic agreement signed by the U.K. and European Union on Christmas Eve removes the risk of very bad economic outcomes, it leaves much up in the air
2020-12-24 11:06:00 Books ‘The Unquiet Englishman’ Review: Many Shades of Greene Finding the balance between the twin myths of Graham Greene’s inner demons and his questing spirit.
2020-12-24 10:59:00 WSJ Logistics Report Logistics Report: Delivering More Doses; Crackdown on Alibaba; Peloton’s Faster Gear Today’s Top Supply Chain & Logistics News from WSJ
2020-12-24 10:59:00 Markets Post-Pandemic Future May Not Match Investor Fantasies Market valuations suggest the world will step into a Jetsons-like future almost as soon as vaccinations are complete
2020-12-24 10:47:00 Books Fiction: Memento Mori Contemporary novelists readily take on the end of the world. The end of a life is a tougher subject.
2020-12-24 10:42:00 Books Children’s Books: Too Much Too Soon A look at well-intentioned but off-target books for little ones—and a few that hit the mark.
2020-12-24 10:41:00 Life & Arts What 18 Celebrities and Tastemakers Streamed and Read During the Pandemic Covid has turned even cultural luminaries into homebodies. We asked 18 musicians, actors, artists, designers and authors to share their favorite quarantine discoveries.
2020-12-24 10:29:00 Books Cocktail Books: Here’s to Simple Pleasures Homebound holidays make knowing how to mix a drink particularly rewarding. And it doesn’t have to be complex.
2020-12-24 10:24:00 Books Five Best: On Civil Wars Within Families Selected by Rachel Holmes, author of ‘Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel.’
2020-12-24 09:44:00 Markets Gas Is Cleaner Than Oil, But Still Has a Transition Problem Natural gas will play a key role in the shift to renewable energy, but that is no guarantee it will provide good returns
2020-12-24 09:42:00 World U.K., EU Poised to Agree on Post-Brexit Trade Deal Agreement should be reached in the coming hours, say people close to the talks
2020-12-24 09:00:00 World Covid-19 Leaves Some Study-Abroad Students Stranded Over the Holidays Pandemic obliges separated families to shift traditional rituals online, to the chagrin of many
2020-12-24 09:00:00 Business Covid-19 Test Makers Aim to Broaden Virus Testing Well Into Spring U.S. will likely be able to perform 70 million tests a week in January and 200 million a week in April, according to one analysis
2020-12-24 08:43:00 Real Estate Once Asking $100 Million, Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch Sells to Billionaire Ron Burkle for $22 Million The Los Olivos, Calif., property underwent a series of price cuts after hitting the market in 2015
2020-12-24 08:16:00 Life & Arts From Nike to Balenciaga, the Seven Strangest Sneakers of 2020 During a tumultuous year, sneaker companies continued to deliver an incredible number of sneaker designs, some with truly perplexing features--evoking cloven hoofs, teeter-totters and even melting ice-cream cones
2020-12-24 08:15:00 Markets Alibaba, General Dynamics, Altimar: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today Stock futures edged higher at the end of a shortened trading week
2020-12-24 08:00:00 Markets Carbon Prices Jump Despite Record Drop in Emissions European Union’s decision to curb greenhouse gases is driving the latest rally, putting carbon credits on par with gold
2020-12-24 08:00:00 Business In Covid-19 Lockdowns, Businesses Hunt for Loopholes Bars try hairdressing, while the world’s oldest profession diversifies into wine and canned sausages
2020-12-24 08:00:00 Economy Japan’s New Economic Policy Guru: An Englishman Who Restores Temples David Atkinson, a former Goldman Sachs analyst who has the ear of the prime minister, urges raising productivity of smaller companies
2020-12-24 07:30:00 CIO Journal CIOs’ Favorite Reads of 2020 Works on innovation, Covid-19 top the list
2020-12-24 07:00:00 Business Leadership During Covid-19: How 12 Business Chiefs Navigated the Crisis From Clorox and Wegmans to Gap, Pfizer and Quibi, leaders found—or lost—their way in 2020
2020-12-24 07:00:00 Politics Jeffrey Rosen Takes Reins of a Justice Department Under Pressure Acting attorney general is expected to face continuing demands from President Trump regarding election
2020-12-24 07:00:00 U.S. Businesses Feared a Flood of Covid-19 Lawsuits. It Hasn’t Happened. Personal-injury claims over infections are either too hard to prove or get funneled into the workers’ compensation system
2020-12-24 07:00:00 Pro PE People TIFF Investment Management’s Parry Weighs In on Lower Midmarket Investing Some general partners and institutional investors are expected to shrink from backing smaller companies after the pandemic
2020-12-24 07:00:00 World Italy Bets on a Lottery to Tame Tax Evasion New program encourages shoppers to insist on receipts, which become lottery tickets
2020-12-24 06:00:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Companies Need to Prepare for U.K. Sanctions Regime Rollout, Lawyers Say The Brexit transition period is set to end Dec. 31
2020-12-24 05:42:00 Markets Beijing Sends Alibaba an Unwelcome Christmas Present Government’s antitrust broadside against Chinese tech giant marks an escalation in hostilities
2020-12-24 05:30:00 Politics Biden to Review U.S. Nuclear-Weapons Programs, With Eye Toward Cuts President-elect promised to reduce ‘excessive’ spending on nuclear arsenal and shrink its role in strategy, but critics say updates are overdue
2020-12-24 05:30:00 CFO Journal CFOs Share Their Favorite Reads of 2020 Finance chiefs took time during a busy year to read survival stories, thrillers and the history of cheating in America, among other topics
2020-12-24 05:30:00 Markets Bitcoin’s Rally Has Already Outlasted 2017’s Epic Run The digital currency has tripled in price this year and is holding its gains longer
2020-12-24 05:30:00 Politics Covid-19 Stimulus Package Delivers a Christmas Haul for Loggers Timber industry was largely denied coronavirus aid money until Congress stepped in
2020-12-24 05:10:00 Markets Stock Futures Edge Up, Pointing to Flat Week for Dow Trading is scheduled to end by 1 p.m. ET on Thursday, and markets will be shut Friday
2020-12-24 03:08:00 Markets Alibaba Selloff Deepens as Antitrust Probe Rattles Investors Chinese regulators say they are taking actions against Alibaba and Ant Group
2020-12-24 03:05:00 World Pakistan Court Orders Man Convicted of Murdering Wall Street Journal Reporter Daniel Pearl to Be Freed Judges remove temporary detention order that kept Omar Sheikh in jail after his death sentence was set aside in April
2020-12-23 22:42:00 Politics Trump Issues 26 More Pardons, Including to Paul Manafort, Roger Stone Stone and Manafort played instrumental roles in president’s political rise; Charles Kushner is also among those pardoned
2020-12-23 22:03:00 Books Bestselling Books Week Ended December 19 With data from NPD BookScan
2020-12-23 21:38:00 Tech Chinese Regulators Launch Antitrust Investigation Into Alibaba Affiliate Ant Group summoned for meetings on competition and consumer rights
2020-12-23 18:25:00 Books ‘The Oxford Handbook of Christmas’ Review: The Making of a Holiday Personal gift-giving, as opposed to communal merry-making, is a recent development, but the logic of charity at Christmas is perennial.
2020-12-23 18:23:00 Opinion In Hoc Anno Domini
2020-12-23 18:22:00 Opinion Trump vs. a GOP Senate His vetoes could cost Republicans the two Jan. 5 Georgia runoffs.
2020-12-23 18:20:00 Life & Arts NBA Postpones First Game on Second Day of New Season After positive Covid tests, quarantines and James Harden’s rules violation, the Rockets didn’t have enough players for their Wednesday opener
2020-12-23 18:16:00 Opinion Science Eats Its Own A top journal retracts a study following a political outcry.
2020-12-23 18:14:00 Opinion Donald Trump’s Sudan Progress Congress approves a deal to draw the country from its terror-supporting past.
2020-12-23 18:00:00 CMO Today Super Bowl Advertisers Gravitate to Humor in a Hard Time Some brands are likely to acknowledge the pandemic, but many will offer escapism
2020-12-23 17:52:00 Risk & Compliance Journal RPM, Chief Compliance Officer Settle SEC Claims of Accounting, Disclosure Violations The company failed to quickly make disclosures related to a Justice Department investigation
2020-12-23 17:36:00 Opinion In Defense of Scrooge, Whose Thrift Blessed the World In the 1840s, Dickens didn’tsee how businessmen like his hero were already lifting mankind from poverty.
2020-12-23 17:35:00 Opinion 2020 Autopsies for Both Parties One lesson is that hostility motivates voters as much as enthusiasm does.
2020-12-23 17:32:00 Opinion Breakdancing Comes to the Olympics The IOC has also approved surfing, skateboarding and sport climbing.
2020-12-23 17:31:00 Opinion Covid Has Killed the Apology Johns Hopkins should create a metric for politicians who break their own coronavirus rules.
2020-12-23 17:30:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: Holidays Are for the Politicians ‘She was accompanied by three generations of her family from two households.’
2020-12-23 17:22:00 Life & Arts Bach and My Musical Advent Calendar A keyboard masterpiece depends on the complex relationship between sound waves and musical notes.
2020-12-23 17:03:00 U.S. New York City Health-Care Worker Has Severe Adverse Reaction to Covid-19 Vaccine Employee suffered anaphylaxis after getting Pfizer-BioNTech injection, but is in stable condition
2020-12-23 16:56:00 Politics Rocket Attack on U.S. Embassy in Baghdad Largest in a Decade, General Says U.S. Central Command chief says he doesn’t know if Iran directed the attack, adding, ‘We do not seek a war’
2020-12-23 16:41:00 Markets U.S. Government-Bond Yields Rise on Post-Brexit Trade Deal Hopes Yield on 10-year Treasury note at its closest in weeks to psychologically significant threshold of 1%
2020-12-23 16:31:00 Experience Report Retailers Navigate Customer Service in the Last Days of Holiday ‘Shipageddon’ Some companies are speeding up supply chains while others are lowering expectations before customers click ‘buy’
2020-12-23 16:24:00 Opinion Unhappy Festivus! Is one day enough to air all our grievances about federal spending?
2020-12-23 16:20:00 Politics Biden Declares Political Center Alive and Well President-elect says there are enough GOP lawmakers prepared to meet him in middle that he can get things done in evenly divided Congress
2020-12-23 16:13:00 Renovate America Files for Bankruptcy, Driven Out of Green-Energy Assessment Business by Lawsuits Tougher underwriting pushed Renovate out of the energy-efficiency assessments business; another business line will be sold
2020-12-23 16:11:00 World China’s Sinovac Delays Covid-19 Vaccine Trial Results Brazil was expected to announce efficacy rate from phase 3 trials on Wednesday
2020-12-23 16:08:00 U.S. Andrew Yang Files Paperwork to Explore New York City Mayoral Run Tech entrepreneur would join crowded field of Democrats vying for city’s top spot
2020-12-23 16:02:00 Politics Trump Vetoes Defense Policy Bill; Covid Aid in Limbo Two key pieces of legislation are thrown into turmoil as the president objects
2020-12-23 15:44:00 U.S. EPA Leaves National Standard for Ozone Air Pollution Unchanged Business groups had pushed for decision to retain current limits on pollutant
2020-12-23 15:28:00 Television Review ‘Shadow Lines’ Review: Espionage in Reindeer Country Cold War intrigue heats up this tale of Finnish spies and KGB agents.
2020-12-23 15:26:00 Film Review ‘Farewell Amor’ Review: Dancers Without Borders In Ekwa Msangi’s debut feature, a long-separated family, now reunited, must find the right steps to make a new life.
2020-12-23 15:25:00 Television Review ‘Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page’ Review: The Bigger Story Behind ‘Little House’ This ‘American Masters’ documentary reveals that there’s much more to the iconic author and her work than feel-good Americana.
2020-12-23 15:20:00 Film Review ‘Sylvie’s Love’ Review: Lush Movie Life Reimagined Eugene Ashe’s sumptuous romance in a Harlem setting rings changes on Hollywood history.
2020-12-23 15:08:00 Opinion California’s Misguided War on Natural Gas Unintended consequences can be a cruel mistress.
2020-12-23 15:07:00 Opinion A Diaspora's Hope and a Dissident’s Bravery Saying what you think can have dire consequences for Cubans.
2020-12-23 15:06:00 Opinion Comparing Puritans to the Woke Is Unfair to Puritans The puritans opposed Christmas for theological reasons, but in no way opposed pleasure in general.
2020-12-23 15:00:00 Screen Time What to Watch: 8 Podcasts, Movies and Shows to Stream Over the Holidays Mads Mikkelsen drinks before school, Wonder Woman visits 1984 and other feasts for your eyes and ears
2020-12-23 14:51:00 Politics With SolarWinds Hack, Suspected Russian Hackers Again Flex Moscow’s Spycraft Muscle Cyber intrusion sends a message to the West that years of sanctions haven’t deterred Russia’s security apparatus from conducting broad-based operations, analysts say
2020-12-23 14:42:00 Life & Arts Business Travel Was Terrible—and I Miss It So Much A newfound appreciation for long waits at airports, bland rental cars and rooms without views
2020-12-23 14:31:00 Economy Three Reasons 2021 Could Be (a Lot) Better Than You Think Unusual nature of this recession suggests it could lead to more rapid recovery than others
2020-12-23 14:20:00 Business Nikola, Republic Services End Collaboration on Garbage-Truck Development Longer-than-expected development time and unexpected costs are cited
2020-12-23 14:09:00 U.S. New York Law Makes Voter Registration Easier State government agencies will be required to automatically register people to vote when they do things like apply for a driver’s license
2020-12-23 14:03:00 World How British Scientists Tracked Down the New Covid-19 Variant Researchers are trying to determine whether the variant will cause more-serious disease and evade vaccines
2020-12-23 13:18:00 Markets Consumers Could Use Some Help This Winter Weak consumer spending data is the latest indication that the economy faces a challenging period, which could be made worse if stimulus doesn’t arrive
2020-12-23 13:15:00 Markets Has the Fed Rewritten the Laws of Investing? Things probably aren’t different this time with market valuations so high, but if they are then that still might not be so good.
2020-12-23 13:12:00 Africa Kidnapped Nigerian Schoolboys Say Ransom Was Paid, Tell of Beatings Freed captives recount mistreatment by Boko Haram, as group’s terrorism and criminality appear to coalesce
2020-12-23 12:57:00 Life & Arts The U.S. Should Stop Underestimating Russian Power Vladimir Putin deploys capabilities and resources that have made his country a resurgent global player
2020-12-23 12:32:00 Opinion Charter Schools vs. Eco-Tours: It’s No Contest College essays by Success Academy seniors tell stories of inspiration and heartbreak.
2020-12-23 12:30:00 Opinion Who Made the Vaccine Possible? Not WHO Pharmaceutical companies and Trump’s Operation Warp Speed deserve the vast bulk of the credit.
2020-12-23 12:07:00 Life & Arts Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and a Quirky NBA Contender in Brooklyn After a long wait, two superstars pair in a borough where the public still can’t get into the arena
2020-12-23 12:06:00 Tech 5G Auction Shatters Record as Bidding Tops $69 Billion FCC sale of wireless licenses has already hit new spending highs and the total could climb after a holiday break
2020-12-23 11:51:00 U.S. Columbus, Ohio, Police Officer Relieved of Duties After Killing of Black Man Two officers were responding to a non-emergency call and neither turned on a body camera until after the shooting, according to police
2020-12-23 11:44:00 Business Some Holiday Hams May Be Harder to Find. Blame Covid-19 Boneless hams and other processed pork products might be less available as coronavirus pressures meat plant operations
2020-12-23 10:47:00 Markets Jack Ma’s Ant Group Slashes Credit Limits for Some Younger Borrowers in China Move shows fintech giant is dialing back risk in its lending business after pressure from Chinese regulators
2020-12-23 10:33:00 World Nepal Elections Could Set Back China’s Goals Division in Himalayan nation’s Communist Party could allow a less pro-China party to take control
2020-12-23 10:06:00 Arts How Pixar Brings ‘Soul’ and Existential Ideas to Life Filmmakers share behind-the-scenes art from the movie-making process. The film arrives on Disney+ Christmas Day.
2020-12-23 10:00:00 World Lawyer Negotiated Eye-Popping Pay Deals for CEOs Joseph Bachelder, who has died at age 88, rebutted arguments that executives were overpaid
2020-12-23 10:00:00 U.S. States Square Off Over Taxing Remote Workers’ Income Ruling by Supreme Court would have budget implications for states that have lost billions of dollars in tax revenue during pandemic
2020-12-23 09:34:00 Life & Arts 2021 BMW M550i: A Sedan That Won’t Put You to Sleep The German auto maker has tuned and torqued up the latest edition of its sporty four-door. Dan Neil sees what it can do on an empty stretch of highway.
2020-12-23 09:34:00 Politics Biden’s Nominees Face Narrow Path in Senate McConnell says picks would get floor votes if they get out of committee and GOP keeps majority, but some have drawn strong opposition
2020-12-23 09:23:00 Markets Owl Rock, Dyal Strike Deal to Combine and Go Public Agreement through special-purpose acquisition company would value combined entity, Blue Owl, at $12.5 billion
2020-12-23 09:17:00 Markets Moderna, Supernus, Ocugen: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today U.S. stock futures were higher as investors weighed a full slate of economic data
2020-12-23 09:02:00 World One Iranian Woman’s Year in the Shadow of U.S. Sanctions and Covid-19 Iran’s troubles have fallen especially hard on members of the working class like Mahnaz Parhizkari, a single mother in Tehran
2020-12-23 09:00:00 Markets Private-Debt Funds Withstand Covid-19, but Bigger Test Comes Next Year Funds that lend to smaller companies such as dentist offices and software makers have grown into a major part of the financial infrastructure
2020-12-23 08:52:00 U.S. U.S. Jobless Claims Retreat From Three-Month High Data comes amid broader signs of a slowing economic recovery
2020-12-23 08:51:00 World Brexit Deal Negotiations Narrow to One Sensitive Subject: Fish Despite disagreements, officials say a deal could be done before Christmas
2020-12-23 08:32:00 Business Gift Cards Are the Go-To Holiday Gifts of 2020 Shoppers are splurging on gift cards in December amid concern over store visits and shipping delays, as Covid-19 cases surge
2020-12-23 08:26:00 World Hong Kong Socialites Danced the Night Away—Until a Covid Cluster Stopped the Music A group of coronavirus cases in recent wave was traced to dancing venues popular among some of the city’s wealthiest residents
2020-12-23 08:00:00 Politics Restaurants Brace for Tough Winter After Congress Spurns Cash Grants Owners say PPP loans and tax breaks for business meals won’t help much while dining rooms are closed
2020-12-23 07:56:00 Markets Defense Deal Will Pose an Early Test for Biden Administration Lockheed’s proposed acquisition of Aerojet will reveal officials’ views on increasing concentration among defense contractors
2020-12-23 07:33:00 World Hong Kong High Court Grants Bail to Newspaper Publisher Jimmy Lai Surprise decision puts pro-democracy activist under effective house arrest and bars him from making public statements
2020-12-23 07:30:00 CIO Journal CIOs Expect Tech Investments to Climb in 2021 Rapid tech deployments during the pandemic have acted as a proof-of-concept for a range of digital projects
2020-12-23 07:00:00 World With New Aircraft Carrier, France Looks to Bolster Military Ties With U.S. French President Macron plans new flagship that would be among the world’s largest
2020-12-23 06:45:00 Markets In China, Online Grocery Shopping Gets Political The pandemic boosted the business of selling vegetables online in the country to the point where it has attracted the attention of regulators
2020-12-23 06:00:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Far-Flung Bonds, Tech Talent Diversity, Cheating in Online School Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2020-12-23 05:38:00 Markets U.S. Stock Futures Drift Up Ahead of Economic Data Investors shrug off President Trump’s request for lawmakers to amend the coronavirus-aid package expected to support the economy through the winter
2020-12-23 05:30:00 Economy Rising Virus Cases Weigh on Economic Recovery Consumer spending and incomes could take hit, as business restrictions aim to curb surge of infections
2020-12-23 05:30:00 Business Agriculture Industry Bets on a New Cash Crop: Carbon Agribusiness giants, startups jockey to pay farmers for capturing greenhouse gases in fields; environmental groups question impact
2020-12-23 05:30:00 Markets Centerview Resists Lure of Record IPO Market Merger-advisory boutique plans to remain private even as peers rush to go public
2020-12-23 05:30:00 CFO Journal Yogurt Maker Chobani Recruits New CFO as It Continues to Expand Jody Macedonio is set to take over as finance chief next week
2020-12-23 05:30:00 Tech Apple’s China App Store Sheds Games Under Pressure Thousands of videogames face removal as Beijing tightens control of internet
2020-12-23 05:30:00 Markets Etsy and Shopify Buoyed as Covid-19 Boosts Online Sales Platforms mainly catering to small businesses are seen extending sales growth after pandemic ends
2020-12-22 22:18:00 Politics Iran Pushed Online Effort to Incite Violence Against Officials Defending U.S. Election Result FBI finds Iran was behind website targeting Director Chris Wray and other federal and state officials
2020-12-22 20:58:00 Business Sackler Family Debated Lawsuit Risk While Taking Billions from Purdue Memo advised a co-owner to keep assets overseas to protect against litigation
2020-12-22 20:48:00 Politics Biden to Nominate Miguel Cardona as Education Secretary Cardona, Connecticut’s education commissioner, would seek to implement president-elect’s pledge to expand resources for public schools
2020-12-22 20:47:00 Politics Trump Issues 15 Pardons and Five Commutations Former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos, former Reps. Chris Collins and Duncan Hunter among the pardoned
2020-12-22 20:40:00 Politics California Governor Picks Alex Padilla to Fill Harris’s Senate Seat California secretary of state will become first Latino senator to represent state
2020-12-22 20:13:00 Politics Trump Asks Congress to Amend Covid-19 Package, Boost Direct Payments President tweeted a video criticizing the deal
2020-12-22 19:49:00 Pro Bankruptcy McKinsey’s Bankruptcy Disclosure Deal Approved, Ending Trial A Texas judge approved the consulting firm’s deal with government watchdogs, which affects how it discloses potential conflicts of interest
2020-12-22 19:33:00 Business Pfizer Nears Covid-19 Vaccine Deal With U.S. to Boost Supply Company would provide 100 million more doses to bolster campaign under way in U.S.
2020-12-22 19:31:00 Opinion Spygate Investigation Not Over Yet A presidential memorandum for the special counsel.
2020-12-22 19:15:00 Tech Elon Musk Says He Once Approached Apple CEO About Buying Tesla Apple’s Tim Cook didn’t take the meeting, the electric-vehicle maker’s chief says in a tweet
2020-12-22 19:14:00 Politics Hunter Biden’s Family Name Aided Deals With Foreign Tycoons Business dealings of Joe Biden’s son are at the center of a federal tax investigation and loom over the start of his presidency
2020-12-22 18:55:00 World Covid-19 Reaches Antarctica, the Last Continent Hit by the Pandemic Chile says three dozen people are infected with coronavirus on its remote Antarctica station
2020-12-22 18:39:00 Opinion Will You Take the Vaccine? Students debate the merits and risks of getting vaccinated against Covid-19.
2020-12-22 18:36:00 Opinion The State Covid Windfall They plead poverty but their revenue and federal aid show otherwise.
2020-12-22 18:35:00 Opinion The House Fight Heats Up An Iowa candidate asks Democrats not to seat the Republican winner.
2020-12-22 18:34:00 Opinion A Sincere Government Apology Gen. Perna has presided over vaccine delivery that is a great success.
2020-12-22 18:33:00 Opinion Fighting a Stock Exchange Shakedown A new rule will help traders access vital price information.
2020-12-22 18:25:00 World White House Aide Jared Kushner on First Israeli Commercial Flight to Morocco Mr. Kushner and Israeli officials met with Moroccan leaders to sign diplomatic and economic agreements
2020-12-22 18:23:00 U.S. Sixteen GOP Attorneys General Back NRA in Federal Lawsuit New York Attorney General Letitia James, Democrat, responded she would continue fighting to dissolve gun-rights group
2020-12-22 18:19:00 Opinion Will Biden’s Education Nominee Stand for Students or for Unions? Cardona will face pressure to abandon charter schools, one of the few government innovations that work.
2020-12-22 18:16:00 Opinion Laws Governing Online Speech Need Reform, Not Repeal Section 230 has its flaws, but those are nothing compared with what Big Brother would bring.
2020-12-22 18:16:00 Opinion Facebook’s Censors and the Ingredients List A policy aimed at conspiracy theories could hit scientific brainstorming.
2020-12-22 18:07:00 Opinion A Deterrent for the Next Hackers The digital attacker today is a nation state and not Matthew Broderick in ‘War Games.’
2020-12-22 18:06:00 Books ‘The Age of Wood’ Review: How to Carve a Civilization Each advance in tool making made it easier to build from wood and exploit its advantages. Plank ships alone launched a new era of trade.
2020-12-22 17:52:00 World France to Reopen Border to Trucks From England, but Says Drivers Must Take Covid-19 Test Frontier closure led to lines of thousands of trucks on roads leading to English Channel ports
2020-12-22 17:46:00 Politics New Population Data Suggest Which States Will Win and Lose Seats in Congress Census Bureau estimates show extent of Americans’ shift to traditionally Republican states in South and West
2020-12-22 17:27:00 Politics Biden Vows Forceful Response to Suspected Russian Hack of Government Agencies President-elect faults Trump over intrusion, sees ‘no evidence’ attack is under control
2020-12-22 17:22:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Acting Criminal Chief Exits as Justice Department Braces for Transition Brian Rabbitt, head of the department’s criminal division, is stepping down effective Friday
2020-12-22 17:20:00 World Israel Faces Fourth Election in Two Years After Parliament Is Dissolved Disagreements over a budget law bring an end to a short-lived unity government led by Benjamin Netanyahu
2020-12-22 16:52:00 Business U.S. Sues Walmart, Alleging Role in Fueling Opioid Crisis Justice Department accuses retail giant of ignoring warnings from its own pharmacists; complaint follows company’s suit to fight allegations pre-emptively
2020-12-22 16:39:00 Film Review ‘News of the World’ Review: Quiet Ballad of the Lost and Found Tom Hanks stars in Paul Greengrass’s latest, about an impoverished widower who tries to help a silent, abandoned girl in 1870.
2020-12-22 16:21:00 Business Airlines to Bring Back Thousands of Workers After Passage of Covid-19 Aid Bill Government relief covers carriers’ payrolls through March, but rebound in air travel remains uncertain
2020-12-22 16:15:00 Business IAC’s Plans to Spin Off Vimeo Send Shares Surging Online video company to become an independent public company; IAC shares surged 14%
2020-12-22 16:08:00 Politics Restaurants Can Require Servers to Share Tips Under New U.S. Rule Those who receive gratuities could be forced to share them with non-tipped co-workers
2020-12-22 15:52:00 Business Passenger Who Died on United Flight Had Covid-19, Coroner Says Airline said it was providing information to health officials so they can reach passengers who might have been exposed during the flight
2020-12-22 15:43:00 Markets U.S. Treasury Yields Fall as Investors Shrug Off Covid-19 Stimulus Uncertainty over trade talks between the U.K. and EU also driving investors into safety of government bonds
2020-12-22 15:23:00 Markets Don’t Hit the Brakes on CarMax Muted retail sales and Covid-related store restrictions seem to be weighing heavily on CarMax investors’ minds, but they should look further ahead
2020-12-22 15:19:00 Film Review ‘Soul’ Review: Riffing Joyously on the Theme of Life Pixar’s latest features a jazz pianist grappling with the biggest of existential questions
2020-12-22 15:00:00 Life & Arts The Best Advice Our Elders Ever Gave Us To get through this toughest of years, many of us are relying on wisdom we received long ago from older family members
2020-12-22 14:54:00 Politics How the Covid-19 Aid Deal Came Together Early talks among rank-and-file lawmakers and a late push from party leaders sealed the $900 billion agreement
2020-12-22 14:50:00 Markets SEC Approves NYSE’s Plan for New IPO Alternative Proposal lets companies raise capital through direct listings
2020-12-22 14:28:00 World New Coronavirus Strain Splits Scientists, as U.K. and Others Act to Curb Spread Health experts are trying to decipher how transmissible and deadly is the new strain spreading across the U.K.
2020-12-22 14:08:00 Life & Arts Former AG Loretta Lynch Joins NFL Probe of Escalating Fight Among Washington Football Team Owners The former U.S. Attorney General is helping the NFL uncover misconduct in the feud between Dan Snyder and the minority owners of the Washington Football Team
2020-12-22 13:37:00 Business Publishers Feel Validated by States’ Google Antitrust Lawsuit Accusations by Texas and nine other states give ground to publishers’ frustrations that the digital-ad economy is rigged
2020-12-22 13:09:00 Markets Apple Needs One More Thing Again Report on renewed car effort lights up richly valued stock following busy launch period
2020-12-22 12:54:00 World Canada Vetoes China Gold Deal in Arctic Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faces growing pressure to take a firmer line with Beijing as China’s influence expands
2020-12-22 12:48:00 Economy U.S. Home Sales Declined in November After Five Monthly Gains Lack of houses constrained sales; consumer confidence slipped in December
2020-12-22 12:45:00 Music Review ‘Music to Be Murdered By—Side B’ by Eminem Review: Wordplay That Wears Thin The star’s latest—a follow-up to his album released at the start of the year—features calisthenic rapping that can’t compensate for uninspired ideas and tired humor.
2020-12-22 12:38:00 Opinion Soviet Politics, American Style A propagandistic press, the crushing of academic freedom and the shattering of family loyalties.
2020-12-22 12:36:00 Opinion Can Team Biden Prevent a Recession? The Covid relief package is welcome, but the new president will have to do more.
2020-12-22 12:32:00 Whats News Business Finance What’s News: Business & Finance
2020-12-22 12:31:00 Whats News World Wide What’s News: World-Wide
2020-12-22 12:25:00 Business Google, Facebook Agreed to Team Up Against Possible Antitrust Action, Draft Lawsuit Says Draft lawsuit quotes Facebook’s Sandberg saying Google pact was a ‘big deal strategically’
2020-12-22 12:18:00 Markets Peloton Spins to ‘Born in the U.S.A.’ The company’s new wheels have investors spinning in hopes for faster delivery times and better growth ahead
2020-12-22 12:08:00 Business Blacklisting of China’s Top Chip Maker SMIC Comes With Exceptions U.S. lawmakers want tougher curbs on exports to Chinese semiconductor giant
2020-12-22 12:02:00 Tech Chinese Regulators Summon Tech Giants, Intensifying Pressure Popular online group-buying model triggers scrutiny of Alibaba, Tencent and others
2020-12-22 12:01:00 U.S. EPA Adopts New Rules on Lead Contamination in Water The overhaul allows utilities more time to replace lead water lines among other changes designed to encourage them to replace them faster
2020-12-22 12:01:00 U.S. Covid-19 Deaths to Reverse U.S. Life-Expectancy Gains Life expectancy increased in 2019 despite uptick in drug deaths but coronavirus is set to reverse trend
2020-12-22 11:20:00 Arts & Entertainment Turning Great Plays Into Bad Films The new ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ is a rare thing, a successful film adaptation of a first-rate stagework; there is one reason most fail—and there are plenty of culprits.
2020-12-22 11:13:00 Economy Consumer Confidence Fell in December Americans’ view of the U.S. economy soured this month amid the coronavirus surge
2020-12-22 11:12:00 Opinion Financial Regulators Versus Climate Change Regulators want to get into an area that they really know nothing about.
2020-12-22 11:04:00 Opinion More Firms Should Fight Bogus Government Lawsuits The Oracle case is a helpful example of how statistical ‘proofs’ of racism can fall apart under careful judicial scrutiny.
2020-12-22 10:55:00 Opinion We Were Right to Wait for a Demonstrably Safe Vaccine I am happy that corners weren’t cut—denying anti-vaxxers ammunition.
2020-12-22 10:26:00 Tech How Amazon Wins: By Steamrolling Rivals and Partners CEO Jeff Bezos still runs the e-commerce giant with the drive of a startup trying to survive, and that strand of its corporate DNA is becoming a liability
2020-12-22 10:19:00 Life & Arts Sparkling-Wine Finds for $10-$20 Why not ring in 2021 with something new? Our wine columnist went looking for lesser-known bubblies from unexpected regions and found some remarkable values.
2020-12-22 09:36:00 Business U.S. Postal Service Struggles to Keep Up With Christmas Deliveries Foot traffic at stores dropped on Super Saturday as more shoppers made holiday purchases online
2020-12-22 09:28:00 Economy Stimulus Deal Likely to Spur Faster Economic Growth Later Next Year Additional checks, unemployment benefits and other spending are projected to fuel increased activity after a winter slowdown
2020-12-22 09:18:00 World Covid-19 Variant Could Make Herd Immunity More Difficult, Says BioNTech Vaccine highly likely to be effective against the new coronavirus variant that is quickly spreading across the U.K., says CEO
2020-12-22 09:01:00 Business PPP is Reopening. What’s Different This Time? Second small-business loans will be limited to borrowers with 300 or fewer employees who can show revenue was hurt by the pandemic
2020-12-22 09:00:00 Tech Cheating in Online School? Some Students and Parents Say It’s OK Teachers are changing how they test to counter online cheating; ethicists fear a slippery slope
2020-12-22 09:00:00 CFO Journal U.S. Finance Chiefs Expect Growing Revenue, Wages and Employment Levels in 2021 CFOs forecast their companies’ revenue to rise 6.9% in 2021 after 0.3% gain this year
2020-12-22 08:56:00 Markets Peloton, Apple, FuboTV: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today U.S. stocks edged higher, while exercise-equipment maker Peloton shot higher on news it acquired fitness rival Precor
2020-12-22 08:45:00 Life & Arts The Biggest Star on TV Right Now? Barbour Jackets Featured in buzzy shows from ‘The Crown’ to ‘Industry’ to ‘Succession,’ the 126-year-old British outerwear brand’s outdoorsy coats are being rediscovered by a new generation
2020-12-22 08:41:00 Business Peloton to Acquire Fitness-Equipment Maker Precor for $420 Million Move will help boost manufacturing capacity as the company has been scrambling to meet demand
2020-12-22 08:26:00 Tech Tech Founders Gain More Power as Investors Clamor for New Listings Once-rare dual-share structures have become the norm in a sizzling tech IPO market
2020-12-22 08:03:00 Politics Trump Will Face Different Twitter Rules When He Leaves Office As a public official, Trump tweets with less risk of having his posts taken down or his account suspended. That will change on Jan. 20.
2020-12-22 08:00:00 Real Estate Goldman Unit Makes New Push Into Real Estate With Stake in Sale-Leaseback Firm Oak Street Real Estate Capital is considering expanding its reach now that it has the lender’s backing
2020-12-22 08:00:00 Business Netflix Ups the Ante in Africa Streaming giant invests in the continent, but challenges include piracy, slow internet, poverty
2020-12-22 08:00:00 Real Estate London Development to Test Demand for 15-Minute Cities After Covid-19 Related Cos. leads $6 billion development to transform 180 acres into a walkable urban neighborhood
2020-12-22 07:30:00 CIO Journal Tech Talent Diversity Took on New Urgency in 2020 ‘Enough talk,’ says Maya Leibman, chief information officer at American Airlines
2020-12-22 07:00:00 Markets Investors Turn to Far-Flung Bonds for Juicy Returns Appetite for emerging markets has returned with gusto, enabling Uzbekistan to issue local currency bonds to international investors for the first time
2020-12-22 06:30:00 Markets Banks Need Spenders to Be Stimulated Delinquencies remain quite low by historical standards, but bank investors may prefer people to spend rather than save and pay down debt
2020-12-22 06:02:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: New Covid Strain Can’t Overturn Bullish Narrative Yet, Nursing Homes, Meditation Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2020-12-22 06:00:00 Markets U.S. Economy Gets a Bridge to the Spring Stimulus bill could have been better or earlier, but it will help many through a tough winter
2020-12-22 05:59:00 Markets SoftBank Jumps on the SPAC Bandwagon The only surprise is that it has taken the Japanese technology investor so long to tap the trendy funding channel
2020-12-22 05:35:00 Markets U.S. Stock Futures Waver as Markets Pause Elevated Covid-19 infection levels, the emergence of a new fast-spreading strain of the virus and fresh travel restrictions are weighing on markets this week
2020-12-22 05:30:00 World WeChat Becomes a Powerful Surveillance Tool Everywhere in China The government is increasingly using the app to monitor and suppress dissenting views
2020-12-22 05:30:00 U.S. Wave of Attempted Fraud Hits State Unemployment Claims Programs California expects billions of dollars in losses from prisoner scheme as states collectively receive millions of benefits requests likely tied to fraud
2020-12-22 05:30:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Derivatives Regulator Uses Dodd-Frank Rule to Target Foreign Bribery A first-ever enforcement action by the CFTC targeting foreign corruption lays the groundwork for cases involving other commodities traders
2020-12-22 05:30:00 Derby’s Take: Fed Leaders Drive Home Climate Issues Mostly a Regulatory Concern
2020-12-22 05:30:00 Real Estate Empty Hotels Get Second Life as Tiny Apartments During Pandemic Developers are converting closed hotels and motels into housing, aiming to offer affordable units in hot markets with high rents
2020-12-22 05:30:00 Markets The Soaring Stock Index You’ve Never Heard Of The S&P Completion Index was up 31% this year, doubling the gain of the S&P 500, thanks to Tesla
2020-12-21 22:51:00 Politics SolarWinds Hack Hit Office Home to Top Treasury Department Officials Suspected Russian hack compromised dozens of Treasury Department email accounts, senator says
2020-12-21 21:57:00 Markets Fatal Landslide in Brazil Pushes Iron Ore Toward Record Prices of the steel ingredient rose 7.8% Monday as investors bet on tightening supply at a time of strong demand
2020-12-21 20:00:00 Markets Ripple to Face SEC Suit Over XRP Cryptocurrency Agency, whose chairman is leaving soon, claims the company violated investor-protection laws when it sold the bitcoin-like digital asset
2020-12-21 18:55:00 Business Sinovac’s Covid-19 Vaccine Shown Effective in Brazil Trials Brazil is first country to complete Phase 3 trials of Chinese company’s vaccine; official results due out Wednesday
2020-12-21 18:49:00 Opinion The Martini Lunch Tax Code Trump and the GOP revive the loophole for business meals. It’s bad policy and bad politics.
2020-12-21 18:46:00 Opinion The Year in Space Travel SpaceX keeps making remarkable rocket launches look routine.
2020-12-21 18:44:00 Opinion Trump’s Parting Shot: A Bigger Navy? The U.S. needs more ships to counter China and project power.
2020-12-21 18:42:00 Opinion New York City’s Worst Slumlord Yet another scandal at the nation’s largest housing authority.
2020-12-21 18:38:00 Media & Marketing MGM Holdings, Studio Behind ‘James Bond,’ Explores a Sale Movie studio has tapped bankers to find a buyer, as media companies look to stock up on content
2020-12-21 18:29:00 Opinion Iran Isn’t Afraid of B-52s and Aircraft Carriers The U.S. should redeploy its big guns to counter the conventional threat from Russia and China.
2020-12-21 18:28:00 Opinion USGS Gets Politics Out of Climate Forecasts My agency makes a significant advance in the government’s approach to science.
2020-12-21 18:26:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: The Unwoke Abe Lincoln ‘Lincoln, like the presidents before him and most after, did not show through policy or rhetoric that Black lives ever mattered to them.’
2020-12-21 18:26:00 Opinion Beijing’s Collision With Christians As the faith spreads, the Communist Party fears a threat to its political control.
2020-12-21 18:25:00 Opinion Will Georgia Elect Mitch McConnell? Both parties are saying the stakes are national in the two Jan. 5 Senate runoffs.
2020-12-21 18:24:00 Books ‘The Golden Thread’ Review: Who Killed Dag Hammarskjöld? After his plane crashed, conflicting clues and witnesses emerged and records went missing. It’s one of the unsolved mysteries of our times.
2020-12-21 18:07:00 Business Congress Poised to Raise Standards for Assessing New Airliner Designs Year-end spending bill includes bipartisan provisions toughening FAA oversight of future aircraft models
2020-12-21 17:55:00 Pro Bankruptcy Ex-NBA Player’s Group Named Winning Bidder for Bankrupt Ebony Media The $14 million offer from Ulysses “Junior” Bridgeman was sole serious bid for publisher of Black magazines
2020-12-21 17:51:00 Opinion Biden Gets Vaccine, but Does He Understand It? President-elect still forecasting crisis after his inauguration.
2020-12-21 17:46:00 CMO Today Echo of Coronavirus Didn’t Keep Beer Drinkers From Corona Early headlines suggested that drinkers would hold an unfortunate overlap in names against the brand
2020-12-21 17:44:00 Opinion What Was Bill Barr’s Job and Did He Do It? Ever since he took the job, the attorney general has been the target of harsh attacks from both the left and the right.
2020-12-21 17:43:00 Opinion Dear Andy: Going to Space Helps Us on Earth Walk into any hospital-patient’s room in America and see the life-saving benefit of our space program.
2020-12-21 17:42:00 Opinion Cut Ludwig van Beethoven’s Father Some Slack, Will Ya? Fatherhood is the most thankless of jobs. If you are too hard, you are a tyrant. If you are too soft, you aren’t setting a good example.
2020-12-21 17:05:00 World U.K. Braces for Possible Shortages as France Closes Border to Block New Coronavirus Strain Travel ban on passengers and freight across English Channel threatens trade of up to 10,000 trucks a day
2020-12-21 16:55:00 U.S. New York Sees Boost in Latest Covid-19 Aid Package Metropolitan Transportation Authority, cultural institutions expected to get funding in $900 billion deal
2020-12-21 16:40:00 Politics Joe Biden Receives Covid-19 Vaccine in Public to Reassure Its Safety President-elect got the first of two shots during a televised appearance from Delaware hospital
2020-12-21 16:35:00 World Bomb-Maker Admitted to Building Device Used in 1988 Lockerbie Explosion, U.S. Prosecutors Say Officials seek to bring suspect who allegedly made bombs for Moammar Gadhafi to U.S. to face trial
2020-12-21 16:26:00 Film Review ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Review: Wishfulness Run Riot Gal Gadot returns as the Amazon hero in a chaotic follow-up to the 2017 hit.
2020-12-21 16:26:00 Logistics Report Temperature-Tracking Tools Take Center Stage in Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout Devices ranging from sophisticated sensors to heat-sensitive labels help ensure the fragile doses are maintained at the right levels in high-stakes supply chains
2020-12-21 15:12:00 Economy Second Stimulus Checks: When Will They Arrive, How Much Will They Be? Congress is poised to authorize another round of direct payments to households. There are a few key changes from the spring payments.
2020-12-21 13:57:00 Risk & Compliance Journal U.K. Regulator Fines Charles Schwab Unit $12.1 Million Over Client Assets The Financial Conduct Authority said the company carried out a regulated activity without the proper permission
2020-12-21 13:54:00 Politics Texas Challenges Legality of DACA in Latest Bid to End the Program Judge to revisit case over Obama-era program, leaving young immigrants who benefit from its protections in legal limbo
2020-12-21 13:49:00 Politics Covid-19 Aid Package Set for Final Votes in House, Senate Legislation includes $600 checks for many Americans, $300 a week in extra jobless aid, funding for vaccine distribution
2020-12-21 13:42:00 Life & Arts Chopped Steak With Garlic and Rosemary Chopped up and formed into patties along with capers, mustard and garlic, beef sirloin gets a good, crispy sear on the outside and remains pink and succulent within
2020-12-21 13:38:00 Politics Barr Won’t Appoint Special Counsel to Probe Vote-Fraud Claims or Hunter Biden Attorney general says he believes the investigation into President-elect Joe Biden’s son is ‘being handled responsibly and professionally’
2020-12-21 13:30:00 Life & Arts A Great Way to Cook Steak at Home, According to a Top Chef Chopped up and formed into patties along with capers, mustard and garlic, beef sirloin gets a good, crispy sear on the outside and remains pink and succulent within
2020-12-21 12:59:00 Politics House Panel Subpoenas HHS, CDC Heads in Coronavirus Probe Committee seeks documents in investigation of allegations of political interference in CDC’s pandemic response
2020-12-21 12:16:00 Markets Tesla Stock Slides on First Day of Trading in S&P 500 The slump suggests some investors were cashing out following the electric-car maker’s addition to the S&P 500
2020-12-21 12:14:00 Business Companies Have Promised $35 Billion Toward Racial Equity. Where Is the Money Going? Corporations say they are using their financial might to narrow racial wealth and opportunity gap; tracking those efforts can be tough
2020-12-21 12:10:00 Opinion A Pandemic of Misinformation The media’s politicization of Covid has proved deadly and puts Americans’ freedoms at risk.
2020-12-21 12:01:00 Deals Thoma Bravo Agrees to Buy RealPage for $9.6 Billion Private-equity firm reaches deal with provider of technology platform used by owners and managers of rental properties
2020-12-21 11:57:00 Opinion How the Woke Stole Christmas Cotton Mather deplored ‘masking’ but otherwise sounds a lot like 2020’s coronavirus commissars.
2020-12-21 11:50:00 Life & Arts From Jackie O to Rihanna, the Ultimate Guide to Classic Style What constitutes a fashion classic? The term is often used indiscriminately, but this (admittedly subjective) A-Z guide—featuring Chanel suits, Hermès bags, blue jeans and much more—might help.
2020-12-21 11:50:00 Life & Arts Experimental Drugs Aim to Treat Long-Haul Covid Patients People suffering from debilitating symptoms for months after getting sick with Covid could get some relief if drugs prove effective in trials
2020-12-21 11:42:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Danske Bank Cleared of U.S. Sanctions Liability for Estonia Scandal The U.S. Treasury Department’s sanctions watchdog has closed an investigation into the Danish lender
2020-12-21 11:01:00 World Anti-Semitic Tweets Targeting Miss France Contestant Spark Investigation April Benayoum spoke about father’s Israeli background during televised pageant
2020-12-21 11:00:00 U.S. Indian Health Service Improves on Sexual-Abuse Safeguards, Report Finds Health-care agency still must do more to encourage staff to report suspected abuse, officials say
2020-12-21 10:52:00 Life & Arts Feeling Depressed? Bacteria in Your Gut May Be to Blame New studies point to the trillions of organisms in the human microbiome as playing an unexpectedly huge role in our well-being
2020-12-21 10:36:00 Politics Biden Talks Up Bipartisanship; He Has Three Good Reasons Democrats and Republicans are sharply divided, but the president-elect has ways to forge consensus
2020-12-21 10:27:00 Life & Arts Do You Need to Shower Every Day? Here’s what doctors say about the effect of frequent showers on your health and your skin
2020-12-21 10:12:00 Politics Mnuchin Says Stimulus Payments to Households Could Come Next Week Checks would be part of the Covid-19 aid deal that is set to be passed by Congress
2020-12-21 10:09:00 World Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine Is Cleared for Use by EU Drug Agency European Medicines Agency recommends authorization for the shot, clearing way for formal approval this week
2020-12-21 09:58:00 Life & Arts College Football’s Playoff: Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State, Notre Dame…and No Surprises After a chaotic season on the brink, the final four is very familiar
2020-12-21 09:52:00 World Pope Francis Warns Against Division in Response to Vatican Scandals Pontiff says bad news shouldn’t discourage church after a year dogged by crises
2020-12-21 09:47:00 World German Yom Kippur Shooter Sentenced to Life German court hands highest available sentence to man who killed two in attack on synagogue in 2019
2020-12-21 09:36:00 Business Why Many Bosses Won’t Require Workers to Get the Covid-19 Vaccine Companies plan to encourage, incentivize vaccination; ‘Here is the carrot, and here is the stick’
2020-12-21 09:30:00 World U.S. Evidence Against Mexican Ex-Defense Minister Raises Conviction Doubts The case that Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos took bribes from drug cartels is largely circumstantial, people in both countries say, clouding chances of a conviction in Mexico
2020-12-21 09:16:00 Politics Biden Adds New Members to His White House Economic Team President-elect hires David Kamin, a former Obama administration budget official, and Bharat Ramamurti, a longtime aide to Sen. Elizabeth Warren
2020-12-21 09:12:00 Life & Arts George Clooney Cuts His Own Hair. Should You? With many barber shops open again, some men have raced back to professional trimmers, while others plan to keep shearing their own strands. We debate each approach’s merits.
2020-12-21 08:51:00 World Denmark to Dig Up Millions of Dead Mink After Botched Covid-19 Cull The mink carcasses will be incinerated over fears they could contaminate water supplies
2020-12-21 08:37:00 Markets New Covid-19 Strain Can’t Overturn Bullish Market Narrative Yet Selloff in risky assets is predictable reaction to coronavirus strain, but for now the news doesn’t justify a more negative outlook
2020-12-21 08:32:00 Politics What Is in the $900 Billion Covid-19 Aid Bill Stimulus checks, jobless aid, PPP small-business loans among relief set to be passed by Congress
2020-12-21 08:08:00 Markets Tesla, Zoom, Nike: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today U.S. stock futures tumbled as a new coronavirus strain triggered travel curbs and hit shares of American Airlines, Delta and Boeing
2020-12-21 07:55:00 Life & Arts Ugly Christmas Sweaters: Holiday Fun or Commercialized Insanity? The spread of tacky holiday sweaters emblazoned with movie gags, corporation logos and dirty slogans has turned this once-quaint phenomenon into an overwhelming marketplace
2020-12-21 07:53:00 Markets Oil Prices Tumble as New Coronavirus Strain Sparks Travel Restrictions Countries across Europe and beyond barr travelers from the U.K. to curtail the spread of a highly infectious variant of the coronavirus
2020-12-21 07:30:00 CIO Journal Under Covid’s Pall, CIOs Looked to Employees’ Emotional Health in 2020 ‘The new approach for CIOs must be technology plus empathy,’ said Carol Juel, CIO of Synchrony Financial
2020-12-21 07:30:00 Markets Booking Investors Should Have More Reservations Online travel agent’s shares have risen even though its business has crashed this year and a years-long recovery is in store
2020-12-21 07:30:00 CIO Journal Less Meeting, More Meditation Finding the right (remote) work-life balance takes work, CIOs find
2020-12-21 07:00:00 Politics For Attorney General William Barr, New Lockerbie Charges Punctuate a Decadeslong Mission Signal terrorism case resurfaces on 32nd anniversary of airline bombing that killed 270 people
2020-12-21 07:00:00 U.S. Superpedestrian Gets $60 Million Funding Boost in New York Push Electric-scooter firm eyes dozens of new markets as Citigroup, others invest
2020-12-21 06:33:00 Business Shell Signals Another Poor Quarter for Oil Majors Energy giant warns of third-consecutive quarterly loss for its oil-and-gas production business, and a further write-down
2020-12-21 06:30:00 Logistics Report Supply-Chain Technology Provider Project44 Gains $100 Million in New Backing Latest funding round will support expansion of the company’s visibility platform, boosting its services and geographic reach on the way to possible public offering
2020-12-21 06:02:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Fractional Shares, Ad Fraud Scheme, Hawaii Covid Rules Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2020-12-21 06:00:00 Life & Arts The New York Jets Won a Game—and May Have Lost Trevor Lawrence Finishing the season winless, to secure the No. 1 pick in the draft, was the best move for the Jets’ future. They beat the Los Angeles Rams instead.
2020-12-21 06:00:00 Markets The Flood Gates Still Aren’t Open for Banks—Yet The Federal Reserve is letting banks pay out more to shareholders, but likely not enough to sop up big excess capital buffers that drag on returns
2020-12-21 06:00:00 National Security SolarWinds Hack Victims: From Tech Companies to a Hospital and University A Wall Street Journal analysis identified at least 24 organizations that installed software laced with malicious code by Russian hackers
2020-12-21 05:33:00 Markets Fracking: From Breaking Shale to Breaking Even Understanding the mechanics and economics of fracking can help investors understand the dizzyingly cyclical nature of energy markets
2020-12-21 05:31:00 Markets Global Stocks Drop, Oil Tumbles on Fresh Travel Bans Travel bans designed to stop a fast-spreading coronavirus variant from the U.K. hit U.S. stock futures and European shares, while prompting a sharp drop in oil
2020-12-21 05:30:00 Markets China’s Liquor Giants Intoxicate Investors Baijiu makers Kweichow Moutai and Wuliangye Yibin are riding a hot streak thanks to China’s growing thirst for pricier drinks
2020-12-21 05:30:00 Risk & Compliance Journal MoneyGram, After Spending Millions on Compliance, Wants Stronger Due-Diligence Rule The money-transfer company supports a proposal to broaden the scope of transactions for which institutions need to collect and pass along information
2020-12-21 05:30:00 CFO Journal Companies’ Internal Auditors Test Earlier for Covid-Related, Other Risks The departments tasked with assessing corporate risks are dealing with a wider range of them
2020-12-21 05:27:00 Markets U.K. Assets Fall Over Deadlocked Brexit Talks, New Lockdowns British pound on course for its worst day against the dollar since March
2020-12-21 04:39:00 Markets Luxury Brands Will Go Shopping Again Next year, powerful labels will face their old dilemma of what to do with excess cash
2020-12-20 22:31:00 Politics Brewers, Restaurants, Federal Workers Set for Tax Wins in Congressional Deal Congress is likely to prevent alcohol taxes from rising Jan. 1 while offering a business-meals deduction President Trump sought
2020-12-20 20:00:00 Life & Arts The Unfinished Business of Office Diversity Training Companies announced major diversity initiatives amid last summer’s protests—half a year later, progress has been inconsistent
2020-12-20 18:39:00 Politics Congress Reaches Final Agreement on Pandemic Relief Package will contain $600 checks for many Americans, $300-a-week in extra jobless aid and help for schools, vaccine distribution and small businesses
2020-12-20 17:50:00 Opinion Covid Political Relief Another spending blowout, but at least it has limits on the Fed.
2020-12-20 17:49:00 Opinion Trump’s Bad Exit As his days in office dwindle, he’s making everything about him.
2020-12-20 17:48:00 Opinion Education Rescue in Providence Rhode Island allows more charter schools after union failures.
2020-12-20 16:30:00 Opinion Why Are Covid Antibody Drugs Sitting on Shelves? Strapped hospitals are struggling to set up infusion sites. But states and the feds can help.
2020-12-20 16:29:00 Opinion Online Class and False ADHD Diagnoses Children under 10 can’t be expected to stare at a computer for hours.
2020-12-20 16:29:00 Opinion The Military Learned to Stop the Bleeding Many civilian lives could be saved by using tourniquets.
2020-12-20 16:28:00 Opinion How Tech Got Ready for 2020 Breakthroughs like video calling and quick delivery are part of a quest for convenience.
2020-12-20 16:26:00 Opinion Cuba’s San Isidro Uprising There has been organized dissent for decades. This time could be different.
2020-12-20 16:25:00 Books ‘The Sphinx’ Review: The Riddle in Her Eyes An American beauty who might have stepped out of a Henry James novel, Gladys Deacon beguiled artists and aristocrats alike.
2020-12-20 15:00:00 Economy Economy Week Ahead: Housing, Consumer Spending and Jobless Claims A holiday-shortened week offers an array of data likely to confirm the U.S. economic recovery is slowing
2020-12-20 14:46:00 World Countries Ban Travel From U.K. in Race to Block New Covid-19 Strain Germany, France, Spain, Italy and Israel on Sunday were set to join the Netherlands and Belgium, which hours earlier had prohibited passenger air travel from Britain
2020-12-20 14:19:00 Business ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Opens Overseas to Sparse Crowds as Covid-19 Spreads Key international markets like the U.K. and Brazil confront surging coronavirus numbers
2020-12-20 13:24:00 Deals FIS, Global Payments Held Unsuccessful Talks to Merge Deal could have been valued at around $70 billion as payments industry continues wave of consolidations
2020-12-20 13:05:00 Life & Arts College Football Playoff Is Set: Alabama vs. Notre Dame; Clemson vs. Ohio State In a season filled with chaos and surprise, the final four teams are the biggest names in the sport
2020-12-20 12:45:00 Business Senate Panel Rebukes FAA in Wake of Boeing 737 MAX Tragedies Commerce committee details agency lapses policing airlines and pilots, retaliation against those raising safety concerns
2020-12-20 12:33:00 Tech Jack Ma Makes Ant Offer to Placate Chinese Regulators Trying to salvage his relationship with regulators in a Nov. 2 meeting, the Chinese billionaire said he was ready to do what the country needed
2020-12-20 12:13:00 Opinion No More Generals Atop the Pentagon I voted to exempt Jim Mattis from the law but won’t repeat that mistake with Lloyd Austin.
2020-12-20 12:11:00 Opinion The Cyber Threat Is Real and Growing The U.S. must respond proportionally to the SolarWinds breach—and prepare for the next attack.
2020-12-20 12:00:00 U.S. Race Is Key Issue as California Governor Picks Harris’s Senate Replacement Some urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to appoint state’s first Latino senator, while others say Black woman should get role
2020-12-20 11:11:00 Opinion We’ll Keep Wishing You a ‘Merry Christmas’ Awkward moments with some nonbelievers or people with other religious beliefs tend to be brief and manageable. No harm, no foul.
2020-12-20 11:09:00 Opinion The Continuing Saga of Fannie and Freddie Without appropriate oversight these companies could easily repeat the mistakes that put them in conservatorship in the first place.
2020-12-20 11:03:00 Opinion What the Election Revealed About Our Institutions’ Health Our system can withstand attempts to subvert fair elections and the rule of law.
2020-12-20 10:00:00 U.S. In Connecticut, Covid-19 Forces One in Three Small Businesses to Close Vaccine lifts hope, but hundreds of small business owners will struggle to make it through the winter and spring
2020-12-20 09:50:00 Life & Arts The Buffalo Bills Have Won the AFC East. This Isn’t a Misprint. A resurgent franchise takes its first divisional title in a quarter-century. The playoffs await.
2020-12-20 09:00:00 Tech Food Delivery Fees: How to Avoid the $18 Burger You can lower your delivery costs by signing up for an app’s monthly membership—or by contacting your favorite restaurants directly
2020-12-20 09:00:00 Life & Arts A Christmas Star? Jupiter and Saturn Alignment Sparks Comparisons Solar system’s two largest planets have only twice appeared this close in the past 800 years
2020-12-20 08:00:00 Life & Arts An Olympics Power Player Faces Scrutiny Over Dual Roles Australia’s John Coates holds key positions at both the Olympics and the world’s top sports court, whose ruling on Russian doping sparked outrage
2020-12-20 08:00:00 Life & Arts How Overloaded Employees Can Cut Out the Busy Work Staffers working remotely during the Covid pandemic are getting the boss’s blessing to jettison routine tasks that feel like a waste of time
2020-12-20 05:30:00 Economy How 2020 Whipsawed Economists Faced with an unprecedented pandemic, forecasters went from too sanguine to too pessimistic
2020-12-20 05:30:00 Tech Chip Giants Intel and Nvidia Face New Threats From Amazon to Google to Apple Custom chip making has exploded at large tech companies, driven by expanding balance sheets and the growth of AI
2020-12-20 05:30:00 Business Restaurant Safety Net Frays as Covid-19 Pandemic Progresses to Winter Independent operators say there are dwindling options for financial help in the new year
2020-12-19 18:28:00 Politics Defense Officials Push Proposal to Separate NSA, Cyber Command Proposal to split control of the two agencies before end of Trump administration faces resistance from lawmakers
2020-12-19 16:29:00 Politics Pompeo Blames Russia for Hack as Trump Casts Doubt on Widespread Conclusion There is a growing consensus in Washington that Russia is very likely responsible
2020-12-19 15:28:00 Politics Amid Vaccine Rollout and Historic Hack, Trump Remains Focused on Reversing Election The president has been largely out of sight, paying little public attention to any events other than his efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s victory
2020-12-19 15:06:00 Politics Senate Leaders Urge Compromise to Finish Coronavirus Relief Deal Saturday Lawmakers hope to complete work on a $900 billion package
2020-12-19 14:42:00 World U.K. Imposes Fresh Lockdowns to Curb New Covid-19 Strain Tougher restrictions in London and surrounding areas of England mean many families won’t be allowed to gather for Christmas
2020-12-19 14:03:00 World French Prosecutors Bring Rape Charges Against Epstein Associate Modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel is now under the authority of three investigating magistrates
2020-12-19 12:01:00 Life & Arts The Darker Side of Christmas In many times and places, the joyful holiday has been a time for melancholy reflections and ghostly visitations.
2020-12-19 12:00:00 Tech Joe Biden’s 5 Tech Priorities The incoming administration faces decisions about which Trump-era policies to continue and fresh challenges of its own
2020-12-19 12:00:00 The Captain Class After Covid Took His Father, a Hospital Boss Leans on His Wisdom ‘Stay humble and keep your head down.’ Tony Slonim sought guidance in memories of conversations.
2020-12-19 12:00:00 Personal Board of Directors The Venture Capitalist Harnessing a New Brand of Capitalism to Combat Poverty Acumen CEO Jacqueline Novogratz relies on a ‘kitchen cabinet’ of advisors as her firm invests in startups tackling problems faced by low-income communities
2020-12-19 12:00:00 Business For Small Firms, Covid-19 Cuts Deeper; ‘It’s Getting Worse Every Day’ Performing-arts companies, travel agencies and bowling alleys are among the biggest losers, according to government data
2020-12-19 10:48:00 Markets Here’s a Market Forecast: 2021 Will Be Hard to Predict The lesson of 2020 is that even correctly predicting fundamentals isn’t enough
2020-12-19 10:22:00 Markets The World’s Largest Sovereign-Wealth Fund Weighs a More Active Approach Three months into running Norway’s $1.3 trillion fund, Nicolai Tangen grapples with public scrutiny and joins the active versus passive debate
2020-12-19 10:22:00 Frontiers Blog Emerging and Growth Markets, December 19th 2020
2020-12-19 10:00:00 Markets Wonder Woman’s Riskiest Mission Yet The economics of making megabudget blockbusters work for streaming are tricky
2020-12-19 09:28:00 World Indian iPhone Factory Apologizes to Workers for Mishandling Wages Angry workers had damaged a Wistron assembly plant, which Apple has since put on probation for violating its code of conduct
2020-12-19 09:00:00 Politics Biden’s Secretary of State Pick Antony Blinken to Face GOP Scrutiny Republican senators are expected to ask whether new administration will return to policies they opposed under Obama
2020-12-19 09:00:00 World New Covid-19 Surge Sweeps Across Latin America Hard-hit region sees sharp increases in cases and deaths, even in nations spared earlier waves
2020-12-19 08:00:00 World With Ski Resorts Closed Across Europe, Die-Hards Descend on Switzerland Resisting pressure to close resorts in pandemic, the country says it can make skiing safe
2020-12-19 08:00:00 Life & Arts What to Wear to Get Ahead in Finance—According to HBO’s ‘Industry’ The show, streaming now on HBO Max, reveals the many unwritten rules of dressing for success in investment banking for both men and women
2020-12-19 07:00:00 Art Review ‘Salman Toor: How Will I Know’ Review: A Contemporary Painter’s Poignant Scenes A Whitney Museum exhibition spotlights the Pakistani-American artist, whose deft depictions of young gay men signal hope for the future of figurative painting.
2020-12-19 07:00:00 Opinion Judy Garland’s Good Tidings When Garland sang ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’ in a film more than 75 years ago, she was consoling a nation at war; today, the song speaks as powerfully to a country beleaguered by Covid-19.
2020-12-19 05:30:00 Tech Meet the Lawyer Trying to Keep Google From Being Broken Up With antitrust challenges intensifying, longtime executive Kent Walker is now big man on company campus
2020-12-19 05:30:00 Business PPP Borrowers Stand to Gain Tax Deductions Congress considers countermanding Treasury with tax benefits worth hundreds of billions of dollars for business owners
2020-12-18 21:11:00 Corrections Corrections & Amplifications
2020-12-18 20:39:00 U.S. Moderna’s Covid-19 Vaccine Is Cleared for American Use Vaccinations with the shot, the second to gain FDA permission, could start as soon as Monday
2020-12-18 20:29:00 Markets Tesla Shares Hit Record After Last-Minute Surge Ahead of S&P 500 Debut Electric-car maker has soared into ranks of most valuable U.S. companies; shares closed at $695
2020-12-18 20:24:00 Markets Treasury Department Proposes New Requirements on Cryptocurrency Transactions Proposed regulations seek to hold entities that transact in cryptocurrencies to same standards required of traditional financial institutions
2020-12-18 20:17:00 Markets Moderna, Exxon, Alphabet, Amazon: Stocks That Defined the Week Here are seven major companies whose stocks moved on the week’s business news
2020-12-18 19:48:00 U.S. Moderna’s Covid-19 Vaccine: When Can You Get It and How Effective Is It? People could start getting doses within days, though it would take well into 2021 for most to get access
2020-12-18 19:24:00 Business Fiat Chrysler’s Mike Manley to Lead Americas After PSA Merger North American operations of Fiat Chrysler have offset losses racked up in other parts of world
2020-12-18 18:46:00 Economy Christopher Waller Sworn In as Newest Fed Governor The economist becomes the fifth member of the body nominated to his or her current position by President Trump
2020-12-18 18:35:00 Opinion Beijing Tests Joe Biden Will the President-elect speak up about China’s jailing of Jimmy Lai?
2020-12-18 18:33:00 Opinion The Court Stands on Principle The Justices toss a census case ginned up by Democratic states.
2020-12-18 18:31:00 Opinion Russia’s SolarWinds Hack Are U.S. cyber defenses the equivalent of the Maginot Line in 1940?
2020-12-18 18:31:00 Tech Zoom Executive in China Charged With Disrupting Tiananmen Memorials U.S. prosecutors say Xinjiang Jin worked with Chinese intelligence in a case highlighting the challenge of operating in the U.S. and China
2020-12-18 18:22:00 Books ‘The Knowledge Machine’ Review: Science’s Stubborn Majesty Why the ‘iron apparatus’ of the scientific method counts for more than any single genius.
2020-12-18 18:20:00 Business Nike Powers Through Pandemic With Digital Push Sportswear giant reports higher profit and revenue, boosted by China and 84% jump in digital sales
2020-12-18 17:44:00 Opinion A California Plan to Chase Away the Rich, Then Keep Stalking Them A proposed wealth tax would apply for a decade to anyone who spends 60 days in the state in a single year.
2020-12-18 17:43:00 Opinion Biden Is a Climate Dead End Green pork will do less good than getting out of the way for energy technology and investment.
2020-12-18 17:42:00 Books Politics: The Experts and the Pandemic In the fight to control Covid-19, public fears and policymakers’ hubris make a powerful combination.
2020-12-18 17:40:00 Books ‘Intimations’ Review: Scenes from a Global Humbling From solitary suffering to madness in company, Zadie Smith traces the pandemic’s marks on the human heart.
2020-12-18 17:10:00 Tech Google’s New Perk: Free, Weekly Covid-19 Testing for Employees Search giant rolls out testing to work-from-home staff; website crashes
2020-12-18 17:06:00 Politics Biden Team Says It Is Facing Transition ‘Resistance’ from Pentagon Pentagon says it wanted a ‘pause’ in transition meetings for the holidays
2020-12-18 17:00:00 Economy Fed Stress Tests Show U.S. Banks Can Withstand Covid-19 Pandemic Central bank adds that banks can restart share buybacks, with limits, and continues to cap dividends
2020-12-18 16:50:00 Life & Arts The Martini’s Contribution to Civilization The cocktail was invented in the U.S., but it soon became a worldwide symbol of sophistication.
2020-12-18 16:28:00 Markets JPMorgan Chase Board Member Lee Raymond to Leave Former Exxon Mobil chief has been lead independent director at the bank since 2001
2020-12-18 16:24:00 Politics Congressional Leaders Plan to Bring Up Two-Day Spending Patch Short-term bill would fund government through Dec. 20 as negotiations continue over coronavirus relief package
2020-12-18 16:19:00 Tech Google’s Trial in Justice Department’s Antitrust Case Set for September 2023 DOJ case now involves 14 states; new lawsuit by 35 other states could land on same schedule
2020-12-18 16:18:00 Business New York Times Points to Problems With ‘Caliphate’ Podcast, Plans to Reassign Reporter Publication says in lengthy editor’s note that insufficient checking was ‘institutional failing’
2020-12-18 16:14:00 Markets Fed’s Kaplan Says It Will Be Time to Taper Bond Buying When Economy Is Clearly Recovering The Dallas Fed president said he remains concerned extended periods of bond buying could bring problems
2020-12-18 15:54:00 Media & Marketing From BuzzFeed to Axios, Digital Media Players Prepare for Deal Frenzy Big players explore acquiring rivals and going public through blank-check companies
2020-12-18 15:35:00 Markets Aluminum Prices Push Toward 2020 High on Sanction Worries, Demand The metal has gained more than 13% year-to-date
2020-12-18 15:26:00 Politics Supreme Court Puts Off Ruling on Whether to Count Immigrants in U.S. Illegally in Census Trump administration wanted to exclude group from population count, which is used for congressional redistricting
2020-12-18 15:08:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Potential for Monetary Award in Anti-Money Laundering Whistleblower Program Draws Concerns Some companies say prospect of financial benefit to compliance professionals for reporting possible violations could weaken compliance programs
2020-12-18 14:49:00 Politics Biden’s Health-Secretary Pick Becerra Plans Focus on Covid—if He Gets the Job California attorney general faces GOP critics who say he’s too pro-abortion rights and too inexperienced in health care for the post
2020-12-18 14:37:00 Opinion Obama Wins Another Round Against Community Organizers The former president should thank the current one for helping him build in Chicago.
2020-12-18 14:33:00 Business Chip Shortage Slows Global Auto Recovery Volkswagen plans to curb production as chip makers struggle to meet demand, pointing to potentially uneven economic rebound next year
2020-12-18 14:16:00 Masterpiece An Album to Liberate a Genre ‘Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation by the Ornette Coleman Double Quartet’ was and remains a radical recording thanks to an unencumbered exchange of sonic ideas among a bevy of talented musicians.
2020-12-18 14:13:00 Opinion William Barr: ‘One Standard of Justice’ The departing attorney general talks about John Durham, Robert Mueller, Hunter Biden, Mike Flynn and the flak he’s taken from both parties.
2020-12-18 14:13:00 Opinion Scenes From Pompeii—or Maybe My Abandoned Manhattan Office Notes, empty yogurt containers—all left behind in March as colleagues fled. Will we return soon?
2020-12-18 14:02:00 Markets Santa Claus Is the Original Bagholder ’Tis the season to cash in some stock-market winnings on bullish day-trader swag
2020-12-18 13:59:00 Life & Arts The Unsettling Confrontations of Artist Yoshitomo Nara Two U.S. exhibitions explore the work of the Japanese artist, who combines childlike cuteness with adult anger and pain.
2020-12-18 13:26:00 Tech ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ Is Taken Off PlayStation Store, Players Offered Refunds Videogame developer plans to release major updates in January and February
2020-12-18 12:48:00 Politics Computer Hack Blamed on Russia Tests Limits of U.S. Response It appears spying, not destruction, was the aim; U.S. officials have yet to define precise impact of the suspected Kremlin intrusion
2020-12-18 12:01:00 Markets Tesla Joins the S&P 500: Five Things to Watch Traders are bracing for big swings in stock, options markets ahead of electric-car maker’s addition to index Monday
2020-12-18 12:00:00 Tech What to Do Before You Die: A Tech Checklist What happens to your Facebook and Google accounts—and other digital stuff—when you die? Nothing if you don’t make a plan.
2020-12-18 11:57:00 Books ‘Mozart’ Review: The Composer as Novelist Mozart may be famed as a prodigy, but Jan Swafford celebrates his apprehension of humanity in full.
2020-12-18 11:49:00 Life & Arts Foundation Chief Andrew Delbanco Wants All Students to Wrestle With Great Books The professor and author hopes to expand humanities offerings on campus, even for scientists and engineers
2020-12-18 11:32:00 Markets After Universal Music, What Will Vivendi’s Encore Be? Shareholders have little choice but to trust billionaire backer Vincent Bolloré as the French media giant slowly moves toward an IPO of its most successful asset
2020-12-18 11:32:00 Books Mysteries: Locking Up the Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller is back, but instead of working from his car, he’s in a cell.
2020-12-18 11:11:00 Markets Investors Risk Over-Ordering Restaurant Stocks Wall Street is unconcerned by falling sales, but might be placing too much faith in a rosy spring
2020-12-18 11:05:00 U.S. NYPD Faulted in Handling of George Floyd Protests Watchdog agency said officers’ actions heightened tension at demonstrations
2020-12-18 11:00:00 Markets I’ll Take Tesla Stock for $1, Please Fractional shares are a new way for investors to own a small slice of a high-priced stock. Whether that’s good or bad depends on how you use it.
2020-12-18 10:58:00 Books Fiction: Uncanny Revolutions A tale of conspiracy and dreams, a story of high-stakes board games and a catalog of fools.
2020-12-18 10:54:00 Books ‘Wild Minds’ Review: Animation’s Golden Age In playful abstractions and sumptuous fantasies, a generation of animators explored the subversive possibilities of cartoons.
2020-12-18 10:52:00 Life & Arts For NASA, It Should Be Mars or Bust After decades of nostalgia for the Apollo program, it’s time for NASA to send astronauts on a radical new adventure, worthy of America’s pioneering spirit
2020-12-18 10:46:00 Books ‘The Janus Point’ Review: Double Time A new theory of the nature of time rethinks the Big Bang not as an origin, but a midpoint.
2020-12-18 10:43:00 Books Five Best: Memoirs of the Scottish Highlands Selected by Annalena McAfee, author of the novel ‘Nightshade.’
2020-12-18 10:38:00 Books ‘Heinrich Heine’ Review: Song of the Outsider A passionate champion of German language and legend, he was prescient about the historical nightmares to come.
2020-12-18 10:34:00 Books Children’s Books: One Famous Fox The tricky figure of Reynard carries with him the flavor of an older and wilder world of story.
2020-12-18 10:33:00 Opinion Slow Down the Campaign Against Facebook Why is the government targeting Big Tech? ‘Because that’s where the money is.’
2020-12-18 10:28:00 Opinion Margaret Chase Smith’s Legacy Is Contested The moderate Republican got along with Democrats, but this did little to change what happened in Congress.
2020-12-18 10:22:00 Opinion More Hunting Is Good News for Wildlife Conservation The sale of hunting licenses, tags and stamps is also the primary source of funding for state wildlife agencies.
2020-12-18 09:42:00 Life & Arts Helping Workers Displaced By the Covid-19 Economy Job retraining programs have been largely ineffective in the past, but new private and public initiatives are using innovative strategies to assist the unemployed.
2020-12-18 09:03:00 World North Korea’s Economy Hit Harder Than It Has Been in Decades Kim Jong Un’s regime has further isolated the country due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and trade with China has plunged
2020-12-18 08:43:00 Life & Arts Hawaii Opens to Tourists Again, But Beware the Covid Hurdles The Aloha State relaxed its entry regulations in the fall, but the pandemic rules are stricter than in most other states and change frequently
2020-12-18 08:35:00 Abortion, Guns and Trump: A Church Group Tries to Navigate America’s Divisions Calvary Christian Reformed in suburban Michigan seeks understanding through dialogue; ‘my soul is hurting’
2020-12-18 08:34:00 U.S. Teachers Vie for Covid-19 Vaccine Priority Some argue educators should be among the first in line after front-line health-care workers and residents of long-term care facilities
2020-12-18 08:17:00 Politics Pence Gets Covid-19 Vaccine Amid National Immunization Campaign Top administration officials weigh setting example against appearing privileged
2020-12-18 07:58:00 Markets FedEx, Tesla, Five9: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today U.S stock futures were muted after the S&P 500 yesterday hit another record
2020-12-18 07:57:00 World China to Vaccinate 50 Million People With Its Covid-19 Shots Country gears up for a large-scale rollout of Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccines in coming weeks
2020-12-18 07:55:00 Life & Arts At Stanford, and in Women’s College Basketball, Tara VanDerveer Stands Alone A head coach hits a history-making mark amid a pandemic-disrupted season
2020-12-18 07:35:00 Business Tencent Doubles Stake in Universal Music, Home to Billie Eilish and the Beatles Deal bolsters Chinese internet giant’s growing presence in the record industry and its exposure to some of the biggest names in music
2020-12-18 07:30:00 CIO Journal How CIOs in 2020 Rallied Their Companies Around Remote Work IT experts say their responsibility around remote work didn’t end at enabling technology
2020-12-18 06:17:00 World Australia’s Covid-19 Defenses Have a Weakness: Aircrews Authorities will require pilots and flight attendants to isolate at hotels under police guard amid a fresh coronavirus outbreak in the country’s largest city.
2020-12-18 06:02:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Food-Delivery Risks, Streaming TV Ad Fraud, Private-Equity Debt Build Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2020-12-18 06:00:00 Life & Arts How the Tour de France Winners Secured Some of the First Vaccines in Sports The UAE Team is due to receive the Chinese Sinopharm shot in Abu Dhabi in January
2020-12-18 06:00:00 Logistics Report Logistics Set for Moderna Covid-19 Vaccine’s Rollout The operation is supposed to be bigger than the Pfizer rollout and will build on the U.S. government’s strategy used during the H1N1 pandemic
2020-12-18 05:40:00 Markets How Covid-19 Has Reshaped the Economy’s Balance Sheet The economy has a lot of new debt but even more cash, making a ‘balance-sheet recession’ less likely than after 2008
2020-12-18 05:30:00 CFO Journal Eaton’s CFO Looks Back on 71 Acquisitions, 50 Sales Over His Tenure Richard Fearon played a role in shaping Eaton as a power-management company
2020-12-18 05:30:00 Politics State Party Democrats Look to Avoid Obama-Era Repeat Focus is on organizing around local and state races that are crucial to controlling more levers of power
2020-12-18 05:30:00 Business Moderna’s Covid-19 Vaccine Could Widen Immunization Effort The vaccine can be more easily shipped and handled than Pfizer’s, helping smaller hospitals and rural areas overcome logistical hurdles
2020-12-18 05:30:00 Markets Infrastructure-Investment Binge Is Set to Continue—With or Without Washington Outlook for a sweeping infrastructure bill in the Biden administration is uncertain, but private-sector deals and fundraising are humming
2020-12-18 05:30:00 Markets For America’s Economy This Winter, a Covid Freeze and Then a Vaccine Thaw The beginning of winter will be miserable for the U.S. economy, but things could be looking much brighter by March
2020-12-18 05:16:00 Markets Stock Futures Waver as Stimulus Talks Continue Shares close at record highs Thursday as lawmakers closed in on a coronavirus relief package
2020-12-18 05:12:00 Tech U.S. Blacklists China’s Top Chip Maker, Escalating Tech Fight SMIC among more than 60 Chinese institutions added to the entity list restricting access to American technology
2020-12-18 04:57:00 Markets Five Years On, China’s World Bank Challenger Has Fallen Short of Lofty Predictions
2020-12-17 21:42:00 Markets Government Leaders Clash Over Next Step for Trump’s Ban on Chinese Stocks Fight over Trump’s executive order pits Treasury, Wall Street against State Department, Pentagon
2020-12-17 21:38:00 Politics Mitch McConnell Among First in Congress Slated to Get Covid-19 Vaccine Lawmakers have debated whether they should be inoculated ahead of the general public
2020-12-17 20:07:00 World Nigerian Boys Taken in Kidnapping Claimed by Boko Haram Are Freed More than 300 schoolboys kidnapped in northern Nigeria have been handed over to security agencies, says Katsina governor
2020-12-17 19:59:00 Pro VC New Money Chat Service Discord Doubles Valuation to $7 Billion The service popular among videogamers raises $100 million as it aims to go mainstream
2020-12-17 19:49:00 Opinion Hijacking the Fed to Bail Out States Democrats are blocking Covid relief to keep 13(3) pandemic lending alive.
2020-12-17 19:37:00 U.S. Supreme Court Denies Kentucky Religious School Exemption From Virus Shutdown Unsigned order, with two conservative justices dissenting, goes against amicus brief of Sens. Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul
2020-12-17 19:31:00 CIO Journal Amazon’s Chief Technology Officer Shares His Predictions for 2021 The cloud may be unavoidable, on Earth and above, and more apps will be powered by it. Machine-learning will be available to a bigger audience, and quantum computing picks up
2020-12-17 19:27:00 Economy World Bank Says Managers Pressured Staff to Alter Global Business Rankings Manipulated data helped China, Saudi Arabia gain ground in survey of nations’ business climates, according to internal audit sparked by employee concerns
2020-12-17 18:52:00 Politics Covid Aid Talks Face Time Pressures Lawmakers see possible need for short-term spending bill to keep government open as relief negotiations wrap up
2020-12-17 18:46:00 Markets Robinhood Financial to Pay $65 Million to Settle SEC Probe The brokerage firm settles investigation over early failure to highlight deals with high-speed trading firms
2020-12-17 18:37:00 Opinion School Choice: Better Than Prozac A new study reports less suicide among children with education options.
2020-12-17 18:37:00 Opinion The Marines’ Missile Imperative Congress may not fund ground-based weapons for Pacific defense.
2020-12-17 18:28:00 Life & Arts ‘Mole’: Le Carré’s Fiction Burrows Its Way Into the Real World The late spy novelist wrote so realistically about espionage that even intelligence agents picked up lingo from his books
2020-12-17 18:27:00 Opinion The Monday When America Came Back An extraordinary effort to develop Covid vaccines bore fruit the same day the Electoral College voted.
2020-12-17 18:27:00 Opinion Narendra Modi’s Reform Drama Liberalizing agriculture is politically difficult but economically crucial for India.
2020-12-17 18:26:00 Opinion Time for a Second Round of PPP With lockdowns ramping up, Congress should again extend this crucial economic lifeline to America’s small businesses.
2020-12-17 18:26:00 Business FedEx Revenue Jumps on Holiday Surge Carrier’s Ground unit handled 29% more volume amid Covid-19 pandemic and holiday shopping
2020-12-17 18:22:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Home Depot to Pay $21 Million Penalty for Alleged Lead-Safety Violations Environmental Protection Agency found the home-improvement company sent uncertified firms to do renovations that required certified firms
2020-12-17 18:21:00 Opinion A Real-Life Tale of Derring-Do How my friend Jan Nowak earned a statue in Warsaw.
2020-12-17 18:20:00 Opinion The Flaw in the UAW Corruption Settlement Union leaders should stay neutral in a member vote.
2020-12-17 18:18:00 Opinion Have Yourself a Scary Little Christmas The Canadian author Robertson Davies was a master of the Yuletide ghost story.
2020-12-17 18:18:00 Opinion The Middle East’s Dual ‘Occupations’ The Israel-Morocco peace deal underscores a double standard on the West Bank versus Western Sahara.
2020-12-17 18:17:00 Opinion Biden’s Court Problem He may find a judicial branch more skeptical of regulatory power than under Obama.
2020-12-17 18:13:00 Books Excerpts From Edwin Wilson’s ‘Magic Time’ A memoir of a lifetime’s active engagement with American theater, by a former drama critic for The Wall Street Journal.
2020-12-17 17:44:00 CMO Today Unilever Says It Will Resume Advertising on Facebook in U.S. The consumer-products giant paused spending on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter in the U.S. starting in July
2020-12-17 17:11:00 Life & Arts Orange-Almond Tart Remember when a box of oranges was the most thrilling gift? It still is. Use our guide to varieties and sources to find the best heirloom fruit—the kind you can’t find at the supermarket—picked at its prime.
2020-12-17 17:11:00 Tech More States Hit Google Over Alleged Monopoly Conduct Case follows probe into search business by Colorado and other states
2020-12-17 16:59:00 Politics Biden Picks Regan for EPA, Haaland for Interior Regan would be the second Black administrator in the agency’s history; Haaland would be first Native American cabinet secretary
2020-12-17 16:55:00 Life & Arts Golden Beet and Orange Salad with Yogurt and Za’atar Remember when a box of oranges was the most thrilling gift? It still is. Use our guide to varieties and sources to find the best heirloom fruit—the kind you can’t find at the supermarket—picked at its prime.
2020-12-17 16:51:00 Business Disney’s Chairman Robert Iger Is Game for a New Job: U.S. Ambassador to China An Iger appointment could roil politicians critical of Disney’s business in China
2020-12-17 16:44:00 Politics Biden Picks Deb Haaland as Interior Secretary If confirmed, New Mexico Democrat would be first ever Native American cabinet secretary
2020-12-17 16:39:00 Opinion A President for Consumers The leader of the dishwasher rebellion has more good news for U.S. households.
2020-12-17 16:33:00 Life & Arts Scallops in Blood-Orange Gastrique with Fennel-Endive Salad Remember when a box of oranges was the most thrilling gift? It still is. Use our guide to varieties and sources to find the best heirloom fruit—the kind you can’t find at the supermarket—picked at its prime.
2020-12-17 16:25:00 World In Lockerbie, Downing of Pan Am Flight 103 Still Casts a Long Shadow Scars remain in the Scottish town where 11 people were killed by debris from the 1988 bombing
2020-12-17 16:25:00 Film Review ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Review: Royal Blues Chadwick Boseman is brilliant in his final role and Viola Davis stars as the titular singer in this adaptation of the August Wilson play.
2020-12-17 16:25:00 Markets Treasury Yields Rise After Stimulus Progress Lawmakers signal they are close to agreement on stimulus package
2020-12-17 16:23:00 Television Review ‘On Pointe’ Review: Muscular Dancing, Flabby Drama A Disney+ documentary series finds little tension in its chronicle of the students at New York’s School of American Ballet.
2020-12-17 16:22:00 Opinion ‘A Christmas Carol’ and ‘The Steadfast Tin Soldier’ Reviews: A Feast of Yuletide Plays Several stage versions of Dickens’s holiday fable are now streaming, including Jefferson Mays’s dazzling one-man rendition; also available is a magical pantomime production of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale.
2020-12-17 16:17:00 Television Review ‘Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas With Vanessa Williams’ Review: Jazz and Jingle Bells On PBS, a concert from the American Pops Orchestra featuring an array of talented singers pays tribute to Ella Fitzgerald’s 1960 Christmas album.
2020-12-17 16:13:00 Film Review ‘Promising Young Woman’ Review: Squandered Potential A darkly comic take on revenge stories falls flat, but Carey Mulligan makes the best of her part.
2020-12-17 16:02:00 Life & Arts Why Mail-Order Citrus Is Totally Worth It: A Smart Shopper’s Guide Remember when a box of oranges was the most thrilling gift? It still is. Use our guide to varieties and sources to find the best heirloom fruit—the kind you can’t find at the supermarket—picked at its prime.
2020-12-17 15:56:00 U.S. New Jersey Legislature Approves Recreational Marijuana Bill Legislation creates regulatory framework for new cannabis marketplace
2020-12-17 14:58:00 Politics DEA Widens Path for Medical Marijuana Research New ruling resolves treaty issue cited by officials to curtail authorization of growing operations for research purposes
2020-12-17 14:45:00 Markets Bitcoin Exchange Coinbase Files for Initial Public Offering Coinbase will be the first major bitcoin-focused company to test the public markets
2020-12-17 14:29:00 Markets Risky Loans Secure Private-Equity Payouts Despite Downturn Companies borrow heavily to send cash to owners, boosting debt levels
2020-12-17 14:28:00 Politics Congress Moves to End Surprise Medical Billing Bipartisan agreement expected to be included in year-end legislation
2020-12-17 14:00:00 Business Coca-Cola to Cut 2,200 Jobs Soda giant’s restructuring will reduce U.S. staff by about 12%
2020-12-17 13:53:00 World European Union Eyes Late-December Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says a vaccine rollout will begin as soon as Dec. 27
2020-12-17 13:36:00 Opinion Britain Already Is Beyond Brexit Despite tough talks over a trade deal with Brussels, the real excitement in the U.K. is now domestic.
2020-12-17 13:36:00 Opinion How to End Lockdowns Next Month Target vaccines to the most vulnerable, and don’t give them to people who have already been infected.
2020-12-17 12:47:00 World Russia’s Putin Dismisses Kremlin’s Role in Navalny Poisoning In news conference, Putin said the opposition politician worked with U.S. agents
2020-12-17 12:24:00 CMO Today WPP Outlines Plan to Invest in Commerce and Tech as Ad Industry Navigates Pandemic Advertising holding companies are accelerating their shifts toward e-commerce and data
2020-12-17 12:16:00 Tech Why Google Is Now Under Attack From All Sides Search giant faces two—likely soon to be three—antitrust lawsuits
2020-12-17 12:09:00 Life & Arts Dinner From a Can, No Apologies Sick of cooking but craving something sensational? With these Spanish seafood conservas in the cupboard, you’re covered.
2020-12-17 12:05:00 Opinion When Time Ran Out to Litigate the Election Distrust in the functioning of our democracy will continue to fester as a result of the courts’ and the media’s refusal to examine evidence of fraud.
2020-12-17 12:03:00 Opinion A Guardrail for the Next Covid Relief Package The federal unemployment benefit provided incentives for unemployed Americans to stay home and out of the workforce. We can prevent this policy failure from repeating itself.
2020-12-17 12:01:00 Opinion Warnock of Georgia Likens Netanyahu to George Wallace In a 2015 sermon he described the policy of Israel and its prime minister as “occupation today, occupation tomorrow, occupation forever.”
2020-12-17 11:22:00 Markets Credit Suisse Criminally Charged in Longstanding Money-Laundering Case Swiss prosecutors allege the lender didn’t comply with provisions against money laundering, allowing a Bulgarian criminal organization to launder money through the bank between 2004 and 2008
2020-12-17 11:06:00 Markets Investors Turning Up Noses at Food Companies Stocks like General Mills, Campbell are overlooked value plays as investors doubt recent progress is permanent
2020-12-17 11:00:00 Politics Senators Press IRS for SolarWinds Hack Briefing Grassley, Wyden cite concerns about security of taxpayer data in wake of multiple-agency intrusion
2020-12-17 10:33:00 Tech Google Must Silo Fitbit Data, EU Says, Clearing $2.1 Billion Deal European Union antitrust officials give the green light to the acquisition after Google promised concessions
2020-12-17 10:15:00 World Abducted Nigerian Schoolboys Plead for Help in Video Footage shows hostages of Boko Haram saying some of their classmates have died
2020-12-17 09:51:00 World Gideon Gartner Founded Company Advising Computer Buyers Research company thrived on punchy briefings for executives; the founder has died at age 85
2020-12-17 08:52:00 Economy U.S. Unemployment Claims Remain Elevated as Recovery Slows Claims rise 23,000 to 885,000 as economists expect the labor market to cool until Covid-19 vaccines are widely distributed
2020-12-17 08:43:00 Markets Roku, Lennar, Bitcoin: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today U.S. stock futures rose, suggesting indexes could rise for a third straight day
2020-12-17 08:41:00 Markets U.S. Stock Futures Rise on Stimulus Bets Dollar extends recent slide after Fed reinforced expectations that it will support markets with asset purchases
2020-12-17 08:08:00 Election 2020 As Georgia Runoff Looms, a Controversial Video Seeds Threats ‘I think this is horrible’: False online claims in Gwinnett County foster potential violence
2020-12-17 08:00:00 Life & Arts The Biggest Negative in This NBA Season Is Too Many Positives The NBA restarts next week in the real world—not a bubble. The team that wins might be the one with the most depth and fewest virus-related absences.
2020-12-17 07:55:00 Politics Biden Inauguration Set to Welcome Donations, Not Donors, to Washington Festivities to be scaled down, but big donors are promised perks such as a virtual concert and VIP tickets to a future in-person event
2020-12-17 07:37:00 Markets South Korea’s Zombie Companies Are Scarier Than the Movies The pandemic has exacerbated South Korea’s burgeoning corporate debt, too much of which is going to ossifying firms and dragging on the country’s economic potential
2020-12-17 07:26:00 World Top Pentagon General Meets With Taliban to Prod Afghan Peace Talks Gen. Mark Milley spoke with group’s leaders in Qatar in a bid to end the 20-year war in Afghanistan
2020-12-17 07:09:00 World Germany’s Winning Covid Strategy Has Stopped Working The country fared much better than European neighbors in the first wave, but the autumn surge has hit it harder
2020-12-17 07:04:00 World French President Macron Tests Positive for Covid-19 This week Macron met with a number of European leaders
2020-12-17 07:00:00 Markets Covid-19, Election Jitters Were No Match for Heard Readers Subscribers’ picks beat both the market and our columnists in Heard on the Street’s fourth annual stock-picking contest
2020-12-17 07:00:00 Markets DoorDash, Grubhub, Others Could Face a Pared-Down Menu Delivery platforms could lose their appeal for restaurants after the coronavirus pandemic ends
2020-12-17 06:30:00 Markets Housing Market Won’t Mind Libor’s Lingering Around Superlow rates may be slowing the move to a replacement benchmark; more time for some loans to switch could ease the final transition
2020-12-17 06:02:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Big Pharma Checkup, Reviving Zombie Brands, High-End Purchasing Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2020-12-17 06:00:00 CMO Today New Ad Fraud Scheme Highlights a Growing Problem for Streaming TV Oracle says it detected a continuing effort to lure ad dollars with simulated devices and apps
2020-12-17 05:37:00 Markets Rio Tinto Names Jakob Stausholm CEO, as It Seeks to Rebuild Reputation New chief will be tasked with restoring trust with traditional owners of Juukan Gorge caves, which the company destroyed
2020-12-17 05:30:00 Markets Tesla-Style Rally Puts Chinese Electric-Vehicle Makers on Par With GM, Ford Chinese EV companies—most of them unprofitable—have seen their valuations soar to levels similar to those of the American auto giants
2020-12-17 05:30:00 World Covid-19 Closed Borders and a Once-Hot Apartment Market Crumbled Australia has been hit hard by sagging demand because immigrants and foreign students have been shut out
2020-12-17 05:30:00 Business Peter Jackson’s Special-Effects Firm Looks to Become a Content Producer Demand from streaming services creates opportunities for the company behind the visual effects of ‘Avatar’ and ‘Avengers’
2020-12-17 05:30:00 Business Moderna’s Covid-19 Vaccine Likely to Get Backing From FDA Panel, Chairman Says Agency, which cleared Pfizer vaccine last week, has called new offering ‘highly effective’
2020-12-17 05:11:00 World U.S. Stood Up by China at Military Safety Meeting People’s Liberation Army no-show at scheduled bilateral dialogue is the first in memory, U.S. defense official says
2020-12-17 04:49:00 Markets Who Wins From Brexit? New York However current negotiations between the U.K. and EU end, U.S. swap exchanges stand to gain European business
2020-12-17 04:17:00 Business Toyota’s Chief Says Electric Vehicles Are Overhyped Akio Toyoda says converting entirely to EVs could cost hundreds of billions of dollars and make cars unaffordable for average people
2020-12-16 22:51:00 Business NASA Makes Blue Origin Eligible to Launch Future Missions Without Crews Jeff Bezos and his company’s New Glenn rocket, which hasn’t yet flown, get nod to potentially carry scientific payloads later this decade
2020-12-16 22:00:00 Business BarkBox to Go Public in $1.6 Billion Deal Dog-supplies startup is latest company to go public by merging with a blank-check company
2020-12-16 20:35:00 Politics Biden to Get Covid-19 Vaccine in Public Next Week, Pence on Friday President-elect and vice president aim to promote safety of shot
2020-12-16 19:19:00 U.S. Pompeo Cancels Party for Ambassadors After Coronavirus Exposure Secretary of state goes into quarantine after unspecified encounter, State Department says
2020-12-16 19:02:00 Business China’s Luckin Coffee to Pay $180 Million to Settle Accounting-Fraud Claims SEC says the company intentionally faked more than $300 million in retail sales
2020-12-16 19:00:00 Tech Amazon Faces Unionization Push in Alabama, a Test in Labor Organizing Bid Election to be scheduled for workers at company’s Bessemer facility
2020-12-16 18:37:00 Opinion The Fed’s Stimulus Paradox The central bank again revises its growth forecasts upward.
2020-12-16 18:34:00 Opinion Angus King’s Gambit Maine’s Senator wants free entertainment streaming for all.
2020-12-16 18:31:00 Opinion Georgia’s Audit of Ballot Signatures Checking Cobb County’s absentees to shore up public confidence.
2020-12-16 18:27:00 Opinion Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Choice The Turkish leader can embrace the West or accept sanctions.
2020-12-16 18:23:00 Opinion Joe Biden’s Cabinet of Diversity Does politics have a larger purpose than dividing power by multiple categories?
2020-12-16 18:22:00 Opinion Biden Needs a Conciliatory Tone The new president should stop dwelling on the election, even if the old one won’t.
2020-12-16 18:22:00 Opinion Remember the Persecuted at Christmas Covid restrictions are mild compared with what many of the faithful endure.
2020-12-16 18:21:00 Books ‘Unsinkable’ Review: Set Ablaze, Still Fighting German planes were spotted high above. What followed may have been the most intense aerial attack on a single ship during all of World War II.
2020-12-16 18:12:00 Opinion Covid Vaccine Shakedown at the WTO Mercantile interests are behind India’s and South Africa’s high-minded talk about helping the poor.
2020-12-16 18:11:00 Opinion Now We’re Cooking With Gas. But Tomorrow? The Sierra Club hijacks a state agency in an effort to force Californians to use electric stoves and ovens.
2020-12-16 18:10:00 Fed’s Powell Says Treasury Market Will Eventually Stand on Its Own Again The Fed is buying $120 billion a month in Treasurys and mortgage bonds
2020-12-16 18:01:00 Tech Pinterest Pledges Changes to Workplace Culture After Discrimination Settlement Social-media company said independent review recommends mandatory unconscious-bias training
2020-12-16 17:46:00 Pro Bankruptcy Trial Over Mistaken Citigroup Payment Focuses on Revlon Lenders’ Knowledge A federal judge weighed evidence on whether recipients knew the payment was made in error
2020-12-16 16:58:00 Business Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Wants Boies Schiller Documents Kept Secret Prosecutors argue records aren’t covered by attorney-client privilege and should be seen by jury
2020-12-16 16:56:00 Politics Cybersecurity Official Fired by Trump Last Month Says U.S. Election Was Secure At Senate hearing, Republicans air concerns of voting irregularities; Democrats accuse them of spreading unsubstantiated claims
2020-12-16 16:56:00 World Lockerbie Bombing: U.S. Said to Be Near Charges for Another Suspect in 1988 Plane Crash Charges aimed at a top bomb-maker for late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi
2020-12-16 16:54:00 Business Roku Signs Deal to Carry HBO Max, Ending Standoff Dispute had threatened to leave Roku customers without access to an upcoming ‘Wonder Woman’ movie
2020-12-16 16:51:00 Markets Fed Keeps Foot on the Gas Central bank pledges to keep up asset purchases, giving investors less reason to worry about high stock prices
2020-12-16 16:44:00 Tech States Allege Google Cut Deal With Facebook to Rig Online Ad Market Texas-led group of states accuses Alphabet unit of striking arrangement with rival tech giant to preserve its own dominance; legal action follows federal case
2020-12-16 16:23:00 Risk & Compliance Journal SEC Approves Scaled-Back Disclosure Rule for Energy, Mining Companies Latest version of the rule attempts to ease compliance burden while implementing a Dodd-Frank provision that is supposed to combat corruption
2020-12-16 16:22:00 World Fourteen People Convicted in Charlie Hebdo Terrorist Attack Trial Judge hands prison sentences to those charged with assisting the three men who carried out the 2015 terrorist attacks
2020-12-16 16:19:00 Opinion The Swalwell Timeline Did a communist spy know the congressman was about to assume oversight of the CIA?
2020-12-16 16:04:00 Business Tyson Fires Pork Plant Managers After Probe Into Covid-19 Bets Seven terminated after investigation into claims that managers wagered on infections among employees, and pressured workers to stay on the job
2020-12-16 16:00:00 Politics Covid-19 Expected to Reshape Health-Care Sector, HHS Says Pandemic will have profound effect on provision, consumption and spending in 2020 and beyond, report finds; full impact isn’t yet known
2020-12-16 15:40:00 U.S. Supreme Court to Hear NCAA Antitrust Case on College-Athlete Compensation Justices agree to take up NCAA appeal of ruling that it unlawfully limited competition for college athletes
2020-12-16 15:32:00 Tech Twitter to Take Down False Claims About Covid-19 Vaccines It is the tech company’s latest effort to slow the spread of false claims related to the pandemic
2020-12-16 15:28:00 Dance Review ‘The Nutcracker’ Reviews: Balanchine at Home for the Holidays New York City Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet offer filmed productions of George Balanchine’s staging of Tchaikovsky’s Christmas classic.
2020-12-16 15:28:00 U.S. Kenyan Man Charged With Plotting Sept. 11-Style Attack U.S. prosecutors say Cholo Abdi Abdullah was acting at direction of terrorist group al Shabaab
2020-12-16 15:18:00 CFO Journal CFOs Face Challenges Forecasting Capital Spending Plans for 2021 Finance chiefs must decide whether to make long-term investments based on changes in demand during the pandemic
2020-12-16 15:16:00 Opinion Can Cancel Culture Be Measured in Degrees? The issue raised by Mr. Epstein has nothing to do with women as such, but with a certain hypocrisy about what constitutes genuine accomplishment.
2020-12-16 15:14:00 Opinion Becerra Is the Right Lawyer for the Biden Health Agenda The selection of Xavier Becerra to run the Department of Health and Human Services shows that Joe Biden’s team knows what it wants to do.
2020-12-16 15:11:00 Opinion Economics of Solar Energy Failures Have Been Ignored Today’s best lithium-ion batteries have only a fraction of the energy density of hydrocarbons from oil and gas.
2020-12-16 14:45:00 World China Moon Mission Ends as Lunar Probe Returns to Earth With Fragments With a landing in the snow, the Chinese space program executes the final stage of its third trip to explore the moon’s surface
2020-12-16 14:43:00 World Nigeria Horrified Over Abducted Schoolboys, as Parents Anxiously Wait Answers demanded on how Boko Haram jihadists could have again struck a remote corner of the country to seize hundreds of children
2020-12-16 14:36:00 Economy Fed Updates Plans for Bond Buying, but Makes No Changes to Asset Purchases Most central bank officials project interest rates will remain near zero for at least three years
2020-12-16 14:28:00 Politics Second Stimulus Checks and Covid-19 Aid—What’s In and What’s Out Lawmakers also consider jobless aid, money for schools, small businesses, vaccine distribution
2020-12-16 14:28:00 Life & Arts Coronavirus Ended Japan’s Tourist Boom, but Kyoto Carries On While still off-limits to most international tourists, Kyoto in many ways feels remarkably unchanged, writes Pico Iyer of his adopted home
2020-12-16 14:24:00 Business Amazon Lobbies for Its Workers to Receive Covid-19 Vaccine In letter to CDC, e-commerce giant requested that its front-line employees get inoculated ‘at earliest appropriate time’
2020-12-16 14:15:00 Opinion What Raphael Warnock Believes About Israel The Atlanta clergyman often sounds more like a transnational leftist than an American politician.
2020-12-16 14:14:00 Opinion Beethoven’s Fifth, Ninth and 250th He never heard his own later works, but we’re still listening.
2020-12-16 14:14:00 Logistics Report British Ports Are Struggling Under a Crush of Containers IKEA and Honda are among the prominent companies hit as a flood of pre-Brexit business floods major U.K. gateways
2020-12-16 14:08:00 World Sweden’s Covid-19 Policy Comes Under Fresh Scrutiny Report faults government’s strategy of avoiding mandatory restrictions; prime minister says country underestimated autumn surge
2020-12-16 13:30:00 Markets Europe Will Need a Loan Crisis to Create a Post-Covid Bad Bank Underwhelming plans for dealing with a prospective surge in bad debts highlight the political challenges posed by the EU’s proposal
2020-12-16 13:18:00 U.S. Pfizer to Complete First Covid-19 Vaccine Shipments in U.S. A second round of shipments was slated to start Thursday and finish Sunday
2020-12-16 13:15:00 Tech Facebook Wades Into ‘Fortnite’ Maker’s Dispute With Apple Social-networking company also dials up criticism of Apple’s plan to allow iPhone users to restrict access to personal data
2020-12-16 12:58:00 Markets MSCI Drops Chinese Stocks on U.S. Blacklist The move, affecting stocks in seven Chinese companies, will take effect by the close of business on Jan. 5
2020-12-16 12:58:00 World French Court Convicts Former Vatican Envoy of Sexual Assault Archbishop Luigi Ventura is one of several prominent Catholic churchmen accused of sexual misconduct in recent years
2020-12-16 12:45:00 Markets Help Arriving None Too Soon for Retailers Disappointing retail sales report sets stage for a difficult winter, but new round of government support could ease the pain
2020-12-16 12:44:00 Life & Arts MLB Retrospectively Elevates Negro Leagues to Major League Status The move grants recognition to some of baseball’s pioneers from 1920 to 1948 and immediately rewrites the game’s record books
2020-12-16 12:33:00 World As Arab States Recognize Israel, Egypt’s ‘Cold Peace’ Points to Challenges Ahead Egypt was the first Arab country to recognize Israel more than 40 years ago, but the relationship shows the challenges of translating government ties into grass roots goodwill
2020-12-16 12:19:00 Politics Treasury Designates Vietnam, Switzerland as Currency Manipulators Report says the two countries had intervened in foreign exchange markets in a persistent, one-sided manner to limit appreciations of their currencies
2020-12-16 12:06:00 Markets Bitcoin Tops $20,000 for First Time The milestone is the latest bullish sign for cryptocurrencies
2020-12-16 12:02:00 Life & Arts Alone for Covid Holidays? Family Recipes, Flexibility and Online Connections Can Help How people across the U.S. are dealing with a more solitary holiday season
2020-12-16 12:01:00 Life & Arts Staying Safe for Covid Christmas Means Tough Choices, Feelings of Loss and Planning for 2021 How people across the globe are adapting traditions to protect their loved ones
2020-12-16 12:01:00 Life & Arts ‘Covid Can’t Steal Christmas’: Americans Reinvent Holiday Traditions During Coronavirus How people across the U.S. are finding new ways to mark the holidays
2020-12-16 12:01:00 U.S. U.S. Executions Fall to 29-Year Low States put seven inmates to death, while the federal government carried out 10 death sentences
2020-12-16 11:55:00 Politics Second Round of Stimulus Checks Discussed By Congressional Leaders They are nearing a Covid-19 relief package expected to exclude state and local funding, liability protections
2020-12-16 11:53:00 Markets Wish Parent ContextLogic Starts Trading Below IPO Price The IPO marks one of the last public-market debuts this year but stands in contrast with the appetite for last week’s debuts of Airbnb and DoorDash
2020-12-16 11:51:00 Business Aphria and Tilray to Merge to Create Biggest Global Cannabis Company Combination of Canadian firms would control 17% of country’s adult-use market by revenue, at $686 million
2020-12-16 11:18:00 World Brexit Negotiations Inch Forward—With One Key Obstacle Deal on future relations between U.K. and EU needs to be in place in weeks
2020-12-16 11:07:00 Markets Should You Borrow to the Hilt and Put It All Into Stocks? Experience of one notable investor shows the opportunities and pitfalls of borrowing for the long run
2020-12-16 10:53:00 Life & Arts Want to ‘Travel’ During Covid? Look Through Foreign Windows, Digitally Starved for a change of scenery? This user-generated website lets you flip through hundreds of other window views around the world.
2020-12-16 09:30:00 Life & Arts We Tested 50 Face Moisturizers to Find the Best Come winter, both men and women encounter dry, parched skin. So we set out to uncover the most soothing, yet not sticky creams for all skin types and desires.
2020-12-16 08:42:00 Markets American Outdoor Brands, Tilray: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today U.S. stock futures edged higher as investors monitor fiscal stimulus talks and await new statements from the Federal Reserve
2020-12-16 08:38:00 Life & Arts 2021 Kia Sorento: Finally, an SUV That’s the Right Size for Families SUVs are getting too big—and too pricey. Kia’s sleeker midsize Sorento trims the fat without sacrificing the third-row seat, giving the middle class a break, says Dan Neil.
2020-12-16 08:00:00 Business StockX Snags $2.8 Billion Valuation in Latest Funding Round Online marketplace for sneakers and streetwear raised $275 million from private investors
2020-12-16 08:00:00 U.S. Big Tech and Antitrust: A Path Forward With so much uncertainty, let’s embrace a policy agenda that is premised on curiosity
2020-12-16 07:57:00 Business Texas’ Tax Advantage Is All About Individuals, Not Business Taxes Companies moving from California likely won’t see their own tax bills shrink, but executives and employees could pay less
2020-12-16 07:46:00 World Paris Is Fined for Breaking France’s Gender Rules—by Hiring Too Many Women Mayor Anne Hidalgo appointed 11 women and five men to senior roles at city hall in 2018, and now has to pay a $110,000 fine
2020-12-16 07:35:00 Markets EU Unveils Plans to Help Banks Clean Up Soured Covid-19 Loans The proposal is a way to help Europe’s creaky banks navigate the downturn and be strong enough to lend during the recovery
2020-12-16 07:00:00 Markets Massachusetts Regulators to File Complaint Against Robinhood The wildly popular trading platform exposed Massachusetts investors to ‘unnecessary trading risks,’ according to the complaint
2020-12-16 07:00:00 Business The Coronavirus-Era Shopping Response to a Downturn: Trade Up Consumers across income brackets use savings to splurge on high-end items; three $10,000 watches, ‘gilt gifting’
2020-12-16 06:30:00 Economy Europe’s Economy Steadies as Vaccine Hopes Cheer Businesses Surveys of purchasing managers point to a stabilization, but setbacks remain likely as infections stay high
2020-12-16 06:25:00 Markets Rising U.K. House Prices Drive Mortgage Surge for Banks Mortgage lending has been a rare bright spot for banks as U.K. property prices hit records
2020-12-16 06:21:00 Markets China’s Champion Chip Maker Checks if Co-CEO Still Wants to Work There SMIC shares fell after reports one of its leaders planned to resign, which was news to the company, and MSCI moved to evict it from its indexes
2020-12-16 06:18:00 Tech Huawei Gets Conditional Green Light in Germany as Government Approves Security Bill New network-security legislation is latest setback for U.S. effort to rein in Chinese tech giant
2020-12-16 06:00:00 CMO Today E-Commerce to Total a Quarter of Global Retail by 2024, GroupM Forecasts Accelerated online shopping will inspire new strategies from marketers trying to capitalize on the trend
2020-12-16 06:00:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Real Estate Losers, Retail’s Wild Ride, Manufacturing’s Long Decline Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2020-12-16 05:30:00 Back From the Brink: Buyers Snatch Up Moribund Brands for a Second Life Online Lord & Taylor, Stein Mart and Pier 1 Imports are among a number of zombie brands salvaged from bankruptcy and being reenvisioned as online-only retailers
2020-12-16 05:30:00 Markets Investors Pile Into ETFs Devoted to Socially Responsible ESG Funds focusing on environmental, social and corporate governance practices draw record amount
2020-12-16 05:30:00 Economy December Fed Meeting to Focus on Asset Purchases Officials are considering changes to large-scale bond buying and will present new economic and interest-rate projections
2020-12-16 05:30:00 Biden Faces Early Test on Digital Trade With EU Privacy Talks Restrictions on data transfers from the EU have created uncertainty for thousands of U.S. businesses
2020-12-16 05:30:00 Business Covid-19 Vaccine Trial Volunteers Note Occasional Harsh Side Effects Most report mild side effects, but those experiencing worse still recommend the shots
2020-12-16 05:30:00 Economy U.S. Consumers Hold Back on Spending Early in Holiday Shopping Season Retail sales in November are forecast to decline, ending six months of spending growth
2020-12-16 05:26:00 Markets Stock Futures Tick up as Investors Await Stimulus Deal, Economic Data The Federal Reserve is scheduled to disclose its latest economic projections and offer guidance on monetary policy on Wednesday afternoon
2020-12-16 04:32:00 Markets The Contradictions of China’s Real-Estate Boom Can’t Keep Going Real-estate developers provide much-needed economic activity and land purchases. A squeeze on their balance sheets by the government would have impacts on international markets.
2020-12-16 01:00:00 Commodities BP Boosts Its Bet on Trees With majority ownership of Finite Carbon, the oil giant plans to take global the business of paying landowners not to cut down trees
2020-12-15 20:06:00 Markets Labor Department Finishes Fiduciary Rule for Retirement Plans But regulation affecting trillions of dollars in retirement accounts is likely to face revision by Biden administration
2020-12-15 19:42:00 CFO Journal Air Canada Promotes Company Insider to CFO The carrier’s current finance chief is set to become chief executive in February
2020-12-15 19:25:00 Tech Google’s Gmail Faces Service Disruptions Again Users encounter problems a day after a wider disruption to Google services
2020-12-15 19:14:00 Tech Texas Hires Lawyers to Handle Antitrust Case Against Google Google has denied any anticompetitive behavior; a Texas suit would follow a U.S. suit
2020-12-15 18:53:00 CIO Journal Public-Sector Tech Braces for Even Tighter Budgets State budget shortfalls resulting from the pandemic threaten a push by IT leaders for improved digital services, cybersecurity
2020-12-15 18:52:00 Pro Bankruptcy Mallinckrodt Shareholders Fight for a Seat at the Bankruptcy Bargaining Table Caught in wave of opioid lawsuits, the drugmaker wants to leave shareholders behind in chapter 11
2020-12-15 18:45:00 Politics Biden to Tap Jennifer Granholm for Energy Secretary Former Michigan governor pushed state to increase use of renewable energy
2020-12-15 18:35:00 Politics Trump Organization Ordered to Turn Over Documents to New York Attorney General President’s company had tried to shield the records from a state civil fraud investigation
2020-12-15 18:28:00 Opinion Congress Punts on China Stocks A vague bill leaves accounting details to regulators and lobbyists.
2020-12-15 18:26:00 Opinion Europe’s Digital Power Play Tying down U.S. behemoths won’t boost European competitors.
2020-12-15 18:25:00 Opinion The Market the Central Bank Bought The Bank of Japan becomes the country’s largest stockholder.
2020-12-15 18:25:00 Opinion Secrets of the Oracle Prosecution A letter reveals the animus behind a dubious labor lawsuit.
2020-12-15 18:22:00 Politics White House National Security Adviser O’Brien Cuts Trip Short to Address SolarWinds Hack O’Brien will hold meetings Tuesday and Wednesday to address suspected Russian hack of U.S. government agencies
2020-12-15 18:22:00 Opinion Is Remote Learning an ‘Easy A’? Students discuss whether the pandemic has raised or lowered colleges’ standards.
2020-12-15 18:20:00 Opinion An Intelligent Discussion About Race and IQ Is Possible James Flynn approached one of social science’s most controversial topics with logic and empiricism.
2020-12-15 18:19:00 Opinion The Trouble With Facial Recognition Doesn’t Justify a Ban It’s helped find thousands of dangerous criminals. Reasonable limits can prevent abuse and error.
2020-12-15 18:18:00 CFO Journal New Volkswagen CFO Tasked With Boosting Efficiencies Arno Antlitz is set to take over from current finance chief Frank Witter in mid-2021
2020-12-15 18:17:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: A Scholar ‘The real aim for our ire should be @jamestaranto the editor of their op-ed page.’
2020-12-15 18:16:00 Books ‘The Speed Game’ Review: Fast Break Forever A veteran coach reflects on Kareem, Magic and a style of play. The key is never to let up. Slowing down only gives the other team a moment to rest.
2020-12-15 18:14:00 Opinion Vaccines vs. Lockdowns Science triumphed but shouldn’t we have cut corners and moved faster?
2020-12-15 18:14:00 Opinion Coercion in Xinjiang’s Cotton Fields The West needs wider controls on Chinese imports produced with forced labor.
2020-12-15 18:11:00 Politics Biden Visits Georgia to Rally Support for Democrats in Senate Runoffs President-elect urges state’s voters to give him working majority in Senate at start of administration
2020-12-15 18:05:00 Opinion What Will We Do Without Trump? A reckoning for resistance media.
2020-12-15 17:50:00 U.S. Census Estimates U.S. Population Grew 8% in Last Decade, Slowest Since the 1930s Census Bureau released population estimate ahead of results of 2020 census count that wrapped up in October
2020-12-15 17:04:00 Opinion States, Cities and the Gigantic Covid Bailout Shouldn’t some care be exercised in how we give money to the politicians?
2020-12-15 17:03:00 Opinion Oregon Lawmakers Ignore Oregon, U.S. Law ‘The dream of a Nation of equal citizens in a society where race is irrelevant to personal opportunity and achievement would be lost in a mosaic of shifting preferences based on inherently unmeasurable claims of past wrongs.’
2020-12-15 17:02:00 Opinion Between God and Proper Insurance Coverage Many times the real issue is accepting the cost of the decisions we’ve made when an unfortunate loss occurs.
2020-12-15 16:54:00 Music Review ‘McCartney III’ by Paul McCartney Review: Songs From a Homebound Beatle His tour canceled owing to Covid-19, the musician put together an album at home in England on which he plays all the instruments and displays a still vibrant compositional flair.
2020-12-15 16:52:00 Television Review ‘The Stand’ Review: A Dystopia for Today and Tomorrow This adaptation of a Stephen King novel about a pandemic is especially timely in the age of Covid, but also stands up as a lasting work in the genre.
2020-12-15 16:48:00 U.S. Pfizer Expands Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout to Hospitals Across the U.S. More front-line health-care workers receive the first dose of the shot as hospitals devise rationing methods for limited supplies
2020-12-15 16:46:00 World Saudi Arabia Reins in Spending to Contain Deficit Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will have to cut back on his outsize projects meant to diversify the economy
2020-12-15 16:38:00 Politics Facebook to Allow Political Ads for Georgia Runoffs Social-media giant to maintain broader blackout on political ads unconnected to Jan. 5 Senate races
2020-12-15 16:32:00 Politics Biden Selects Pete Buttigieg to Lead Transportation Department The former South Bend, Ind., mayor endorsed Biden after dropping his bid for the Democratic nomination in March
2020-12-15 16:29:00 U.S. Gun Maker Smith & Wesson Sues New Jersey to Block Subpoena Democratic attorney general is seeking evidence of fraudulent marketing by firearms manufacturer, according to lawsuit
2020-12-15 16:29:00 World Mexico Passes Law Curbing Operations of Foreign Security Agents U.S. says measure risks crippling bilateral efforts to fight drug gangs
2020-12-15 16:07:00 Television Review ‘The Art of Political Murder’ Review: Justice Shattered Then Served A documentary looks into the killing of a Guatemalan bishop who had exposed military crimes.
2020-12-15 16:05:00 Music Review ‘Wilhelm Kempff Edition’ Review: A Classical Colossus An 80-CD set of the German pianist’s recordings abounds with thoughtful interpretations, including renditions of the complete piano sonatas of Beethoven and Schubert.
2020-12-15 15:59:00 Politics Congressional Leaders to Meet Tuesday to Discuss Covid-19, Year-End Spending Bill First meeting in weeks of top four leaders signals they could be ready to make difficult decisions needed to cut a deal
2020-12-15 15:59:00 U.S. Peter Nygard Indicted in Sex-Trafficking Probe Retail tycoon arrested in Canada; charges in an indictment unsealed by Manhattan federal prosecutors
2020-12-15 15:51:00 Economy Fed Says It Now Has Formal Membership in Global Climate Finance Group Joining concludes the Fed’s status as a lone hold out from a group that counts the European Central Bank, Bank of Japan, Bank of Canada and many others as members
2020-12-15 15:45:00 Risk & Compliance Journal U.K. Watchdog Fines Barclays Units $34.7 Million Over Treatment of Customers in Arrears Barclays said it has since implemented changes to its systems, processes and training and sought to redress customers
2020-12-15 15:37:00 Opinion A Simple Framework for Financial Advice A new Labor Department rule dovetails with last year’s SEC guidance to ensure that individual investors receive recommendations that are in their best interest.
2020-12-15 15:37:00 Life & Arts Are ‘Color of the Year’ Pronouncements Actually Helpful? Annually, paint manufacturers and color specialists choose a supposedly zeitgeisty hue, to great fanfare. Here, design pros debate the tradition’s merits.
2020-12-15 15:21:00 Politics Biden’s Cabinet and White House Picks: Who They Are and What We Know From West Wing to national security, president-elect has started making plans to fill his administration
2020-12-15 15:08:00 Markets Short-Term Oil-Demand Outlook in Rich Countries Is Bleak The International Energy Agency said it would be several months before Covid-19 vaccinations begin to lift oil demand
2020-12-15 15:04:00 Politics Georgia to Review Mail-in Ballot Signatures to Boost Confidence in Elections Audit of signed envelopes won’t change outcome of presidential race in state, top official says
2020-12-15 14:36:00 Markets European Bank Dividend Ban Lifted, but Restrictions Remain European banks can resume dividends next year, cautioned not to go overboard on staff bonuses
2020-12-15 14:34:00 Life & Arts How Nostalgia (and Snoop Dogg) Sparked a Retro Hockey-Jersey Craze From Adidas’s ongoing partnership with the NHL to styles by streetwear labels like Supreme, throwback jerseys are infiltrating the fashion world
2020-12-15 14:30:00 Life & Arts Giannis Antetokounmpo Decides to Stay in Milwaukee The Greek star surprised the league by agreeing to sign a five-year, $228 million deal with the Bucks that takes him off next summer’s free agent market.
2020-12-15 14:22:00 Politics McConnell Congratulates Biden, Harris on Election Win Day after Electoral College reaffirmed Biden’s victory, many top Republicans acknowledge for first time that President Trump lost his re-election bid
2020-12-15 14:12:00 Experience Report Verishop Brings Group Video Shopping to Its E-Commerce Platform The feature lets friends shop together over video and look at each other’s picks in a shared shopping bag
2020-12-15 13:25:00 Tech Tech Giants Face New Rules in Europe, Backed by Huge Fines Proposed bills would be the bloc’s most ambitious internet laws since GDPR
2020-12-15 12:51:00 Markets Big Pharma Passes Its Annual Checkup Upbeat outlooks from AbbVie and Lilly don’t depend on coronavirus drugs, which should have investors encouraged
2020-12-15 12:36:00 Opinion A New Way to Lead the Free World The authoritarian tide has risen, but a global alliance of democracies would help turn it back.
2020-12-15 12:35:00 Markets Top SEC Markets Regulator to Leave After Battling Exchanges Brett Redfearn will leave his job as director of the SEC’s trading and markets division at the end of December
2020-12-15 12:34:00 Opinion Institutions Saved the 2020 Election Trump may refuse to concede, but the judiciary and the states did their duty.
2020-12-15 12:20:00 Life & Arts Bucatini all’Amatriciana And it’s easy to see why. With its winning combination of tomatoes, guanciale and just a hint of chile, bucatini all’Amatriciana hits just the right balance of bright and rich, bold and nuanced.
2020-12-15 12:13:00 Markets Iranian Oil Exports Rise as Tehran Circumvents Sanctions, Finds New Buyers Sales have risen but remain sharply down since the U.S.’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign began
2020-12-15 12:05:00 Life & Arts This Quick Pasta Recipe Is a Roman Classic And it’s easy to see why. With its winning combination of tomatoes, guanciale and just a hint of chile, bucatini all’Amatriciana hits just the right balance of bright and rich, bold and nuanced.
2020-12-15 12:04:00 Politics More Republicans Now Say Joe Biden Is President-Elect Lawmakers’ comments come as state electors made Joe Biden’s victory official
2020-12-15 11:40:00 Life & Arts High-End City Dining Turns to Suburban Delivery During the Pandemic Meals from elite urban restaurants are traveling long distances to reach customers
2020-12-15 11:30:00 Economy Manufacturing, Mining Drive November Increase in Industrial Production Output rises 0.4% but remains below pre-pandemic levels
2020-12-15 11:04:00 Markets Europe’s New Tech Regulations Will Bite, Eventually U.S. tech giants face a growing host of new rules in the region intended to change how they operate and grow
2020-12-15 10:44:00 Life & Arts How to Help Others During This Holiday Season Here are some of the messages of hope that spiritual leaders are delivering during the pandemic
2020-12-15 10:15:00 Business Vogue’s Anna Wintour Promoted to Chief Content Officer for Condé Nast Longtime editor to take charge of global editorial operations after a year punctuated by layoffs and diversity issues
2020-12-15 09:54:00 Markets Zara’s Owner Will Feel the Chill This Winter Fast-fashion chain’s rapidly growing online business can only partly offset a fresh wave of store closures
2020-12-15 08:59:00 Markets Take-Two, Occidental Petroleum, Moderna: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today U.S. stock futures ticked higher as investors welcomed signs of progress on stimulus
2020-12-15 08:37:00 World No More Bashing Kim Jong Un’s Regime at the Border, South Korea Says Sending leaflets or other materials into North Korea without Seoul’s permission will be punishable with a fine or imprisonment
2020-12-15 08:06:00 Life & Arts Lamar Jackson Cramps, Comes Back and Saves the Ravens’ Season The reigning MVP missed most of the fourth quarter while his team lost the lead. He returned to deliver a thrilling win in a frenetic final two minutes
2020-12-15 08:00:00 Property Report A-Rod Swings for the Fences With New Hotel Real-Estate Fund Former Major League Baseball MVP Alex Rodriguez, now a real-estate mogul, joins a $650 million hotel fund
2020-12-15 08:00:00 Politics Huge Challenge Awaits Jeffrey Zients, Biden’s Coronavirus Czar Former Obama adviser helped fix Affordable Care Act website after flawed launch
2020-12-15 08:00:00 Real Estate Co-Working Volatility Is Making the Office Market More Precarious Vacancies are starting to soar, as many companies work remotely
2020-12-15 08:00:00 World Japan’s Asteroid Mission Retrieves Lots of Black Dirt Scientists find crumbly samples of the asteroid Ryugu in capsule, secure first sample of extraterrestrial gases
2020-12-15 07:48:00 Tech Suspected Russian Cyberattack Began With a Little-Known but Ubiquitous Software Company SolarWinds provides the tools many companies use to manage their computer networks. That’s what made the hack so pernicious.
2020-12-15 07:48:00 World Europe Chafes at Slow Pace of Covid-19 Vaccine Approval U.S., Canada and U.K. have started vaccinating, but the region where the Pfizer-BioNTech shot was developed is still waiting for it
2020-12-15 07:42:00 Business VW Board Backs CEO’s Electric-Car Focus Agreement puts labor tensions to rest for now, boosting VW shares
2020-12-15 07:00:00 U.S. Marriott Lays Off Hundreds of Workers at Times Square Hotel Company tells 850 employees to prepare for March 12 end date, as Covid-19 pummels New York’s hotel industry
2020-12-15 07:00:00 Pro PE Deals The Chainsmokers and Tony Hawk Back Public.com The app lets people buy fractions of stock with relatively small amounts of money, and also share their experiences and views on investing
2020-12-15 06:41:00 Markets Chinese Stimulus Won’t Do Heavy Lifting in 2021 The beginning of a global cyclical uptick might seem like a great time to own heavy industrial shares, but that part of China’s recovery is already long in the tooth
2020-12-15 06:02:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Tracking Bitcoin, Client Holiday Gifts, The Office Isn’t Going Away Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2020-12-15 05:38:00 Tech Twitter Fined $546,000 in First Cross-Border GDPR Case for U.S. Tech Firm The fine for late notification of a data breach took nearly two years to decide
2020-12-15 05:37:00 Markets Credit Suisse Bets Future on Managing More Rich People’s Money Chief Executive Thomas Gottstein laid out his vision for the Swiss bank, which has struggled to please investors in recent years
2020-12-15 05:30:00 Politics Fannie, Freddie Privatization Decisions Likely to Be Left to Biden Administration Mnuchin says Treasury is not focused on legal move to privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac before President Trump leaves office
2020-12-15 05:30:00 Business Moderna’s Covid-19 Vaccine Is Next in Line for Authorization Data on shot’s effectiveness to be released Tuesday, followed by public hearing Thursday
2020-12-15 05:30:00 Business FedEx, UPS Are Managing Surge in Packages With Strict Limits on Shippers Both carriers are posting high on-time scores in part by limiting what they pick up, creating backlogs for Costco and other shippers
2020-12-15 05:30:00 Real Estate Real Estate’s Biggest Losers Enjoy a One-Month Stock Bounce Share prices for hotels, retail and office landlords have jumped on promising vaccine results
2020-12-15 05:10:00 World Putin Acknowledges Biden’s U.S. Election Win for First Time Russia’s president says he is ready to cooperate with the incoming Biden administration
2020-12-15 04:58:00 Markets Stock Futures Rise as Investors Track Stimulus Talks Markets are reflecting muted optimism among investors that lawmakers will reach a deal on a slimmed-down relief package before the year-end holiday season
2020-12-15 01:22:00 World China’s Economy Continues Broad Recovery Despite Covid-19 Surge Elsewhere Industrial output, investment and consumer spending all grew at faster paces in November
2020-12-14 20:33:00 Politics Who Is Jeffrey Rosen, Who Will Succeed Attorney General William Barr? Deputy attorney general never worked as a prosecutor but has taken a leading role at the Justice Department in recent corporate cases
2020-12-14 20:22:00 Media & Marketing Group Nine Media Explores Blank-Check Company for Digital-Media Acquisitions Owner of digital brands such as The Dodo and NowThis is considering acquiring competitors through a special-purpose acquisition company
2020-12-14 20:09:00 Opinion Thank You, Bill Barr The Attorney General was the right man for the job in hyper-partisan times.
2020-12-14 20:08:00 Opinion An Unspecial Counsel for Hunter Biden Holding the next AG accountable for how the case is handled.
2020-12-14 20:07:00 Opinion Your New Climate 401(k) Senate Democrats lay out their green agenda for financial markets.
2020-12-14 20:07:00 Politics Biden Closes In on Picks for Key Environmental Posts President-elect will soon make his choices to head the EPA and Interior Department, among other positions
2020-12-14 20:06:00 Opinion Biden, Bibi and Bhutan Another diplomatic normalization shows Israel’s greater clout.
2020-12-14 19:32:00 Pro Cyber News Hack of Federal Agencies Shows Cyber Dangers to Supply Chains Suspected Russian campaign targeted software used by government agencies and large companies
2020-12-14 19:17:00 Business Pinterest Reaches $22.5 Million Settlement in Gender Discrimination Lawsuit Chief Operating Officer Francoise Brougher sued the company in August claiming wrongful termination and retaliation
2020-12-14 18:42:00 Business Covid-19 Vaccine’s Initial Scarcity Leads to Tough Choices for Hospitals One hospital system is using occupation, health status and a lottery to determine which employees will be first to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine
2020-12-14 18:41:00 Opinion The Left Wants a Philanthropy of the Few Major foundations back a proposal that would force smaller donors to spend down their funds.
2020-12-14 18:37:00 Opinion A Reckoning Looms for Commercial Real Estate—and Its Lenders The composition of their portfolios makes small community banks especially vulnerable.
2020-12-14 18:36:00 Opinion A Special Counsel Christmas for Hunter Biden How a Joe Biden Justice Department could investigate Biden’s son.
2020-12-14 18:36:00 Books ‘The Amateur Hour’ Review: Hire Teachers for Higher Education Want better instructors at universities and colleges? Then emphasize teaching, not research, when recruiting faculty members.
2020-12-14 18:35:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: ‘Liar’ ‘Today many in the press don’t trust their readers, listeners, and viewers to come to their own conclusions.’
2020-12-14 18:34:00 Opinion Can Biden Find Clarity on China and Russia? Shared interests help shape geopolitical rivalries, but they can’t erase them.
2020-12-14 18:28:00 Politics William Barr Resigns as Attorney General, Trump Says Nation’s top law enforcer to depart Dec. 23 after running afoul of president by keeping Hunter Biden probes out of public eye during heated election
2020-12-14 18:20:00 Tuesday Morning Wins Support for Ch. 11 Plan From Holdout Investment Firms Settlement resolves dispute with a group of investment firms that own the retailer’s trade debt
2020-12-14 18:13:00 CFO Journal Chewy’s CFO to Expand Pet Products, Explores Monetizing Telehealth Services Pet-supply retailer’s Connect With a Vet service launched about 10 weeks ago
2020-12-14 18:11:00 Logistics Report Vaccine Transport Leans on Tight Network of Refrigerated-Truck Operators The carriers are backing up FedEx and UPS delivery with specialized service on some parts of the journey for the critical doses
2020-12-14 17:26:00 Tech ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ Developer Plans Refunds for Unhappy Players The Polish company behind the $60 videogame featuring actor Keanu Reeves apologized for technical problems and pledged updates to fix bugs
2020-12-14 16:31:00 Business UAW Reaches Settlement With Feds in Multiyear Corruption Probe Civil settlement marks turning point in investigation into labor corruption in the U.S. auto industry
2020-12-14 16:28:00 Politics Wisconsin Supreme Court Denies Trump Campaign Effort to Throw Out Votes Lawsuit was among last remaining from a flurry of postelection litigation
2020-12-14 16:20:00 Life & Arts Can You Get a Covid Test at Home? Some two dozen companies are working on tests that let you sample and process results at home, including some that connect to your smartphone. But widespread use is still likely months away.
2020-12-14 16:09:00 Tech FTC Demands Social-Media, Operations Data From Big Tech Companies Amazon, Facebook, Reddit, Snap, Twitter are among those receiving letters
2020-12-14 16:08:00 Music Review ‘Man on the Moon III: The Chosen’ by Kid Cudi Review: Making Personal Problems Sound Good The Cleveland-born rapper’s latest album offers his usual self-reflection held aloft by gorgeous melodies.
2020-12-14 16:06:00 U.S. Suspected Russian Hack Said to Have Gone Undetected for Months The hack of U.S. agencies and firms was met with alarm by current and former intelligence officials and others
2020-12-14 15:59:00 Politics U.S. Sanctions Turkish Entities Over Acquisition of Russian Defense System Move, required by congressional legislation, is latest sign of growing rift between Ankara and its NATO allies
2020-12-14 15:54:00 Business Boeing Widens 787 Dreamliner Inspections After Finding More Assembly-Line Defects Federal regulators determine defects don’t pose an immediate safety risk, but added scrutiny has slowed deliveries
2020-12-14 15:08:00 Life & Arts Did Catherine Deneuve Design the Ultimate Zoom Shirt? A few reasons why this blouse from the actress’s collaboration with French brand A.P.C. will pop on video calls
2020-12-14 14:45:00 Politics Bipartisan Group to Unveil Covid Aid Legislation State and local aid to be paired with liability shield in one bill, leaving less controversial measures for separate package
2020-12-14 14:24:00 Business Google Now Sees Employees Returning to Offices in September Tech giant will test allowing staff to work from home for part of each week
2020-12-14 14:00:00 Art Review The Best Buildings of 2020 With Architecture’s Future Under a Cloud Museums and memorials wowed this year, but, in a socially distanced world, designers are rethinking their approach to built spaces.
2020-12-14 13:44:00 Opinion After Covid-19 Health care workers start receiving a vaccine. Congress is still debating how to manage the virus economy.
2020-12-14 13:43:00 Business Unilever to Give Investors Advisory Vote on Climate-Change Plan Dove soap maker responds to growing interest in net-zero emissions efforts, but poll doesn’t require company to make changes
2020-12-14 13:42:00 Bed Bath & Beyond to Sell Cost Plus World Market Chain New $150 million accelerated share-repurchase program also approved
2020-12-14 13:08:00 Opinion The Bipartisan Moral Rot of America’s Institutions Media discover the Hunter Biden story, and the GOP falls in line with Trump’s futile election challenge.
2020-12-14 13:07:00 Markets Planet Fitness Needs to Flatten More Curves The gym chain has survived in a disastrous year for competitors, but investors seem unaware that the pandemic has seriously dented its business prospects
2020-12-14 13:07:00 Business Adidas Explores Sale of Reebok Nearly 15 years after acquiring the U.S. brand and trying to revamp it, Adidas says it might sell it
2020-12-14 13:06:00 Opinion Trump Isn’t the One Politicizing Science Antimalarials seemed promising, then failed in trials. That’s how it’s supposed to work.
2020-12-14 12:46:00 World Rollout of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine Slows in U.K. Due to Allergic-Reaction Monitoring Local doctors must monitor each patient for 15 minutes after the injection, following two severe reactions on the U.K. campaign’s first day
2020-12-14 12:32:00 Business Exxon Promises to Cut Greenhouse-Gas Emissions, End Flaring by 2030 Struggling oil giant said it planned to reduce ‘intensity’ of its emissions after calls for more action, transparency
2020-12-14 11:30:00 Life & Arts When Will Covid Vaccines Be Available for Kids? A vaccine for adults and older teens has been authorized. But younger children will have to wait. Here’s what parents need to know.
2020-12-14 11:16:00 Politics U.S. Sanctions Iranian Intelligence Officers Over Abduction of Former FBI Agent Action is first public move to hold Iran accountable for abduction of Robert Levinson, who went missing in 2007
2020-12-14 11:13:00 Politics As Electors Gather, Cold Numbers Show What Really Happened in 2020 Voters in the moderate center—not those out on the wings—determined the outcome of the presidential election
2020-12-14 11:08:00 Economy NY Fed: Expected Household Spending Levels Jump to Highest Level Since 2016
2020-12-14 10:36:00 Opinion How Perilous Is China’s Threat to the U.S.? we need China and the U.S. to work together to thrive.
2020-12-14 10:28:00 Markets New Data Rules Aren’t the Whole Tale of the Tape for Exchange Stocks New SEC rules bringing more competition to market data feeds may threaten some stock-exchange revenues, but a longer-term opportunity might await investors in exchange companies
2020-12-14 10:27:00 World Israel-Sudan Deal: Sudan Removed From U.S. Terrorism List Agreement to normalize relations adds to U.S.-brokered realignment in Middle East
2020-12-14 10:25:00 Opinion Debating the FDA’s Vaccine Approval Delay A one-month timeline from submission to approval is a lightning-fast review for an application that must be several thousands of pages.
2020-12-14 09:04:00 Markets Virgin Galactic, Alexion, Pluralsight, Pfizer: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today U.S. stock futures rose on optimism surrounding stimulus and vaccine rollouts
2020-12-14 09:00:00 Tech Apple Fitness+ Review: Great, Affordable Workouts—for Watch Owners Only The $10-a-month app takes on at-home fitness for a competitive price but with an expensive catch
2020-12-14 08:53:00 Life & Arts Northwestern Football Versus the World (and, More Alarmingly, Ohio State) The 6-1 Wildcats are a footnote—and a 20.5-point underdog—in a hastily revised Big Ten finale. They’re accustomed to the disrespect.
2020-12-14 08:37:00 Tech Google Suffers Widespread Outage Affecting Gmail, YouTube, Other Services Users of several of the Alphabet-owned company’s services report being unable to access them
2020-12-14 08:37:00 Politics Georgia Senate Runoffs Early Voting Begins as Requests for Mail-In Ballots Top 1 Million More than 200,000 voters already have cast their ballots in the Jan. 5 contests
2020-12-14 08:20:00 World Singapore Aims to Vaccinate Population for Covid-19 by End of 2021 Inoculations for city-state will likely take about a year, with shots arriving in batches through the third quarter of next year
2020-12-14 08:19:00 Politics Barr Kept Biden Probes From Public to Avoid Election Politics In preventing leaks, attorney general hewed to Justice Department practice and defied his critics’ view of him
2020-12-14 08:14:00 World An Italian Student Was Murdered in Egypt. Italy Says It Has Solved the Mystery. Italian prosecutors’ investigation into the torture and killing of Giulio Regeni in Cairo is shining a light on Egypt’s human-rights abuses
2020-12-14 08:00:00 Real Estate Blackstone Raises Wager on Life Sciences With $3.5 Billion Property Deal Private-equity firm agrees to buy portfolio of buildings from Brookfield Asset Management
2020-12-14 07:50:00 Markets U.S. Stock Futures Rise on Stimulus Hopes, Vaccine Rollout British pound rallied after EU and U.K. officials said talks remain underway for a post-Brexit trade agreement
2020-12-14 07:00:00 Business Steel Orders Jump After Covid-19 Slowdown Increased demand from manufacturers has delayed shipments, restarted mills and led to higher prices
2020-12-14 06:02:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Crazy Year in Investing, Office Parties Still On — and Awkward, RV Parking Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2020-12-14 06:00:00 U.S. Henry Paulson: How to Fix Our Relationship With China The former Treasury secretary says if the U.S. can defeat Covid-19 and fix its economy, it will be a dominant world power no matter what China does
2020-12-14 05:30:00 Politics Covid-19 Vaccinations in the U.S. Slated to Begin Monday With the first Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine vials set to arrive, some hospitals plan to start administering shots within hours
2020-12-14 05:30:00 Finance ‘The Best Year Ever’: 2020 Was Surprisingly Good to Small Banks A large share of government relief for businesses and consumers ended up at community banks, boosting deposits and loans
2020-12-14 05:30:00 World Fighting Wildfires in Australia Goes High Tech With Drones, Sensors and Satellites As the fire season looms, researchers are looking to new technology to move beyond ‘detecting fires with people in towers and binoculars’
2020-12-14 05:30:00 Business Cruises and Covid-19: When U.S. Sailings Could Restart and What Safety Precautions Are Expected Carnival, other operators are looking to resume trips next year, but health officials say cruises are high risk and require changes first
2020-12-14 05:30:00 Risk & Compliance Journal SEC Schedules Vote on Controversial Extractive Industry Rule The latest version of the rule seeks to reduce the compliance burden on oil, gas and mining companies, but has drawn opposition from anticorruption advocates
2020-12-14 05:30:00 Politics Electoral College Meets in Formal Step Toward Biden Presidency President Trump has repeatedly questioned the election outcome, and other Republicans say the legal process should play out
2020-12-14 04:58:00 Markets The U.S.-China Tech War Won’t End Under Biden A softer touch is likely, but Democrats and Republicans share concerns about the threat to core American industries and China’s techno-authoritarian ambitions
2020-12-14 04:56:00 World Explosion Hits Oil Tanker at Saudi Port Singapore-flagged ship could have lost some oil though no one on board was hurt, operator says
2020-12-14 04:33:00 Markets Meal Kits Face Competition From the Microwave Sales of ready meals are growing faster than dinner boxes, even before a vaccine rollout likely cuts the time consumers spend cooking from scratch
2020-12-13 22:55:00 Markets Vista Equity Partners Agrees to Buy Software Maker Pluralsight The deal values Pluralsight at $20.26 a share, or $3.5 billion including debt, the companies said
2020-12-13 22:44:00 Markets Huntington Bancshares Agrees to Merge With TCF Financial The all-stock deal would be the latest in a recent string of regional-bank tie-ups
2020-12-13 21:36:00 Tech Reddit Snaps Up Dubsmash to Expand in Fast-Growing Video App Market The social-media company is looking to grow its user base with more TikTok-like video
2020-12-13 21:20:00 Life & Arts Cleveland’s Major League Baseball Team Will Drop Its Indians Nickname The moniker has been the subject of protest by fans and Native American groups who criticized it as racist
2020-12-13 20:00:00 Life & Arts What the Numbers Tell Us About Work Right Now Drastic changes caused by the pandemic have created a totally different job landscape in 2020, affecting productivity, diversity, mental health and more
2020-12-13 19:04:00 World Master Spy Writer John le Carré Dies at 89 His books defined the Cold War espionage thriller
2020-12-13 18:36:00 Markets Elliott Management Has Significant Stake in Public Storage Representatives of Elliott and Public Storage have had discussions in recent weeks about changes that could be made at the company
2020-12-13 18:20:00 Politics Agencies Hacked in Foreign Cyber Espionage Campaign Russia’s foreign intelligence service is suspected of being behind the hacks
2020-12-13 18:06:00 Opinion The Biden Team Strikes Back Its strategists promote an identity politics campaign against an op-ed on Jill Biden’s use of ‘Dr.’
2020-12-13 18:03:00 Opinion George Shultz Helped Democracy Flourish in Asia Reagan’s secretary of state also worked to restore balance to the American relationship with China.
2020-12-13 18:01:00 Opinion Antibodies as Covid Insurance A stockpile of medications from Regeneron and Eli Lilly to prepare in case vaccines aren’t enough.
2020-12-13 18:00:00 Opinion Tear Down This Judicial Paywall Federal courts charge 10 cents a page to read public records.
2020-12-13 17:59:00 Opinion Dear NASA: What’s in It for Me? Space exploration could provide big technological benefits, but we’re still waiting.
2020-12-13 17:57:00 Opinion Coexistence Comes to an Israeli Soccer Field Beitar Jerusalem fans once shouted, ‘Death to the Arabs!’ Now one owns half the team.
2020-12-13 17:55:00 Opinion On the One Hand, There’s a Pandemic . . . On the other, I’m all thumbs because I can use only one of them.
2020-12-13 17:54:00 Books ‘Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain’ Review: Gray Matter, a User’s Manual The human brain did not evolve for thinking. Its main purpose is to regulate our physical resources and ensure our survival.
2020-12-13 17:27:00 Opinion Trump’s Challenge Is Over After losing at the Supreme Court, he has no legal alternatives and ought to concede.
2020-12-13 17:26:00 Opinion Goodbye, Summer of Love Jenny Durkan, Seattle’s mayor, says she won’t run for re-election.
2020-12-13 17:25:00 Opinion Religious Freedom and the FBI Three Muslim men win at the Supreme Court under RFRA.
2020-12-13 17:00:00 Business Two CEOs on the Leadership Lessons From 2020 Arne Sorenson of Marriott International and Julie Sweet of Accenture on wake-up calls and being good community citizens
2020-12-13 16:38:00 Life & Arts Nobody Can Stop Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs The Kansas City quarterback had an ugly start Sunday against the Dolphins. He had an even better finish.
2020-12-13 16:14:00 Tech Covid-19 Pandemic Loosens Silicon Valley’s Tight Grip on Tech Industry A small-but-prominent roster of tech companies and investors are leaving the region
2020-12-13 15:36:00 World Iran’s Execution of Dissident Journalist Threatens Push for Diplomacy With Europe France and Germany spoke out against the execution of Ruhollah Zam, who was abducted by Iranian forces
2020-12-13 15:00:00 Life & Arts Virtual Campus Career Fairs Can Be a Tech Nightmare—and Still Yield Juicy Job Offers Screen-based meetings demand patience and new break-the-ice protocols, but you can wear gym shorts
2020-12-13 15:00:00 Economy Economy Week Ahead: Retail Sales, the Fed and Jobless Claims Observers expect China’s growth momentum to remain strong in November, while U.S. industrial production is expected to increase
2020-12-13 14:44:00 Business CNN Ratings Surge as Network Boss’s Fate Is Uncertain A month after the election, CNN holds leads in key ratings categories; President Jeff Zucker made aware of investor interest in network
2020-12-13 14:04:00 Opinion The ‘Dr.’ Is in—the Next First Lady Earned It Joseph Epstein’s article comes across as a put-down, an attempt to diminish the achievements of a woman who is to be respected and admired.
2020-12-13 14:03:00 Opinion Pope Francis’s Silence on China’s Persecution It may be that you can take a pope out of Argentina, but you can’t take Argentina out of a pope.
2020-12-13 14:02:00 Politics Congressional Leaders Weigh Narrow Covid-19 Relief Bill Sen. Joe Manchin said a bipartisan group spoke Saturday about their proposal, ‘and we’ll be on the call again this afternoon to finish things up.’
2020-12-13 13:07:00 World Afghan Forces Kill Dozens of Taliban Fighters Following Break in Peace Talks The ministry of defense said delegation is investigating claims that an airstrike had killed civilians
2020-12-13 13:00:00 Opinion The Best Theater of 2020: With Broadway Dark Due to Covid-19, an At-Home Curtain Call Broadway went dark and theaters shuttered due to Covid-19; then creative companies nationwide started putting stunning shows online.
2020-12-13 13:00:00 Economy Congress Eyes Targeted Coronavirus Aid for Small Businesses Proposals would focus on smaller firms that can show they have been hurt by economic downturn
2020-12-13 12:09:00 Business Sizzling Tech IPO Market Leaves Investors Befuddled DoorDash and Airbnb both rocketed in their public debuts. Now, Roblox has pulled its offering as questions mount about soaring valuations.
2020-12-13 12:00:00 Art Review How Art Lovers Weathered the Coronavirus Pandemic in 2020 With galleries and museums closed due to Covid-19, online offerings blossomed—giving viewers the chance to experience outstanding exhibitions and masterpieces in a new, digital way.
2020-12-13 11:00:00 Life & Arts How to Make Your Client Holiday Gift Mean Something This Year Companies, with Covid’s toll on their minds, are devoting their holiday gift budgets to something more thoughtful than that giant tub of popcorn
2020-12-13 11:00:00 World Covid-19 Poses Christmas Quandary for Families Debates fly over whether and how to celebrate together as officials try to limit travel and gatherings
2020-12-13 10:53:00 World Indian iPhone Factory Attacked by Angry Workers Labor leaders say workers were upset about wages and working hours
2020-12-13 10:48:00 U.S. The Mass Distribution of Covid-19 Vaccines Is Under Way. ‘Everything Has to Come Together.’ Mobilization involves factory workers, truck drivers, pilots, dry ice, ultracold freezers and plenty of needles. A lot can go wrong.
2020-12-13 10:48:00 Tech In India, Facebook Fears Crackdown on Hate Groups Could Backfire on Its Staff Social media giant’s security team cites possible attacks if extremist Hindu groups are kicked off platform
2020-12-13 10:00:00 Markets What Is Bitcoin Worth? There Is Little Consensus in Fragmented Market Digital currency’s resurgence spurs demand for better tracking tools
2020-12-13 10:00:00 Politics Arizona Republicans Are Racked by Infighting Over Trump, Coronavirus Party leaders trade personal insults; ‘enjoy your time as permanent resident of Crazytown’
2020-12-13 09:30:00 CFO Journal Without In-Person Interactions, Companies Find Virtual Ways to Integrate After M&A As deal making soars, companies are looking for ways to connect teams and share a combined vision
2020-12-13 08:33:00 World U.K., EU Leaders Extend Marathon Brexit Talks ‘We think it is responsible at this point to go the extra mile,’ say British prime minister and European Commission president
2020-12-13 08:00:00 Economy Vaccine Boosts Fed Confidence That Worst-Case Outcomes Can Be Avoided Officials this week could discuss how to balance risks of a growth stall this winter with a bigger rebound later in 2021
2020-12-13 05:43:00 Markets Reclusive Billionaire’s Bond Bets Backfire Mark Coombs built a nearly $100 billion investment franchise that is now under attack as competitors short its stock and clients like Goldman Sachs exit
2020-12-13 05:30:00 U.S. U.S. Poised for Wave of Evictions in January as Federal Ban Expires Between 2.4 million and 5 million American households are at risk in January alone
2020-12-13 05:30:00 Politics Getting Covid Vaccines to People Will Cost States Billions They Don’t Have Federal government is providing vaccines and some supplies, but states must hire medical workers, set up clinics, provide community outreach
2020-12-13 05:30:00 Markets America’s Small Stocks Are Leading the Market’s Charge Russell 2000 bounces back from a spring nosedive to log a 15% gain so far this year, surpassing the S&P 500
2020-12-12 22:45:00 Politics Trump Supporters Protest Biden Election Win; Skirmishes Erupt at Night Washington unrest follows Supreme Court’s rejection of president’s last chance to overturn vote results
2020-12-12 19:18:00 Politics Iowans Fault Democratic National Committee for Role in Caucus Debacle A report says the DNC demanded late changes to the reporting system Iowa Democrats planned to use
2020-12-12 18:13:00 World Charley Pride, Country Music’s First Black Star, Dies at Age 86 The singer won three Grammy Awards and had more than 30 No. 1 hits between 1969 and 1984
2020-12-12 17:45:00 World Photos of the Week: Airbnb Stock Price Soars, U.K. Begins Rollout of Pfizer’s Covid-19 Vaccine, Hanukkah Celebrations Begin and More A selection of photos from Dec. 6 through Dec. 12 by The Wall Street Journal’s photo editors
2020-12-12 16:05:00 World Peru Halts Trial for Chinese Covid-19 Vaccine Health Ministry says trial for Sinopharm vaccine was temporarily suspended after a volunteer presented neurological problems
2020-12-12 15:11:00 Business Affirm Postpones Its Initial Public Offering The point-of-sale lender is the second company in as many days to pull back from the IPO market
2020-12-12 13:28:00 Markets AstraZeneca’s Alexion Splurge Could Attract a Crowd The drug giant’s bid for rare-disease specialist Alexion should please shareholders if the company doesn’t find itself in a bidding war
2020-12-12 13:04:00 Business Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccines Are Prepped for Shipment As coronavirus pandemic surges around the U.S., hospitals are gearing up to receive doses of the first vaccine after it got an FDA green light
2020-12-12 12:48:00 CMO Today NFL Ratings Drop Leaves Networks Scrambling to Make Advertisers Whole TV networks are using ad inventory to make good on their earlier audience commitments
2020-12-12 12:01:00 Life & Arts How Autism and Invention Are Connected Our unique ability to analyze patterns is at the root of a psychological disability and the talent that drives human development
2020-12-12 12:00:00 Television Review The Best Television of 2020: Binge-Watching Our Way Through Quarantine Shut in at home, many of us had more time than ever to watch great TV—and there was more than enough of it, from ‘I May Destroy You’ to ‘The Queen’s Gambit.’
2020-12-12 11:36:00 U.S. Veterans Groups Call for VA Secretary’s Dismissal Top veterans advocacy groups and some Democratic lawmakers call for Robert Wilkie’s removal after investigation found he mishandled sexual-assault investigation
2020-12-12 11:00:00 U.S. Jay Leno on How Driving Changed in 2020—and How It Will Change Even More The comedian and car lover offers his predictions for electric cars and driverless technology
2020-12-12 10:10:00 Business The Best-Managed Companies of 2020—and How They Got That Way Microsoft is on top, followed by Apple, IBM and Amazon in the Drucker Institute’s annual Management Top 250 ranking
2020-12-12 10:03:00 Markets Dividends Will Have Their Day Again Dividend-paying stocks haven’t been superstars lately and in theory they shouldn’t be, but companies that pay them could shine once more
2020-12-12 09:00:00 World Shutting Borders Helped Australia Contain Covid-19. Now Reopening Them Is Proving Difficult. The country wants to roll back some of the strictest domestic travel restrictions in the world, but many people wish they would stay in place
2020-12-12 08:27:00 Business AstraZeneca Agrees to Buy Alexion for $39 Billion The deal would bolster the British drug giant’s footprint in immunology and rare diseases
2020-12-12 08:03:00 Life & Arts How 79-Year-Old Martha Stewart Stays Zoom-Ready The indefatigable mogul describes her approach to beauty, wellness, social media and aging. She’s a fan of CBD products and ring lights.
2020-12-12 07:00:00 Art Review ‘Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop’ Review: A Black Community Too Long Forgotten An exhibition at the Whitney gathers the work of a Black collective from the 1960s and ’70s who sought to counter racial stereotypes through their luminous photography.
2020-12-12 07:00:00 Music Review Concerts for a Covid Christmas Several choirs and ensembles in England and the U.S. are offering virtual performances this holiday season, including renditions of Handel’s ‘Messiah.’
2020-12-12 05:35:00 World For One Prized Italian Tradition, Covid Deals a Heartbreaking Blow Artisans clustered along a Naples street have been crafting Nativity scenes for more than a century. But coronavirus restrictions and a dearth of tourists are threatening their survival.
2020-12-12 05:30:00 Markets When the Robinhood Crowd Buys for the Long Haul Some new investors are using fractional-share buying programs as a way to get broad exposure to stocks through exchange-traded funds
2020-12-12 05:30:00 Business Gargling Could Slow Covid-19 Spread, Mouthwash Makers Say Mouthwash could deactivate the coronavirus in the mouth, company studies show, but some question lab findings’ impact on real-life transmission
2020-12-11 22:57:00 Business Pfizer, BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine Is Authorized in the U.S. FDA’s thumbs-up—first for coronavirus vaccine in U.S.—will pave way for shots to be administered within day or two
2020-12-11 22:46:00 Election 2020 Trump Pursues Appointing Special Counsel to Probe Election, Hunter Biden President has expressed frustration with Attorney General William Barr as efforts to overturn election have failed
2020-12-11 22:15:00 IPOs Roblox Delays IPO Until Next Year Videogame company, citing Airbnb and DoorDash market debuts, says it is too difficult to price its shares
2020-12-11 20:45:00 Markets DoorDash, Facebook, Walt Disney: Stocks That Defined the Week Here are seven major companies whose stocks moved on the week’s news
2020-12-11 20:29:00 Markets State Street, UBS Are in Talks to Merge Asset-Management Businesses Firms had appeared to be close to reaching an agreement this summer
2020-12-11 19:40:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Congress Approves Anti-Money-Laundering Measure New rules would require many companies to disclose the identities of the true beneficiary of their operations
2020-12-11 19:16:00 Artificial Intelligence Alexa Has a New Skill: Asking When It Doesn’t Know ‘Interactive teaching’ enables Amazon’s voice-assistant to solicit information when it encounters an unknown phrase. (Right now, it only works for lighting and temperature.)
2020-12-11 18:43:00 Opinion The Restaurant Lockdown Massacre New shutdown orders punish minorities and low-income workers.
2020-12-11 18:43:00 Tech Oracle Moves Corporate Headquarters to Austin, Texas Effort to have ‘more flexible employee work location policy’ leads to latest Silicon Valley exit
2020-12-11 18:42:00 Opinion Hong Kong’s Freedom Fighters Jimmy Lai is charged under a security law for criticizing China.
2020-12-11 18:41:00 Opinion Another Green Subsidy Bust An Obama-era solar failure could cost taxpayers $510 million.
2020-12-11 18:40:00 Opinion Misleading Washington’s Voters on Race An new state effort to overturn a law banning race preferences.
2020-12-11 18:38:00 Markets Tesla to Replace Real-Estate Stock in S&P 500 When it takes the place of Apartment Investment & Management, Tesla will be the biggest-ever single-stock addition to the index
2020-12-11 17:57:00 Opinion Hollywood Learns to Love ‘Churn’ Movie-industry types are aghast at AT&T’s galumphing moves but may soon see dollar signs.
2020-12-11 17:56:00 Opinion Is There a Doctor in the White House? Not if You Need an M.D. Jill Biden should think about dropping the honorific, which feels fraudulent, even comic.
2020-12-11 17:54:00 Pro Bankruptcy Coal Miner Blackjewel Accuses Ex-CEO of Self-Dealing Coal company files lawsuit accusing Jeff Hoops Sr., who resigned days after chapter 11 filing, of using his position to enrich himself at the miner’s expense
2020-12-11 17:52:00 Books ‘Strongmen’ Review: Nostalgia, Virility and Power Can a group portrait of modern tyrants tell us how to prevent their outrages?
2020-12-11 17:51:00 Books ‘Alexander von Humboldt and the United States’ Review: American Cosmos How the Prussian explorer, naturalist and polymath taught America about itself.
2020-12-11 17:50:00 Books Two Books on Travels in the New North Unsentimental looks at human adaptation and the life of a mother polar bear in a changing Arctic.
2020-12-11 17:43:00 Business Filing Facebook Lawsuit Is Career-Defining Act for FTC Chairman Joseph Simons, who doesn’t seek limelight, previously rebuffed Trump over alleged suppression of conservative speech on tech platforms
2020-12-11 17:34:00 Books Leaders in Literature, Politics and Arts Share Their Favorite Books of 2020 What Brit Bennett, Douglas Stuart, Rahm Emanuel, Kim Cattrall and others read this year
2020-12-11 17:28:00 Opinion An Old Friendship and a Communist Crackdown Beijing’s dictatorship takes aim at political dissent and economic liberty.
2020-12-11 17:13:00 Markets Home-Equity Loans and Home-Equity Lines of Credit: How They Work and When to Use Them
2020-12-11 16:52:00 Markets When the Stock Market Is Too Much Fun Robinhood sure is entertaining. But it’s also steering investors toward risky behaviors that could go wrong.
2020-12-11 16:48:00 Business California Seeks to Join Justice Department Antitrust Case Against Google State files papers to join suit alleging company is engaged in unlawful monopolization
2020-12-11 16:38:00 Politics Trump Campaign Loses Wisconsin Election Lawsuit State judge says partial recount was fairly conducted, rejects request to throw out 220,000 votes in Democratic counties
2020-12-11 16:37:00 Politics Biden Cabinet Gets Mixed Grade So Far From Progressive Groups As the president-elect unveils his latest picks, activists talk up candidates for remaining jobs
2020-12-11 16:36:00 Opinion Barr and the Perception of Electoral Fairness While your editorial goes a long way to highlight the lack of hard evidence for the administration’s case, it does little to refute the overall perception of a rigged election.
2020-12-11 16:35:00 Opinion Civil Service Shouldn’t Mean Unaccountable Only in D.C. is it this controversial to suggest that federal employees be held accountable for the quality of work they perform.
2020-12-11 16:33:00 Opinion Managing Humanely in the Face of Covid-19 Lockdowns Emerson Electric Co. Chief Executive David Farr acted in the interests of his investors, workers and customers.
2020-12-11 16:25:00 Politics Biden Pick for USDA Throws Tom Vilsack Back Into Food-Policy Fight Obama-era agriculture veteran—whose selection drew praise and criticism—faces challenges as he leads farmers out of the pandemic
2020-12-11 16:24:00 Markets Apple’s Chip Dreams Haunt its Suppliers Qualcomm and other chip makers’ shares drop on latest report of Apple’s modem efforts
2020-12-11 15:55:00 Screen Time What to Watch: 11 Movies and Shows to Stream This Week Two new Meryl Streep films, a Drew Barrymore comedy, and what the director of the Sundance Film Festival watches when she’s off duty
2020-12-11 15:52:00 Opinion The High-Tax End Run Around the Arizona Constitution Out-of-state groups drop millions in support of a job-killing ballot measure to soak small businesses.
2020-12-11 15:51:00 Opinion Netflix’s True-Crime Character Assassination The streaming service wants to create a ‘cultural moment’ in documentaries that all seem to tilt left—especially against cops.
2020-12-11 15:27:00 Business Disney’s Sizzle Reel Sends Stock to New Highs Investors cheer entertainment behemoth’s plans to amp its investment in Disney+ streaming service, take on Netflix
2020-12-11 15:22:00 Politics Senate Averts Shutdown as Covid-Aid Talks Continue Lawmakers have one more week to reach deals on broader spending package, coronavirus relief
2020-12-11 15:13:00 CFO Journal Xerox Makes Its Interim Finance Chief Permanent The workplace technology provider said Xavier Heiss will become CFO on Jan. 1
2020-12-11 15:00:00 Politics Senate Approves Defense-Policy Bill Despite Trump Veto Threat President opposes provision that would lead to renaming military installations honoring Confederate figures
2020-12-11 14:42:00 Tech Tech IPO Bonanza Yields Riches for Venture-Capital Firms Sequoia Capital and others prosper as the debuts of DoorDash and Airbnb cap the most lucrative year on record for new listings
2020-12-11 14:38:00 Business Sorting Out Tony Hsieh’s Estate, From LLCs to Thousands of Sticky Notes The family of the recently deceased tech entrepreneur is trying to piece together his sprawling estate, apparently without a will
2020-12-11 14:31:00 World Covid-19 Vaccination in Europe to Roll Out Slowly Limited availability of approved vaccines dims hopes of imminent end to pandemic, economic distress
2020-12-11 14:10:00 Real Estate The Rich Rewards of Online Furniture Auctions, and How to Get Started Between eBay and Christie’s lie online auctions chockablock with bargains for your home, like an iconic Eames chair for $250. Here’s how to master that intimidating but deal-packed marketplace.
2020-12-11 14:00:00 Life & Arts Treasures of Judaica From the Sassoon Family Collection Torah shields, Hanukkah lamps and other items owned by a celebrated family from Baghdad will be auctioned at Sotheby’s next week.
2020-12-11 13:52:00 Life & Arts The Best (and Affordable) Holiday Gift Guide After a hard year, treat your loved ones to presents (all under $300) that can immediately make life easier, whether they love fashion, food, travel, tech or design
2020-12-11 13:41:00 Markets German Audit Regulator Traded Wirecard Shares During Probe Head of government agency overseeing auditors bought stock amid preliminary investigation into Wirecard auditor EY
2020-12-11 12:38:00 Masterpiece An Iconic Beacon Shines Anew A newly finished restoration of the Empire State Building gives us the chance to again appreciate the structure’s glittering brilliance.
2020-12-11 12:24:00 Markets Money Managers Pledge Portfolios to Reach Zero Emissions by 2050 Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative in Europe, representing assets of $9 trillion-plus, said it would work with clients to set interim targets
2020-12-11 12:20:00 U.S. FDA Advances Toward Covid-19 Vaccine Authorization Agency officials said they are moving rapidly to finalize the decision clearing use of the injection from Pfizer and BioNTech
2020-12-11 12:17:00 Markets Markets Wake Up to Risks of Disruptive Brexit Slide in the pound showed investor disquiet about how U.K.’s departure from EU could add to economic struggles from Covid-19 pandemic
2020-12-11 12:13:00 Markets The Art of the Last-Minute Oil Deal Bidders have little to lose in the first auction of federal leases for oil production in California in eight years.
2020-12-11 12:00:00 Music Review The Best Music of 2020: From Bob Dylan to Fiona Apple, Even Covid Couldn’t Stop the Groove With concerts and festivals canceled due to the pandemic, musical artists moved performances online and still released a trove of outstanding records.
2020-12-11 11:47:00 Life & Arts Vegetarian Chef Deborah Madison Doesn’t Like to Preach An author of cookbooks devoted to the gastronomic potential of plants still eats meat occasionally
2020-12-11 11:44:00 World Trump Wades Into Western Sahara Conflict With Morocco-Israel Deal President’s decision to recognize Moroccan sovereignty in disputed region risks instability in North Africa
2020-12-11 11:17:00 Economy U.S. Consumer Sentiment Rose in Recent Weeks Americans’ outlook brightened as people expect better economic conditions beyond the pandemic
2020-12-11 11:08:00 Books ‘Ravenna’ Review: Crossroads and Crucible The paradox of ‘a jewel in the midst of a marsh.’
2020-12-11 11:05:00 Books ‘What Becomes a Legend Most’ Review: Avedon’s Vision The photographer known for his images of the celebrated was also a chronicler of subterranean fears.
2020-12-11 11:04:00 Books Five Best: Essay Collections Selected by Phillip Lopate, editor of ‘The Glorious American Essay.’
2020-12-11 10:59:00 Life & Arts Far From Washington, Americans Are Finding Local Solutions National politics may be paralyzed by partisanship, but states, cities and ordinary citizens are coming together to get things done.
2020-12-11 10:55:00 Life & Arts What You Can Do to Protect Your Dependent-Care FSA Cash With relief bills stalled, many holders with leftover funds are in limbo—but some options exist
2020-12-11 10:10:00 Markets For DoorDash and Airbnb, More Isn’t Necessarily Merrier Robinhood effect has helped drive valuations to pie-in-the-sky levels. Gravity will kick in eventually
2020-12-11 09:51:00 Business Christmas Decorations Are in Short Supply Retailers underestimated demand for lights, ornaments and trees; begging Target to sell the gnome on display
2020-12-11 09:42:00 World Former Hong Kong Lawmaker Seeks Asylum in the U.S. as Exodus Grows Activist seeks Washington’s support for targets of China’s suppression in the city; ‘everybody in my circle is frightened’
2020-12-11 09:20:00 Life & Arts The Ultimate Guide to Ski Style Anyone with basic skills can swoosh down slopes, but why look basic doing it? Here, how to dress fashionably and functionally for your next ski trip.
2020-12-11 08:53:00 Life & Arts Despite Covid-19, Older People Are Still Happier Aging usually brings greater calm and contentment. New research shows that’s still true in 2020, even though there is more coronavirus risk for the elderly.
2020-12-11 08:45:00 Markets U.S. Stock Futures Fall Amid Talk of Disruptive Brexit Investors watch Brexit talks closely after U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned last-ditch negotiations could fail
2020-12-11 08:14:00 U.S. Brandon Bernard Executed Despite Protests Inmate the second of six scheduled to die during presidential transition
2020-12-11 08:05:00 Markets Disney, Tesla, MetLife: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today U.S. stock futures fell amid fears of a disruptive Brexit, while Disney shares surged pre-market on bullish forecast for streaming customers
2020-12-11 08:00:00 Politics Blue Coasts, Red Heartland: House Maps Show Americans Growing Apart A divided nation holds little room for Northeast Republicans, Farm Belt Democrats
2020-12-11 07:52:00 World China Detains Bloomberg News Staff Member in Beijing Haze Fan, a Chinese national, is being held on suspicion of endangering national security, news organization says
2020-12-11 07:48:00 Politics Coronavirus Debate: Should Lawmakers Get Vaccines Early? Senators and House members grapple with whether Congress should be prioritized ahead of constituents
2020-12-11 07:25:00 Life & Arts MLS, the Pandemic and American Soccer’s Longest Season After 287 days, a bubble, and a non-bubble, Major League Soccer is finally game away from closing out 2020.
2020-12-11 07:03:00 Markets Disney May Finally Make Netflix Sweat Entertainment titan’s ambitious new subscriber targets could put it past streaming pioneer
2020-12-11 07:00:00 Business Covid-19 Vaccine Makers Turn Toward Testing Children Moderna, Pfizer now include children in trials, as health experts urge more such research to help curb transmission and reopen schools
2020-12-11 06:58:00 World Hong Kong Police Charge Media Mogul Jimmy Lai With Foreign Collusion Pro-democracy stalwart becomes the highest-profile figure charged under China’s national security law
2020-12-11 06:35:00 Tech SoftBank’s Rocky Year Ends on a Winning Streak The tech investor is boosted by DoorDash IPO and buybacks that could ease the way for privatization by CEO Masayoshi Son
2020-12-11 06:31:00 Markets Oil’s Recovery Is No Sure Thing High prices will require capital discipline from the U.S. shale industry as well as a rebound in global demand
2020-12-11 06:25:00 Life & Arts New Vacation-Homes Sites That Cater to Millennials With help from tech startups, the concept of timeshare vacation homes is shaking off its stodgy old image. Even commitment-phobes might be tempted.
2020-12-11 06:00:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Health Insurers Thrive, Corporate Borrowing Eases, Historic Home Problems Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2020-12-11 05:56:00 World Israelis Flock to the Gulf, Undeterred by Government Warning of Iranian Attacks Israeli concerns come in the wake of the killing of a top Iranian scientist last month
2020-12-11 05:30:00 Markets To Sell Luxury Online, Deep Pockets Matter More Than Ever Designer labels have been forced to get better at e-commerce during the Covid pandemic. Big brands sharpened their edge the most.
2020-12-11 05:30:00 Business The Dicey Economics of Investing in Oil During Covid-19 Even before a pandemic sapped the world’s thirst for crude, fossil-fuel producers faced threats from renewable energy, electric vehicles and worries about climate change. Is now the time to strike, or slip away?
2020-12-11 05:30:00 Business Whose Workers Are Most Essential? Meatpackers, Airlines Lobby for Covid-19 Vaccine Priority With states largely determining how to allocate doses after front-line health workers, employers and trade groups contend for access to initial supplies
2020-12-11 05:30:00 Politics Earmarks Get Makeover Before Possible Return Proposal would add accountability, transparency to process by having constituents work with lawmakers to apply for ‘community-focused grants’
2020-12-11 05:14:00 Markets MetLife to Sell Home-Insurance Unit to Zurich for $4 Billion Deal comes as insurers globally examine options due to the impact of the coronavirus
2020-12-10 22:58:00 World U.S., EU to Impose Sanctions on Turkey Over Missile System, Energy EU stopped short of adopting the broader economic sanctions against Ankara requested by some of its members
2020-12-10 21:19:00 Politics Barr Worked to Keep Hunter Biden Probes From Public View During Election The attorney general knew for months about investigations into Biden’s business and financial dealings
2020-12-10 19:31:00 CIO Journal Facebook Lawsuits Take Aim at Data-Sharing Tool Key to Digital Economy In the spotlight: The glue binding big software platforms to users
2020-12-10 19:19:00 CFO Journal Broadcom Elevates Accounting Chief to CFO The chip maker’s current finance chief will run a new group overseeing software operations
2020-12-10 18:54:00 Opinion Breaking Up Facebook The feds want a do-over for acquisitions they previously approved.
2020-12-10 18:52:00 Opinion AOC’s Latest Achievement Goya honors Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as Employee of the Month.
2020-12-10 18:51:00 Opinion Texas Tries an Election Long Shot Can a state be harmed by the way other states conduct their elections?
2020-12-10 18:50:00 Opinion The Hunter Biden Business The story the press ignored returns in time for Joe’s Presidency.
2020-12-10 18:46:00 Opinion Mrs. Smith’s Tips for New Lawmakers As Washington readies for the 117th Congress, its members can learn from a 20th-century great.
2020-12-10 18:45:00 Opinion India Throws a Trudeau Tantrum Sikh separatist history and Canadian domestic politics fuel a transoceanic dispute.
2020-12-10 18:44:00 Business Costco Keeps Drawing Homebound Shoppers Comparable sales jump 17% in the latest quarter as Americans spend more on food, appliances and homegoods
2020-12-10 18:41:00 U.S. Facebook Case Presents Test for Antitrust Enforcement, Federal Courts Judiciary will have the last word on bipartisan allegations that Facebook illegally maintains a monopoly
2020-12-10 18:32:00 Opinion A Shot (Instead of Two) at Saving Lives Waiting on the Covid booster would allow more people to be vaccinated sooner.
2020-12-10 18:31:00 Opinion Now Is as Good a Time as Any for the U.S. to Quit Afghanistan Whether American forces stay or leave, the fighting is guaranteed to continue. Why not cut our losses?
2020-12-10 18:31:00 Business Ferrari CEO Louis Camilleri Resigns After Bout With Covid-19 Mr. Camilleri, 65, took over Ferrari in 2018 after Sergio Marchionne died from complications linked to surgery
2020-12-10 18:30:00 Opinion ‘Happy Holidays’ Is Pro-Christmas Advent and Epiphany are also holy days. Why not call them all what they are?
2020-12-10 18:30:00 Opinion Judge Sullivan’s Final ‘Verdict’ A presidential pardon prompts a norm-busting outburst from the bench.
2020-12-10 18:29:00 Books ‘Brazil That Never Was’ Review: His Own Private Amazon A British neurologist explores his passionate identification with the reckless adventurer Percy Harrison Fawcett.
2020-12-10 18:26:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: Senate Snitching ‘He installed a trusted former aide, Max Young, to ‘embed’ in the Judiciary Committee to make sure the hearings didn’t go off the rails.’
2020-12-10 18:19:00 Business Lululemon Gets Another Sales Bump From Cooped-Up Shoppers Comparable sales jumped 19%, driven by online shopping, amid continued demand for yoga pants and other at-home gear
2020-12-10 18:18:00 Books The Best Books of 2020: Politics A diagnosis of entitlement culture, the story of populist radio and more of the year’s standouts.
2020-12-10 18:17:00 Books The Best Books of 2020: Children’s Books From picture-book travels to fantastic adventures, a treasure-filled year of reading.
2020-12-10 18:15:00 Books The Best Books of 2020: Science Fiction From far-flung worlds to an eerie setting close to home, our columnist picks this year’s stellar reading.
2020-12-10 18:14:00 Books The Best Books of 2020: Mysteries A thriller of World War II Paris, the return of Inspector Gamache and more of the year in crime fiction.
2020-12-10 17:51:00 Life & Arts ‘Doomscrolling’: A Twitter Habit Is the New, High-Tech Way to Slide Into Despair The impulse to constantly check phone screens for bad news only got its name in the last few years
2020-12-10 17:48:00 Tech Break Up Facebook? It’s Complicated, Tech Experts Say. Splitting off Instagram and WhatsApp potentially would involve years of engineering and legal work
2020-12-10 17:46:00 Risk & Compliance Journal U.S. Sanctions Accused Human Rights Abusers in Several Countries Russian, Chinese, Houthi officials and former officials among figures earning U.S. reproval
2020-12-10 17:25:00 Business Disney+ Has 86.8 Million Subscribers Globally, CEO Bob Chapek Says Streaming service has added 13 million members since October
2020-12-10 17:09:00 World Joseph Safra, Banking Empire Founder and Brazil’s Richest Man, Has Died The Safra brothers built up banks in Latin America, New York and Switzerland that catered discreetly to ultrarich clients
2020-12-10 16:58:00 World Beirut Explosion: What Happened in Lebanon and Everything Else We Know Warehouse fire ignited a cache of explosive ammonium nitrate, authorities say, leading to more than two dozen arrests but no ministers among them
2020-12-10 16:53:00 Politics Joe Biden Names Susan Rice to Lead White House Domestic Policy Council President-elect tasks Obama-era veteran with mapping his agenda on issues including health care and climate change
2020-12-10 16:53:00 Opinion Gov. Jindal, Health-Care Policy and the GOP Expand the choices.
2020-12-10 16:52:00 Opinion Consider Student Loans as Any Investment The only thing that hits parents harder than college-loan debt is sacrificing for 20 years to avoid borrowing in the first place.
2020-12-10 16:33:00 World Lebanon Leader Charged With Negligence for Beirut Explosion Judge investigating deadly blast at port charges Hassan Diab and three former ministers
2020-12-10 16:32:00 Business Airbnb’s Stock Price More Than Doubles in Market Debut IPO ends difficult year for the home-sharing company, which has had to readjust its business amid travel downturn because of Covid-19
2020-12-10 16:17:00 Politics Unanimous Justices Rule Muslim Men Can Sue Agents for Putting Them on No-Fly List In separate case, Supreme Court finds no time restrictions on rape charges in military
2020-12-10 15:56:00 World Brazil to Allow Vaccine Makers to Seek Emergency Authorization The move by the Anvisa health authority comes as states try to secure vaccines themselves
2020-12-10 15:55:00 Books Bestselling Books Week Ended December 5 With data from NPD BookScan
2020-12-10 15:49:00 CMO Today LinkedIn Starts Testing Ads in ‘Stories’ The professional-networking platform wants users and brands to adopt a format known for its casual, personal nature
2020-12-10 15:47:00 Opinion Emmanuel Macron’s Secular Solution Isn’t Working With Islam A more promising path for integrating Islam into French society is the laïcité positive advocated by former president Nicolas Sarkozy.
2020-12-10 15:46:00 Markets Corporate America’s Borrowing Binge May Be Ending Net new supply of new bonds could hit the lowest level since 2002 next year—a potential headache for bond fund managers
2020-12-10 15:45:00 Opinion The GOP Abandoned Fiscal Discipline Long, Long Ago The redistributionists on the right long ago lost the ability to cry foul over spending.
2020-12-10 15:41:00 Business Amazon Wants to Train 29 Million People to Work in the Cloud New programs seek to help people from Montana to Nigeria attain roles ranging from tech support to machine learning
2020-12-10 15:29:00 Politics Trump Bets on Long-Shot Texas Election Lawsuit Supreme Court expected to decide quickly whether to allow Texas attorney general and 17 other Republican-leaning states to press its claims
2020-12-10 15:27:00 World Israel and Morocco Agree to Normalize Relations, Trump Says Deal required U.S. recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over disputed Western Sahara
2020-12-10 15:26:00 World Boris Johnson Warns Brexit Talks Could Fail as EU Sets No-Deal Plans British prime minister’s warning comes as bloc sets out proposed terms to ease expected travel delays
2020-12-10 15:25:00 CIO Journal Smarter Cars: Auto Makers Experiment With Chips That Think Like Humans Mercedes-Benz is exploring how neuromorphic chips could bring new AI capabilities to its vehicles
2020-12-10 15:25:00 Politics Many Biden Cabinet Picks Are Veterans of Obama Administration President-elect taps officials with experience in last Democratic White House
2020-12-10 15:07:00 Life & Arts Steven Soderbergh on ‘Let Them All Talk’ and the Future of Movie Theaters The Oscar-winning director and writer discusses Covid, collages and why anyone with an iPhone can be in the film business
2020-12-10 15:05:00 Politics House Leaders Clash Over Swalwell’s Role in China Spy Probe Pelosi defends California Democratic lawmaker from McCarthy’s criticism; no accusation of wrongdoing
2020-12-10 14:50:00 Markets Brent Crude Rises Above $50 as Oil’s Turnaround Continues Thursday’s advance continues a monthslong rebound from oil’s April lows around $19 a barrel during global economic shutdowns
2020-12-10 14:39:00 Film Review ‘The Midnight Sky’ Review: Reaching Out in the Void George Clooney directs and stars in this post-apocalypic saga that intertwines the stories of an Arctic researcher, returning astronauts, and a mysterious little girl.
2020-12-10 14:37:00 Economy U.S. Household Net Worth Hits Record in Third Quarter Household net worth grew to $123.52 trillion, according to Fed’s Flow of Funds report, as growth in household debt rose 5.6%
2020-12-10 14:37:00 Opinion ‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning’ Review: A Culture-War Conversation Piece In Will Arbery’s singular, sympathetic play, young conservative intellectuals gather to discuss their post-graduate lives and political concerns in the age of Trump.
2020-12-10 14:36:00 Politics CFTC Chairman Heath Tarbert to Resign, Remain at the Derivatives Regulator Republicans could retain control of the commission until 2022, despite transfer of power in the White House
2020-12-10 14:35:00 Politics House Panel Accuses Trump Administration of Concealing Evidence in CDC Coronavirus Probe Senior official tells subcommittee she was told to delete email showing political meddling in key report
2020-12-10 14:35:00 Film Review ‘Let Them All Talk’ Review: Celebs Adrift Steven Soderbergh’s microbudget, improvised comedy about old friends reuniting on a trans-Atlantic cruise stars Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen and Dianne Wiest.
2020-12-10 14:33:00 Television Review ‘Total Control’ Review: A Struggle Down Under Conflicts over political power and indigenous rights lie at the center of Sundance Now’s new drama.
2020-12-10 14:31:00 Film Review ‘Gunda’ Review: A Pig’s Life Victor Kossakovsky’s documentary takes a sow as its subject to tell the story of agriculture and industrial farming.
2020-12-10 14:24:00 U.S. VA Secretary Robert Wilkie Mishandled Sexual Assault Claim, Report Finds Monthslong investigation finds the secretary disparaged the woman making the allegation
2020-12-10 14:22:00 Politics Mnuchin Defends Coronavirus-Relief Loan to Troubled Trucking Firm YRC Treasury secretary said taxpayers will get their money back
2020-12-10 14:18:00 Politics Covid-19 Aid Bill Negotiators Seek Compromise on Liability Shield Lawmakers hope to reach roughly $900 billion deal before holiday break
2020-12-10 14:17:00 Economy U.S. Budget Gap Widened 25% in First Two Months of Fiscal Year Higher spending, shrinking revenue tied to the pandemic and resulting economic downturn pushed deficit higher
2020-12-10 14:14:00 Life & Arts Taylor Swift’s New Album ‘Evermore’ Embraces ‘More Is More’ Release Strategy The pop star’s ninth studio album, due at midnight Friday, is her second surprise release of 2020
2020-12-10 14:06:00 Opinion The Bidens and Beijing Tax questions about Hunter’s income raise again the question of how he earned it.
2020-12-10 14:00:00 Markets MassMutual Joins the Bitcoin Club With $100 Million Purchase Investment is latest sign of mainstream acceptance for upstart digital currency
2020-12-10 13:50:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Treasury Provides More Clarity on How Banks Can Share Information on Suspicious Transactions Guidance is expected to clarify limits on information-sharing partnerships established under the 2001 Patriot Act
2020-12-10 13:36:00 CFO Journal Cigna Promotes Company Veteran to CFO Role Brian Evanko is set to become the health-care company’s finance chief on Jan. 1
2020-12-10 13:35:00 Markets U.K. Allows Banks to Resume Dividend Payments Regulator says it isn’t necessary to extend precautionary action taken as the pandemic began
2020-12-10 13:26:00 Life & Arts The Shah, the Mullahs and Iran’s Longstanding Nuclear Ambitions For five decades, under two very different regimes, Tehran has built up the infrastructure for a bomb but stopped short of making one
2020-12-10 13:16:00 Life & Arts Team USA Backs Allowing Athlete Protests at Olympics U.S. Olympic leaders say they won’t punish athletes who advocate for racial and social justice at the Games. The International Olympic Committee bans such displays.
2020-12-10 13:07:00 World Two Canadians Held in China Haven’t Been Tried, Contrary to Reports A Chinese briefing sparked news stories, but Canada says the status of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor is unchanged
2020-12-10 13:01:00 Life & Arts Online Seafood Buying Guide: Where the Chefs Shop These purveyors’ websites will deliver restaurant-quality seafood direct to the rest of us
2020-12-10 12:54:00 Markets Facebook’s Profile Will Change, Win or Lose Investors shrugging off government’s lawsuits might be missing the bigger picture
2020-12-10 12:53:00 Opinion There’s More to Politics Than Policy There’s no substitute for finding candidates who capture voters’ hearts. No, not even a 30-point plan.
2020-12-10 12:52:00 Opinion Biden Can Make American Trade Deals Great Again Unions might resist, but most Democrats now agree that economic isolation is a losing proposition.
2020-12-10 12:30:00 Markets In Europe, Monetary Policy Is All About Giving Banks Free Money ECB’s stimulus is increasingly based on ‘dual interest rates’ boosting bank profits. It may not help growth much.
2020-12-10 12:19:00 Politics Biden Chooses Ex-Obama Official to Lead Department of Veterans Affairs If confirmed, Denis McDonough would be second non-veteran to hold position
2020-12-10 12:00:00 Film Review How Covid-19 Changed Movies in 2020 As the coronavirus shuttered cinemas, first-run films moved online, and while home-viewing might not equal a packed theater, there were still plenty of standout movies to see.
2020-12-10 11:53:00 Real Estate Decor Advice on a Budget? Connect With a Design Pro on Instagram How the owners of home-decor ‘boutiques’ on social media have become personal shoppers in your pocket. Whether you seek a certain vintage lamp or a rattan end table, they’ll help you track it down.
2020-12-10 11:39:00 Markets Goodbye Covid, Hello Inflation? The timing of the vaccine rollout could make things awkward for the Federal Reserve
2020-12-10 11:36:00 World A New Migrant Caravan Forms in Honduras, in Early Test for Biden Migrants are betting on possible changes to restrictive migration policies in the U.S.
2020-12-10 11:09:00 Business The Covid-19 Vaccine: When Will It Be Available for You? First U.S. rollouts of doses could start in December, but health-care workers, older Americans likely to take priority over general population
2020-12-10 10:33:00 Life & Arts A Swiss Alps Hotel Frozen in Time Napoleon stayed here. So did Charles Dickens. But it’s the four-legged residents—generations of St. Bernards—that have made this monastery and inn one of the most intriguing destinations in the Alps. Even if you have to reach it by snowshoe.
2020-12-10 10:30:00 CMO Today Adam Gerhart Named Global CEO of Media Agency Mindshare The WPP media agency giant fired Nick Emery, Mindshare’s longtime CEO, in October
2020-12-10 10:00:00 Economy U.S. Recovery Will Cool Further Before Getting Vaccine Boost, WSJ Survey Shows Forecasters lower outlook for economic growth, jobs in first quarter of 2021 but raise it for second quarter
2020-12-10 09:26:00 Markets Missed Tesla’s 12,551% Rise? Don’t Feel So Bad. Investors can’t afford regret: Every day brings new opportunities to become very rich, most of which we are bound to miss
2020-12-10 08:55:00 Markets U.S. Stock Futures Edge Downas Economic Picture Dims Jobless claims jumped sharply last week, fresh data showed Thursday
2020-12-10 08:48:00 Economy ECB Expands Stimulus Program to Prop Up Pandemic-Hit Economy Central bank’s decision underscores the bumpy path ahead for the eurozone economy
2020-12-10 08:38:00 Business The IKEA Catalog Defined Home for Millions. Now It’s Gone. Flat-pack giant says it will discontinue publication of the book as readership declines
2020-12-10 08:34:00 Life & Arts Congress Makes It Official: Greg LeMond Is Golden A rare honor is bestowed on the American cycling legend, reasserting his legacy in the sport.
2020-12-10 08:33:00 Economy U.S. Unemployment Claims Rose to 853,000 Last Week Worker claims for jobless aid, a proxy for layoffs, remain above pre-pandemic record
2020-12-10 08:33:00 Tech The U.S. vs. Facebook: Why Is the FTC Filing an Antitrust Lawsuit Now? Facebook’s reputation has taken numerous hits, which has created a climate that makes government action more palatable
2020-12-10 08:26:00 Life & Arts Delicata Squash With Cauliflower Purée, Brown Butter and Hazelnuts Served on a bed of creamy cauliflower purée, this simple, nourishing and deeply soothing roasted squash benefits from a sprinkling of toasted hazelnuts and a drizzle of rich brown butter
2020-12-10 08:16:00 Life & Arts This Roasted Delicata Squash Recipe Is Peak Seasonal Comfort Food Served on a bed of creamy cauliflower purée, this simple, nourishing and deeply soothing roasted squash benefits from a sprinkling of toasted hazelnuts and a drizzle of rich brown butter
2020-12-10 08:00:00 Business Gilead to Pay $1.4 Billion for Hepatitis Drugmaker MYR GmbH of Germany All-cash deal will deepen Gilead’s portfolio of hepatitis treatments and marks company’s latest acquisition to increase revenue growth
2020-12-10 08:00:00 Business Coronavirus-Battered Breweries Push Congress to Extend Tax Cut With excise-tax cuts set to lapse after Dec. 31, beer makers warn of damage to business
2020-12-10 08:00:00 U.S. Jersey City Says It Is Better Prepared One Year After Mass Shooting Mayor promotes public safety with efforts to increase security and engage communities
2020-12-10 07:57:00 Markets A Chinese WeWork for Apartments Is in Distress, Leaving Renters Out in the Cold Protests by aggrieved renters have prompted local housing authorities to work with Danke Apartment to resolve its financial crisis
2020-12-10 07:41:00 World China-Europe Trade Forum Canceled After China Sought to Bar Critics European organizers rejected China’s demands to exclude certain participants from annual dialogue between CEOs, officials and academics
2020-12-10 07:00:00 Tech Airbnb’s Road to IPO: Mounting Valuation and Costs How the home-sharing company reinvented itself during the pandemic and before its market debut
2020-12-10 07:00:00 Business CEOs Pledge One Million Jobs for Black Americans Leaders of Merck, IBM, others have raised $100 million for OneTen, a startup that will focus on training Black candidates for corporate roles
2020-12-10 07:00:00 World Russia Struggles to Make Promised Doses of Its Sputnik V Vaccine Country turns to private drug companies as equipment problems and technical challenges hit year-end manufacturing targets
2020-12-10 06:54:00 Tech Google, Amazon Fined $163 Million as France Takes Hard Line on Privacy Regulator sidesteps EU’s GDPR privacy law to issue its own fines, a record for a privacy case in France
2020-12-10 06:48:00 World China Responds in Latest Sanctions Tit-for-Tat With U.S. Over Hong Kong China is revoking visa exemptions for U.S. diplomatic passport holders in Hong Kong and Macau
2020-12-10 06:40:00 World Governments Will Want to Track Who Has Had a Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout of new shots highlights gaps in countries’ monitoring of who gets inoculated
2020-12-10 06:00:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Consumer Stock Gains, Luxury Brands in Asia, Golf Home Boon Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2020-12-10 06:00:00 Markets Health Insurers Can Ride Out the Coronavirus, Amazon Storms Insurers such as UnitedHealth have successfully navigated myriad challenges, and investors are betting that will continue
2020-12-10 05:49:00 Markets Metals Markets Steel for Price Rises as Australia Pushes to Save Cultural Sites Delays to mining projects in Western Australia could push commodity prices higher and exacerbate shortages
2020-12-10 05:30:00 Tech U.S. Air Force Gives Lift to Flying Taxis Military endorsement could bring novel electric vehicles closer to reality
2020-12-10 05:30:00 Markets Mortgage Originations Are on Pace for Best Year Ever Record-low interest rates and strong demand for homes boost lenders during Covid-19 pandemic
2020-12-10 05:30:00 Tech Zuckerberg’s Deal Making for Facebook Is Central to Antitrust Cases Lawsuits filed by FTC and 46 states allege company engaged in campaign to acquire or stymie nascent tech companies that could become rivals
2020-12-10 05:30:00 Business FDA Advisory Panel Takes Up Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine A favorable recommendation is expected, paving the way for FDA to grant emergency authorization
2020-12-10 05:10:00 Markets Climbing Asian Currency Reserves Will Revive Manipulation Debates Upward pressure on the Chinese, Taiwanese and South Korean currencies leaves them at greater risk of becoming the targets of the incoming Biden administration
2020-12-10 04:41:00 Markets Chinese Chip Maker in Default on $2.5 Billion of Dollar Bonds Default by Tsinghua Unigroup unit triggers series of cross-defaults; nearly $2.5 billion of international bonds affected
2020-12-09 21:08:00 Business GE to Pay $200 Million to Settle SEC Accounting Probe Securities and Exchange Commission says company failed to disclose problems in its power and insurance units
2020-12-09 20:57:00 Business SpaceX’s Starship Prototype Explodes Upon Landing After Test Flight CEO Elon Musk says test flight, without crew, validated rocketship’s launch, ascent and some key airborne maneuvers
2020-12-09 20:36:00 CIO Journal Company Trading Under Ticker ‘AI’ Rides Tech-Friendly Stock Market in IPO C3.ai, which sells AI software, closes at more than double IPO price on first day of trading, raises $651 million
2020-12-09 20:00:00 Arts What Netflix’s Lists of Top Foreign Movies and TV Series Say About American Taste Netflix reveals the top ten lists for non-English films and series in the U.S.; comedies and romances are out, action is very much in
2020-12-09 18:36:00 Tech Facebook Antitrust Lawsuits: What Do the Cases Mean for the Social-Media Giant? U.S. antitrust authorities have been examining for more than a year whether Facebook used its market position to stifle competition
2020-12-09 18:34:00 Opinion The Navy Stops Taking On Water Decades of cuts left the U.S. fleet at almost 1916 levels, but President Trump is changing all that.
2020-12-09 18:33:00 Opinion Schumer’s Unemployment Flip-Flop His current Covid relief demands contradict his own bill from July.
2020-12-09 18:29:00 Opinion Nasdaq and ‘Groupthink’ The stock exchange now wants to be your diversity consultant.
2020-12-09 18:28:00 Opinion California’s $2 Billion Benefit Fraud Sacramento can’t pass out jobless checks without being scammed.
2020-12-09 18:26:00 Books The 10 Best Books of 2020 The editors of the Journal’s books pages pick the year’s most distinguished fiction and nonfiction.
2020-12-09 18:23:00 World U.S. Says Canada Shields Its Dairy Market in Violation of Trade Pact Complaint is the first enforcement action pursued under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement
2020-12-09 18:19:00 Opinion George W. Bush and the Covid Vaccine Credit 2020’s speedy development in part to a series of laws he signed in 2002-06.
2020-12-09 18:18:00 Opinion Trump Takes a Parting Swipe at the Executive Branch Stripping OMB staffers of civil-service protection will make it harder for the president to do his job.
2020-12-09 18:17:00 Opinion Tech Giants and Social Media Need Smart Regulation The digital economy should have a code of conduct that enhances competition and encourages innovation.
2020-12-09 18:16:00 Opinion Airbnb, Once a Nuisance, Is Now an Attractive Investment The short-term rental platform made my neighborhood loud. I’m hoping it’ll make my finances flush.
2020-12-09 18:15:00 Opinion The New Covid Resistance A population of deplorables is rising among people who aren’t in MAGA hats.
2020-12-09 18:13:00 Books ‘Breaking Bread With the Dead’ Review: Old Books in a New Class A professor argues that we should engage with the classics, not only in spite of, but even because of, our moral differences with them.
2020-12-09 18:05:00 World Significant Obstacles Remain in Brexit Negotiations Decision on future of talks should be taken by Sunday, the official said
2020-12-09 18:04:00 Politics Biden to Name Katherine Tai U.S. Trade Representative Tai was top U.S. Trade Representative lawyer on China issues in Obama administration
2020-12-09 17:42:00 Tech Apple and Google to Stop X-Mode From Collecting Location Data From Users’ Phones After the data broker came under scrutiny for national-security work, tech giants tell app developers to remove trackers or lose access to their operating systems
2020-12-09 17:02:00 Politics Pompeo Urges U.S. Campuses to Track China-Related Activities In speech at Georgia Tech, he suggests institutions monitor students, disclose funding from foreign sources
2020-12-09 17:02:00 Opinion Try to Learn From the Past, Don’t Rewrite It Don’t abuse the inheritance of your freedom to bully others but instead use your freedom to reflect upon yourselves.
2020-12-09 17:01:00 Opinion Innovation Unlikely From Biden Economists Only two of the five “economists” mentioned actually are economists.
2020-12-09 17:00:00 Opinion Roundtable’s Policy Is Perfectly Reasonable As the former president of a small, highly successful technology company, I don’t understand the criticism, even animosity, of some toward the Business Roundtable’s policy recommendations.
2020-12-09 16:55:00 Politics Hunter Biden Says His Taxes Are Under Investigation President-elect’s son believes review ‘will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately’
2020-12-09 16:55:00 Art Review ‘Hands & Earth: Perspectives on Japanese Contemporary Ceramics’ Review: A Kiln-Fired Culture An exhibition at the Katonah Museum of Art spotlights ceramic works of the past century that speak to Japan’s traditional style and technique.
2020-12-09 16:53:00 Art Review Rothko in a New Light A $30 million restoration of Houston’s Rothko Chapel features updated acoustics and lighting that showcase as never before the 14 canvases that line its walls.
2020-12-09 16:51:00 Life & Arts I’m a Space Alien in the ‘Galactic Federation.’ It’s Really Boring. Despite an Earthbound official’s wild interview about galaxy visitors, reality may be more mundane
2020-12-09 16:47:00 Business Starbucks Names Mellody Hobson Board Chairwoman Ariel Investments co-CEO would be among most prominent Black leaders of U.S. corporate boards
2020-12-09 16:46:00 Tech How Facebook Spread Out With Deals for WhatsApp, Instagram and Others U.S. authorities are scrutinizing the social-media giant’s acquisition history and how it selected its targets
2020-12-09 16:42:00 Markets Supreme Court Is Skeptical of Fannie, Freddie Investors’ Suit Case about government sequestering of the mortgage firms’ profits has broad implications for housing finance, powers of agencies
2020-12-09 16:41:00 Tech Facebook Hit With Antitrust Lawsuits by FTC, State Attorneys General Federal case seeks to unwind social-media giant’s Instagram, WhatsApp acquisitions; other claims target company’s tactics against competitors
2020-12-09 16:40:00 Business DoorDash’s IPO Delivers as Shares Surge in Market Debut Stock jumps 86% on first day of trading, valuing the food deliverer at more than $70 billion, higher than many of its restaurant clients
2020-12-09 16:32:00 Markets SEC Approves Plan to Bring More Detailed Stock-Market Data to Public Under the plan, data showing supply and demand for stocks will be added to public feeds
2020-12-09 16:28:00 Logistics Report Natural Gas, Propane Are Early Winners in Quest for Clean Ship Fuels Roughly a quarter of all shipping capacity on order is being built to burn new fuels as operators seek a future with reduced emissions
2020-12-09 16:26:00 Pro Bankruptcy Democrats Warren and Nadler Float Consumer Bankruptcy Overhaul The reform package would roll back fees that can make bankruptcy expensive for the poorest consumers
2020-12-09 16:19:00 Markets Campbell Needs to Strike While Soup Is Still Hot Food company benefits from an embrace of its namesake condensed soups by millennials who previously shunned them
2020-12-09 16:17:00 Opinion The Shutdown Boom When government reorders society in a panic, not everybody loses.
2020-12-09 16:16:00 Business Elon Musk Decries ‘M.B.A.-ization’ of America Tesla’s chief executive blames business schools for lack of innovation; deans are firing back
2020-12-09 16:15:00 World Canada Authorizes Covid-19 Vaccine From Pfizer and BioNTech Ottawa is poised to begin its immunization rollout as early as next week
2020-12-09 16:10:00 Politics Following Trump, Biden Seeks Waiver for Defense-Chief Pick President-elect, Lloyd Austin stress commitment to civilian-run military
2020-12-09 15:50:00 Markets IAC’s Relationship With Google Is Complicated Investors seem unduly relaxed about a lovers’ spat between IAC and Alphabet’s Google
2020-12-09 15:50:00 World France’s Macron Proposes Bill Outlawing ‘Islamist Separatism’ Move, coming after several terrorist attacks, would ban a broad array of activity, from abuse of home schooling to online hate speech
2020-12-09 15:47:00 Politics Google to Lift Political Ad Ban on Thursday The blackout was put in place due to concerns over misinformation surrounding the 2020 election
2020-12-09 15:26:00 Life & Arts Holiday Wine Shopping: How to Win the ‘Costco Treasure Hunt’ On a hunch that this year might be a uniquely fruitful one for finding deals, our wine columnist stalked the aisles at Costco. Here, the best values she flushed out.
2020-12-09 15:20:00 CFO Journal Coty Changes Finance Chief as Turnaround Continues The beauty and skin-care company promoted Laurent Mercier, currently deputy chief financial officer, to the role of CFO
2020-12-09 15:19:00 Economy ‘Lockdown Lite’ Spares Economies but Doesn’t End Pandemic France shows more-targeted responses can work, but in U.S. they haven’t stopped risky behavior
2020-12-09 14:58:00 Business Airlines Do Away With International Change Fees Delta and United join American in scrapping the charges to encourage global travel during pandemic
2020-12-09 14:51:00 Markets Gold’s Volatile Run Continues in December Precious metal still up more than 20% for the year
2020-12-09 14:19:00 CFO Journal P&G Promotes Baby-Care Executive Andre Schulten to CFO He will succeed Jon Moeller, who has served as finance chief since 2009
2020-12-09 14:19:00 IPOs Airbnb Expected to Price IPO Above $56 to $60 a Share Range Expected price would give home-sharing company a valuation above $42 billion
2020-12-09 14:17:00 World U.S. Sanctions Convict Who Invested in China-Backed Projects for Corruption Penalties levied on a Chinese man known as ‘Broken Tooth’ come amid Trump administration pressure campaign against China
2020-12-09 13:39:00 Business Covid-19 Vaccines Pose Potential Side Effects, Doctors Say U.K. authorities warn people with severe allergies against receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech shots, after two Britons experience allergic reactions
2020-12-09 13:22:00 Life & Arts 2021 Genesis G80: The Finest Car $70,000 Can Buy Think that Hyundai’s new luxury offshoot can’t compete with the likes of heritage brands Mercedes, Audi and BMW? Think again, says Dan Neil.
2020-12-09 12:53:00 Politics Bipartisan Group Fleshes Out Details of Covid-19 Aid Proposal State and local aid, liability shield at center of coronavirus-relief debate
2020-12-09 12:39:00 Tech The Easy Way to Get a Christmas Tree From the Country—Even During Covid Has the pandemic kept you from scouting the perfect pick at a Christmas-tree farm? Here, how to get a fresh-cut fir without leaving home.
2020-12-09 12:32:00 World Chinese Consumer Prices Show First Annual Decline Since 2009 Consumer-price index in November was down 0.5% from a year earlier, led by volatile food prices
2020-12-09 12:20:00 Opinion China Wants to Be the World’s Banker The U.S. is in danger of losing its dominant leadership position in global financial services.
2020-12-09 12:19:00 Opinion Italians Will Be Frozen in Place This Christmas Think U.S. lockdowns are bad? Imagine being confined to your town.
2020-12-09 12:06:00 Television From ‘Your Honor’ to ‘Tehran’: Why Israeli Dramas Translate So Well to American TV The executive producer of a new Showtime series and another on Apple TV+ talks about the inherent jeopardy in Israeli series
2020-12-09 11:39:00 Markets GameStop’s High Score Got Run up Too Soon Limited supply of new Xbox and PlayStation consoles will slow retailer’s reboot
2020-12-09 11:36:00 Deals AT&T Fields DirecTV Offers Above $15 Billion Including Debt Apollo Global Management, long seen as the front-runner, bid below $15 billion; Michael Klein’s blank-check company among the bidders
2020-12-09 11:25:00 Life & Arts Why Travel Writer and Trans Pioneer Jan Morris Is My Itinerant Literary Hero A longtime devotee of the celebrated globe-trotter on her remarkable life and career
2020-12-09 11:21:00 World Covid-19 Surge Hits South Korea and Japan, After They Had Contained Virus Uptick in outbreaks among Asia’s coronavirus success stories comes after life had been restored to pre-pandemic levels
2020-12-09 11:01:00 Life & Arts The National Hockey League Grinds Toward Another Pandemic Season The NHL hopes to resume in mid-January. Players and owners must first agree on how to share the painful financial consequences.
2020-12-09 10:32:00 Business Campbell’s Sales Growth Cools Down Soup giant is latest food company to report slower growth than at start of the pandemic
2020-12-09 10:21:00 Opinion Lagarde Does Whatever She Can And who can fault her when no other EU leader has a better idea?
2020-12-09 10:04:00 Real Estate Facebook Pledges $150 Million to Build Homes for Silicon Valley’s Poorest Investment represents latest details from social-media company, which last year committed $1 billion to ease affordable-housing shortage in Bay Area
2020-12-09 09:31:00 World Kim Yo Jong: What We Know About Kim Jong Un’s Sister and Her Role in North Korea Star power of dictator’s sister has risen after appearances at 2018 Winter Olympics, two nuclear summits and as a signatory in state media
2020-12-09 08:56:00 Life & Arts The Rise of the Giant, Empty International Flight Why airlines are actually scheduling more long-haul trips in December despite low passenger demand and Covid-driven entry restrictions
2020-12-09 08:52:00 World Two in U.K. Suffer Allergic Reaction to Pfizer’s Covid-19 Vaccine Regulator says people with history of significant allergic reactions shouldn’t get the shot
2020-12-09 08:50:00 World Chinese Covid-19 Vaccine Is 86% Effective, U.A.E. Trial Shows Health experts caution that more information on the trials is needed
2020-12-09 08:17:00 Markets U.S. Stock Futures Rise on Stimulus Bets S&P 500 is on track to climb to new record, extending a rally that has seen it advance almost 15% this year
2020-12-09 08:15:00 Markets DoorDash, GameStop, Pfizer: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today U.S. stock futures rose on hopes for new fiscal stimulus
2020-12-09 08:12:00 Markets Sinochem, ChemChina Consider Merger Plan That Won't Raise U.S. National Security Concerns Combination would create world’s largest chemicals conglomerate
2020-12-09 08:02:00 Politics Trump’s Challenges to Election Face End of the Legal Road Courts across the U.S. have rejected the president and his supporters, citing lack of proof and other shortcomings
2020-12-09 07:56:00 Life & Arts James Harden’s Stepback From the Rockets The NBA star wants out with two years left on his contract. It’s the latest saga pitting a disgruntled player against his own team.
2020-12-09 07:52:00 Markets Commodities-Trading Giant Trafigura Wins Big From Oil-Market Mayhem When oil prices went negative during coronavirus lockdowns, the trading giant had its busiest month ever
2020-12-09 07:35:00 World Kim Jong Un’s Sister Blasts Top South Korean Diplomat Over Pandemic Remark Kim Yo Jong threatened Seoul’s foreign minister after she questioned the North’s account of Covid-19 cases
2020-12-09 07:05:00 Markets China Hails Victory in Crackdown on Peer-to-Peer Lending Central-bank official says, ‘by mid-November the actual operating P2P lenders had all been zeroed out’
2020-12-09 07:00:00 Politics Head of FDA Advisory Panel Predicts Approval for Pfizer’s Covid-19 Vaccine Committee expected to back agency’s plan to grant emergency authorization of vaccine; FDA decision expected within days
2020-12-09 06:23:00 Business Australian Inquiry Into Rio Tinto Caves Blast Urges Restitution, Transparency World’s second-largest miner should negotiate restitution with aboriginal group after destroying ancient rock shelters, lawmakers say
2020-12-09 06:02:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Loving Japan Again, Energy Startup Disrupted, Joyful Return to the Office Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2020-12-09 05:42:00 World Japan Plans Its Own Missiles Able to Hit North Korea Move would give Japan pre-emptive strike capability, but Tokyo avoids explicit threats against Pyongyang
2020-12-09 05:30:00 Economy U.S. Job Openings Slipped in Early December The number of available jobs in the U.S. fell, the latest sign of economic pullback
2020-12-09 05:30:00 How Big Data Turned Into Big Business for Cyber and Privacy Lawyers Legal teams staff up amid new privacy regulations and surging cyberattacks
2020-12-09 05:30:00 Economy Fedspeak Cheat Sheet: What Fed Officials Said Before Their December Meeting
2020-12-09 05:30:00 Business As Covid-19 Vaccines Roll Out, States to Determine Who Gets Shots First Health-care workers, long-term-care residents, teachers and minority groups are among those seeking priority
2020-12-09 05:30:00 Tech Behind the Rocky Release of ‘Cyberpunk 2077,’ a New Videogame Featuring Keanu Reeves Game launches this week after being delayed three times—in part because of challenges caused by employees working from home
2020-12-09 05:30:00 Markets Covid-19 Pandemic Puts Squeeze on Pension Plans Pension managers face hard choice of taking on increased risk or seeking more money from employers and workers
2020-12-09 05:29:00 Markets Euro Rally Weighs on Inflation, Sapping Appetite for Stocks Currency is near its highest level against the dollar in more than two years; investors worry there is little that the ECB can do to rein it in
2020-12-09 05:01:00 Markets Luxury Brands Follow Chinese Shoppers Back Home For the first time, designer brands opened more shops in markets like China and Japan than in Europe
2020-12-09 04:50:00 Markets Aging China Must Work Longer and Invest Smarter An aging population may finally force the government to face long-needed reform challenges head on
2020-12-09 04:04:00 World Coronavirus Sneaked Past Safeguards to Halt Singapore ‘Cruise to Nowhere’ 83-year-old tests positive for Covid-19 on ship operated by Royal Caribbean after everyone had to test negative before boarding
2020-12-08 19:07:00 Opinion Twitter Has a Competitor Free speech platform Parler performs well enough to earn hostile media coverage.
2020-12-08 18:34:00 Pro Bankruptcy Bankrupt Ann Taylor Owner Gets Green Light for Sale Despite DOJ Objection Ascena Retail Group hopes to wrap up the $540 million sale out of bankruptcy to Sycamore Partners before the holidays
2020-12-08 18:31:00 Opinion Seeing Higher Education With New Eyes How should universities change, given the experience of the pandemic?
2020-12-08 18:30:00 Opinion The Fannie and Freddie Conundrum A regulator’s plan to recapitalize the firms is the least worst option.
2020-12-08 18:28:00 Opinion Trump’s Defense Bill Kamikaze Run His veto threat could end up hurting his own policy priorities.
2020-12-08 18:28:00 Opinion Another General at Defense? Lloyd Austin’s record and views are more important than his race.
2020-12-08 18:26:00 Opinion Chuck Yeager The combat pilot who broke the sound barrier with two broken ribs.
2020-12-08 18:22:00 Opinion The Best Herd Immunity Money Can Buy Paying people to get the Covid-19 shot may be the way to overcome skepticism about the vaccine.
2020-12-08 18:21:00 Opinion A Nasdaq Chief’s Diversity Stunt Americans tire of seeing institutions misused for personal aggrandizement.
2020-12-08 18:20:00 Opinion The Economy Needs a Little More PPP The next version of the Paycheck Protection Program should focus on helping smaller firms.
2020-12-08 18:19:00 Opinion Paralyzed by Polio in 1951, My Mother Didn’t Give Up Doctors, nurses, therapists and scientists worked to find treatments while waiting for a vaccine.
2020-12-08 18:19:00 Opinion No More Bishop Nice Guy Religious leaders have been too deferential to unreasonable Covid restrictions.
2020-12-08 18:18:00 Books ‘Friends and Enemies’ Review: Making Her Own Black List A gimlet-eyed chronicle of a glamorous and tumultuous life in journalism that spares no one, least of all the author herself.
2020-12-08 18:17:00 Politics Biden Expected to Nominate Marcia Fudge to Lead HUD The Ohio lawmaker, a former chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, had been promoted by fellow Black members of Congress
2020-12-08 18:12:00 Politics Supreme Court Denies Long-Shot Republican Bid to Block Pennsylvania Election Results for Joe Biden No justice notes a dissent to order
2020-12-08 17:50:00 Politics Biden’s Pick for Defense Chief Rekindles a Civilian-Military Debate Gen. Austin will need a congressional waiver, as did Gen. Mattis, posing a test for Democrats
2020-12-08 17:27:00 Pro PE Exits Former Allergan CEO’s SPAC Agrees to $1.1 Billion Merger With Beauty Products Company HydraFacial’s private-equity owners, Linden Capital Partners and DW Healthcare Partners, will retain a combined 25% stake in the business following the merger
2020-12-08 16:57:00 World U.S. Steps Up Pressure on China Over North Korean Coal Exports Sanctions are the latest action against Beijing for allegedly helping Pyongyang evade U.N. sanctions
2020-12-08 16:47:00 Opinion Nasdaq Defends Its New Diversity Mandate Our disclosure-based proposal provides investors with greater transparency about board composition.
2020-12-08 16:46:00 Opinion The Human Cost of Massive Plant Closures So much in the stories of these GM workers who left their families behind when the factory in Lordstown, Ohio, shut down, my dad experienced as well.
2020-12-08 16:45:00 Opinion Louis Pasteur Had Good Advice About Luck and Life We should appreciate our good luck when good things come our way.
2020-12-08 16:45:00 Opinion The First Amendment, Churches and Public Health We wear masks, sanitize our hands, sit two pews apart in assigned seats. We don’t sing at all. We don’t “inhale and exhale forcefully” while praying. Oh, and we register for contact tracing every time we attend Mass.
2020-12-08 16:42:00 Politics Trump’s Threat to Veto Defense Bill Divides Republican Lawmakers President’s objections to provisions of annual bill draw some support, clouding prospects of a veto-proof majority
2020-12-08 16:40:00 Politics Pompeo Warns Businesses Over Hong Kong as U.S. Tensions With Beijing Rise Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam says now is ‘one of best times to come’ to global trade center
2020-12-08 16:39:00 Tech Apple to Sell AirPods Max Over-the-Ear Headphones for $549 Expansion of product lineup is direct strike against companies like Bose and Sony
2020-12-08 16:38:00 Arts & Entertainment Glitch in the Museum Matrix Large-scale virtual presentations of famous works of art obscure rather than illuminate their sources.
2020-12-08 16:36:00 Politics Judge Dismisses Flynn Case but Denounces Government’s Role Former national security adviser had been pardoned by Trump after pleading guilty to lying to FBI
2020-12-08 16:27:00 Politics Biden Introduces His Coronavirus Team as Lawmakers Scrutinize Picks The president-elect also is scheduled to meet with civil rights organizations that have pressed for a diverse cabinet
2020-12-08 16:27:00 U.S. Army Disciplines 14 at Fort Hood After Investigation Prompted by Murder of Vanessa Guillen Report found that base officials didn’t properly handle sexual assault and harrassment claims
2020-12-08 16:19:00 Politics ‘Safe Harbor’ Day Marks a Further Step Toward Sealing Joe Biden’s Victory in Electoral College States are supposed to resolve election disputes by Tuesday, and if they do, Congress should accept the results under federal law
2020-12-08 16:16:00 Television Review ‘The Surgeon’s Cut’ Review: Where ‘Miracle’ Is the Operative Word A Netflix series offers gripping documentary portraits of four remarkable doctors.
2020-12-08 16:14:00 Television Review ‘Wolfwalkers’ Review: An Irish Enchantment Likely to captivate viewers young and old, an animated film roots its fantastical story in the island’s tortured history.
2020-12-08 16:05:00 Markets U.S. Treasury Yields Slip on Brexit Struggles, Stimulus Worries Yield on benchmark 10-year Treasury declines for second straight session
2020-12-08 16:03:00 Tech U.S. Cyber Firm FireEye Says It Was Breached by Nation-State Hackers The cybersecurity company said the attack compromised its software tools used to test the defenses of its thousands of customers
2020-12-08 15:58:00 Markets Apple Replays the Wrong Audio Track New AirPods Max headphones may follow HomePod rather than AirPods trajectory
2020-12-08 15:57:00 Business What to Do—and Not Do—in the Aftermath of a Cybersecurity Attack Among the most-important: Don’t create fear and uncertainty by firing the people who may know best how to recover from the attack
2020-12-08 15:53:00 Politics McConnell Calls for Covid-19 Aid Bill Excluding Liability Shield, State Aid Issues have bedeviled efforts to reach a bipartisan deal before the end of the year
2020-12-08 15:51:00 Business Elon Musk Moves to Texas, Takes Jab at Silicon Valley Tesla chief is among highest-profile tech executives to leave Silicon Valley during pandemic, criticizing California’s treatment of innovators
2020-12-08 15:36:00 World China Aims to Outpace U.S. Militarily, American Commander Says Beijing wants to match U.S. capabilities by 2035 and surpass them by midcentury, Gen. Milley says, echoing concerns in Pentagon report
2020-12-08 15:26:00 Life & Arts Can We Make Our Sex Lives Fun Again? Few people report feeling sexy in the pandemic. But there are ways to reignite the spark.
2020-12-08 15:20:00 Business Boeing Makes First 737 MAX Delivery Since Lifting of FAA Ban United Airlines receives the first MAX planes after regulators grounded the jet in March 2019 following two crashes
2020-12-08 15:16:00 Life & Arts Meet the Frankenshirt. It’s Three (or Seven) Shirts in One Labels like Burberry and Marni are selling curious men’s shirts cobbled together from motley fabrics and patterns. Enticingly trendy or just terrifying?
2020-12-08 15:09:00 Life & Arts Michigan-Ohio State Game Is Off, Complicating Playoff Picture The storied football rivalry between the Wolverines and Buckeyes won’t be played for the first time since 1917 thanks to a Covid outbreak on Michigan’s team.
2020-12-08 15:07:00 Politics GOP Advances Trump’s FCC Pick, Setting Up a Potential Agency Deadlock Nomination of Republican lawyer Nathan Simington to the telecommunications regulator clears a key procedural hurdle in the Senate
2020-12-08 14:41:00 Business Some McDonald’s Franchisees Plan Higher Happy Meal Prices The burger giant is raising fees and ending a rebate on the children’s menu for U.S. restaurant operators
2020-12-08 14:06:00 Economy World Bank Chief Sees Slow Global Recovery From Covid-19 Slump David Malpass says it will take two to three years to return to pre-pandemic levels of output as many developing nations struggle
2020-12-08 13:26:00 World Brexit Deal in the Balance as Boris Johnson Prepares for Crunch Talks British prime minister will meet with the European Commission president for face-to-face talks on Wednesday
2020-12-08 13:07:00 Markets Portugal Joins Negative-Rates Club With Benchmark Bond The country’s 10-year government bond yield slips below zero, joining certain other European countries
2020-12-08 13:02:00 Markets Tesla Is Watching Its Stock Price Too Elon Musk is smart to turn paper gains into cash, and speculators would be wise to follow his example
2020-12-08 13:02:00 Business AT&T Boss Defends Plans to Stream Warner Bros. Films Upon Release CEO John Stankey expects coronavirus pandemic to scare many people away from theaters
2020-12-08 12:57:00 World Emirati Investor Acquires Stake in Israeli Soccer Team Known for Anti-Arab Fans Sheikh Hamad says partnership aims ‘to set an example…that Jews and Muslims can work together’
2020-12-08 12:44:00 Opinion Profit Keeps Corporate Leaders Honest ‘Stakeholder capitalism’ allows the Davos crowd to obfuscate what counts as success for a business.
2020-12-08 12:43:00 Opinion States and Cities Deserve Taxpayer Support Covid relief is no ‘blue-state bailout.’ The virus doesn’t respect political boundaries.
2020-12-08 12:27:00 World Chuck Yeager, Pioneer of Supersonic Flight, Dies at Age 97 He personified era of pilots that moved the U.S. into the jet age
2020-12-08 12:15:00 U.S. In Portland, Tensions Move From Streets to Court Federal prosecutors, defense lawyers spar over charges against 90 individuals in Oregon
2020-12-08 11:44:00 CMO Today Michael Bassik Leaves MDC to Resurrect Brooklyn Magazine and Sell Sprinkles CEO of MDC Partners media agency Assembly is leaving to start ventures including a flavored sprinkles company and a health-data business
2020-12-08 11:37:00 World China Pushes Alternative Theories About Origin of Covid-19 As WHO prepares probe into start of pandemic, scientists chafe at politicization of research
2020-12-08 11:31:00 Markets Stitch Fix Shoppers See the Light Latest results from newfangled clothes seller bode well for its future
2020-12-08 11:30:00 Markets Betterment CEO Jon Stein Steps Down Investment-advice firm chief to be succeeded by former ViacomCBS executive Sarah Kirshbaum Levy
2020-12-08 11:29:00 Markets BlueCrest Capital Management to Pay $170 Million to Settle SEC Claims Firm misled clients about an internal fund that invested its traders’ own money, SEC says
2020-12-08 11:16:00 Markets Tesla Plans Stock Sale, Closing Year of Soaring Gains The electric-vehicle company will sell up to $5 billion of new shares over time at market prices
2020-12-08 10:46:00 Markets DoorDash Poised to Tap Torrid IPO Market Shares are expected to price at the high end of or above their already-increased target range Tuesday in a banner week for IPOs
2020-12-08 10:11:00 Markets Uber Pays Up to Take Back Seat on Driverless Cars The ride-hailing giant won’t have to consolidate the costs of automating driving, but will remain invested
2020-12-08 10:06:00 Business Howard Stern Extends SiriusXM Contract for 5 Years Stern will continue to produce and host his show exclusively for the satellite-radio company
2020-12-08 09:50:00 Politics Will There Be a Second Stimulus Check Before the End of the Year? Direct payments to households aren’t included in the current $900 billion framework but could resurface
2020-12-08 09:45:00 Business How DoorDash Pulled Ahead in the Food-Delivery War Startup’s IPO comes after a year of aggressive growth. Is it built to last?
2020-12-08 09:38:00 World China Sticks With Tough Line on Hong Kong After U.S. Bolsters Sanctions Political observers say sanctions unlikely to force Beijing into easing crackdown on opponents
2020-12-08 09:37:00 Pro Bankruptcy Newsletter Pro Bankruptcy Briefing: Superior Energy Files for Bankruptcy; J.C. Penney Completes Sale, Lines Up Loans From Wells Fargo; SBA Opposes PPP Recipient’s Plan
2020-12-08 09:00:00 Business Long-Awaited 5G Auction Expected to Stretch Carriers’ Balance Sheets Wireless companies including Verizon expected to splurge on U.S. auction of C-band spectrum
2020-12-08 09:00:00 Business Imagine a Nutrition Label—for Cybersecurity As the Internet-of-Things proliferates, consumers want to know how their data will be used by the makers of devices—before they buy them
2020-12-08 08:58:00 Business FDA Says Pfizer/BioNTech Vaccine Meets Success Criteria Pfizer could ship vaccines as soon as clearance granted, which could come as early as this weekend
2020-12-08 08:55:00 Arts A Nonprofit That Uncovered Hundreds of Lost Works by Female Artists to Close Advancing Women Artists was founded by the late pioneering philanthropist known as ‘Indiana Jane’; the closure comes as a surprise
2020-12-08 08:35:00 WSJ. Magazine Powered by Apple Watch, Fitness+ Builds a Virtual Home Gym Fitness+, Apple’s new subscription service for on-demand workouts, arrives next week with 21 trainers across 10 disciplines.
2020-12-08 08:34:00 Business U.S. Steel to Buy Remaining Stake in New, Low-Cost Steel Mill Rising steel prices helped company to raise cash to complete purchase of Big River Steel sooner than expected
2020-12-08 08:29:00 Markets Stitch Fix, Tesla, Coupa Software: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today U.S. legislators are still hashing out the details of a coronavirus-relief package
2020-12-08 08:10:00 Markets U.S. Stock Futures Slip Amid Gridlock on Stimulus, Brexit S&P 500 is poised for second day of losses on worries about rising Covid-19 cases
2020-12-08 08:00:00 Tech How to Motivate Teens Struggling With Remote School Getting boys to engage in virtual instruction doesn’t have to be a battle. Experts offer tips on how to make virtual school more bearable.
2020-12-08 08:00:00 Real Estate U.S. Real-Estate Investors Seek Hollywood Dreams in London As Covid-19 boosts demand for content, L.A. firm bets on Eastbrook Studios and Pinewood plans to expand
2020-12-08 08:00:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Surge in Physical Threats During Pandemic Complicates Employee Security Efforts Security consultants say companies are looking for ways to manage increased threats targeting a workforce that is less secure and more spread out
2020-12-08 08:00:00 Real Estate U.S. Aims to Check Real-Estate Data Giant CoStar’s Expansion in Multifamily FTC last week authorized a federal lawsuit against CoStar’s plan to acquire RentPath Holdings
2020-12-08 07:58:00 World U.K. Begins Rollout of Pfizer’s Covid-19 Vaccine in a First for the West Less than a week after the shot was authorized, the first Britons receive doses
2020-12-08 07:54:00 U.S. Deborah Birx and Anthony Fauci to Discuss Coronavirus Response Top U.S. health officials to be interviewed at WSJ CEO Council event
2020-12-08 07:46:00 World Mount Everest Just Got Taller China and Nepal jointly announced a new official height of 29,032 feet for the world’s tallest mountain
2020-12-08 07:33:00 World Mexican Cartels Are Now Cooking Chinese Chemicals in Dutch Meth Labs Narco gangs piggyback legal business networks to tap rich markets world-wide
2020-12-08 07:09:00 Markets China’s Riskier Companies Pay Up to Raise Bond Financing Firms rated below triple-A paid their highest average yield since early 2019
2020-12-08 07:00:00 U.S. Conservative Lawsuits Fuel Distrust of Election Results Legal challenges have been unsuccessful but could lay groundwork for movement to change voting laws
2020-12-08 07:00:00 Tech Airbnb’s IPO: Date, Valuation and Everything Else You Need to Know The home-sharing giant plans to make its market debut this week. Here’s what to expect between now and then.
2020-12-08 06:45:00 World China Car Sales Rise Again, Cementing Pandemic Recovery To boost sales, government has been easing purchasing quotas and giving subsidies to car buyers
2020-12-08 06:02:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Stock Split Pay Off, Stock Buyback Heat, Energy Pipeline Upside Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2020-12-08 06:00:00 CMO Today Nielsen Sets Timeline for Big Change in TV Ratings The country’s leading TV-ratings firm plans a metric that measures content and ads across TV and digital media
2020-12-08 05:58:00 World Covid-19 Vaccine Passports Could Help Life Return to Normal, but Experts Urge Caution Requirement to prove immunity raises practical and ethical issues: Should vaccinated people have greater freedom?
2020-12-08 05:30:00 Markets Greek Banks Turn Corner With Bad-Loan Sales State-backed securitization program helps usher in global investors even during pandemic
2020-12-08 05:30:00 Politics Environmental Groups Seek Access to Records on Oil-Drilling Safety-Rule Changes Sierra Club and others hope to overturn Trump administration’s partial rollback of the ‘well-control rule’ passed after 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster
2020-12-08 03:52:00 Markets JD Health Makes Strong Debut in Hong Kong The city’s stock market closes out its best year for listing activity in a decade, thanks in big part to Chinese technology companies
2020-12-08 03:51:00 Markets Chinese Household Debt Surges Through the Pandemic The continued rise of real-estate investment left China with the largest increase in global household debt in the first half of the year, which will drag on its economic potential in years to come
2020-12-08 01:57:00 Markets Goldman Sachs to Acquire 100% of China Securities Joint Venture Firm is first global bank to seek full ownership of its securities business in the country
2020-12-07 22:53:00 Politics Two Republicans Provide Different Views on Trump’s Appeal Sen. Tom Cotton and William Kristol spoke at The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council Summit
2020-12-07 22:46:00 Politics Biden National Security Adviser Sees U.S. Rejoining Iran Nuclear Deal Jake Sullivan discussed national-security and foreign-policy issues at The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council Summit
2020-12-07 22:41:00 World Warning Signs Were Missed Ahead of Christchurch Mosque Shootings, Inquiry Finds Report highlights police failings in granting the gunman a firearms license, concludes intelligence agencies focused too heavily on Islamic extremists
2020-12-07 22:28:00 CIO Journal Covid-19 Economy Claimed 128,000 IT Jobs in November October hiring gains were lost as U.S. employers braced for uncertainty during a coronavirus surge, according to a trade group report
2020-12-07 21:17:00 Politics Biden Expected to Name Lloyd Austin as Defense Secretary Austin was commander of U.S. Central Command under President Obama, overseeing forces in the Middle East
2020-12-07 21:07:00 World Canada’s Trudeau Confident in Strong Recovery for 2021 Aggressive fiscal policy, consumer cash hoard should propel growth; PM offers caution about business in China
2020-12-07 20:48:00 CFO Journal Stitch Fix Hires New Finance Chief From Amazon Dan Jedda is joining a cohort of former Amazon executives who become CFOs elsewhere
2020-12-07 20:22:00 Tech TikTok Download Ban Is Blocked by Second Judge Ruling follows similar decision in case brought by the app’s content creators
2020-12-07 19:38:00 CFO Journal U.S. Watchdog Will Be Selecting Audits for Inspection More Randomly Next year, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board wants to make its target areas in audit inspections less predictable, in part to continue examining the impact of remote work on audits
2020-12-07 19:20:00 U.S. Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Jewish Property in Nazi Germany and Hungary Lawyers for the two countries say Jewish heirs’ Holocaust-era claims have no place in U.S. courts
2020-12-07 19:01:00 Politics Covid-Aid Negotiators Grapple Over Liability Protections Lawmakers also seek to iron out deal on state and local aid in roughly $900 billion framework
2020-12-07 18:52:00 Tech Uber Sells Self-Driving-Car Unit to Autonomous-Driving Startup As part of the deal, Uber will make a $400 million investment in Aurora Innovation
2020-12-07 18:25:00 Politics Trump’s Defense-Bill Veto Threat, Explained President has threatened veto over Confederate-named sites, social-media liability protections
2020-12-07 18:21:00 Markets Pimco Co-Founder Bill Gross Makes Public Request to Settle Dispute With Neighbor The conflict involves a backyard-art installation and repeatedly playing the theme song to ‘Gilligan’s Island’
2020-12-07 18:20:00 Pro PE Fund News Investor Bill Ackman and NBA’s Chris Paul Back Housing Fund Turner Impact Capital’s latest fund raised $357 million to create affordable urban housing for working families
2020-12-07 18:06:00 Opinion John Kerry’s Arab Peace Learning from the former secretary of State’s words of four years ago.
2020-12-07 18:06:00 Opinion Paying for More Covid Relief Republicans should insist on using the $429 billion in Fed funds.
2020-12-07 18:05:00 Opinion Biden’s Identity Health-Care Pick Becerra’s only qualification is that he sued Trump many times.
2020-12-07 17:52:00 Business Toll Brothers Reports 9% Rise in Home Sales as Buyers Seek More Space CEO Douglas Yearley says housing market is strongest he has seen in 30 years at company
2020-12-07 17:52:00 Opinion Defense Is on the Ballot in Georgia With a majority, Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders would resume cuts to vital military spending.
2020-12-07 17:51:00 Opinion South Dakota’s Balanced Covid Response They’ve called me ‘reckless’ and a ‘denier,’ but our numbers are much better than those of Illinois, New Jersey and New York.
2020-12-07 17:50:00 Opinion Covid and the New Age of Censorship It doesn’t promote public health when media and tech companies stifle scientific debate.
2020-12-07 17:49:00 Opinion Can’t Stand ‘Imagine’? I’ve Got ‘Help!’ John Lennon’s most famous song is far from his best.
2020-12-07 17:48:00 Opinion The Silence of Pope Francis Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai goes to jail—and his shepherd is missing in action.
2020-12-07 17:48:00 Opinion Climate Finance May Foul the Economy The effects of Biden’s Treasury regulating ‘environmental risk’ will likely be perverse.
2020-12-07 17:47:00 Books ‘The Great Demographic Reversal’ Review: The Perils of Aging As workers become fewer in number and global wages rise, we may see less inequality but more inflation and higher interest rates.
2020-12-07 17:26:00 Business Companies Face New Pressures to Diversify Boards. It’s Sensitive. Nasdaq and California efforts to bring more minorities and other underrepresented groups into boardrooms raise awkward recruiting challenges; Avoiding being ‘tokenized’
2020-12-07 16:59:00 Media & Marketing MSNBC to Name Rashida Jones President, Succeeding Phil Griffin Mr. Griffin, who has been with the cable news network for 25 years, will leave after the end of January
2020-12-07 16:54:00 Music Review ‘We Will Always Love You’ by the Avalanches Review: A Sonic Spaceship Ride The Australian indie group returns with an album inspired by the Voyager Golden Records that combines way-back samples with brand-new music into a far-out whole.
2020-12-07 16:54:00 Markets How to Invest in Gold
2020-12-07 16:44:00 U.S. FCC Awards $9.2 Billion for Construction of Rural Broadband Networks Initiative seeks to provide high-speed internet access for millions over next decade
2020-12-07 16:31:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Defense Bill Proposes Anti-Money-Laundering Whistleblower Program The proposed rules would offer an award to those who report possible violations of anti-money-laundering laws to the Treasury or the Justice Department that lead to successful enforcement
2020-12-07 16:31:00 Tech Senator Seeks Answers From Google CEO Over IAC Feud Letter from Sen. Ron Wyden follows WSJ article that said Google was weighing penalties against IAC over software
2020-12-07 16:26:00 Politics Georgia Again Certifies Biden’s Win Recertification marks third time Georgia officials counted ballots cast in presidential election
2020-12-07 16:10:00 Politics Covid-Aid Talks Jolted by Election Results, Pandemic’s Surge Democrats and Republicans converge on $900 billion coronavirus relief bill after long impasse
2020-12-07 15:57:00 Markets Demand for Corporate Bonds Drives Inflation-Adjusted Yields to Zero The development highlights how demand for fixed-income assets is reducing their potential returns
2020-12-07 15:47:00 Politics Federal Investigators Say Peter Navarro Violated Hatch Act U.S. Office of Special Counsel says Trump’s trade adviser knowingly violated the law against government employees’ political activity
2020-12-07 15:00:00 Business In Battle Against Hackers, Companies Try to Deceive the Deceivers The idea is to convince the attackers they have been successful, so that they will then reveal their methods
2020-12-07 14:59:00 Opinion GM Sees the Future and It Is an Electric One The socialization of the U.S. automobile market is intensifying. Increasingly there will be a dependence of revenue based on what the government gives them in credits or takes away in penalties rather than what makes real profit.
2020-12-07 14:58:00 Opinion Losing Your Job Without Losing Your Home Mortgage-default insurance can induce private lenders to expand access to home financing by families of modest means.
2020-12-07 14:57:00 Opinion Shutdowns Can Sometimes Bring Out the Best in Us Being stuck at home has forced me to go on a life diet—to learn what’s important and to shed the rest of my life’s baggage.
2020-12-07 14:52:00 Logistics Report For Airlines, Dry Ice in Vaccine Transport Demands Special Attention The refrigerant needed to maintain some doses during distribution is regulated as a dangerous good for aviation transport
2020-12-07 14:50:00 World U.S. Adds Senior Chinese Lawmakers to Hong Kong Sanctions Blacklist Trump administration targets most of the leadership of China’s legislature
2020-12-07 14:33:00 Business Dish Network to Pay $210 Million to Settle Telemarketing Suit Settlement is largest civil penalty ever paid for telemarketing violations under the FTC Act, Justice Department says
2020-12-07 14:19:00 Markets These Clothes Are Hip to Be Square Payments company Square has released a line of clothes named after its digital wallet
2020-12-07 14:12:00 World Pope Francis to Visit Iraq in March Trip will be first international travel by pope since before pandemic
2020-12-07 13:41:00 Life & Arts The Hottest Trend in College Football: Opting Out of the Pandemic Season A stream of football players are ending their collegiate careers early to dodge Covid and prepare for the pros.
2020-12-07 13:29:00 Business Target Follows Others in Accusing Poultry Suppliers of Price Fixing Perdue, Sanderson and Tyson Foods are among chicken producers facing lawsuits
2020-12-07 13:14:00 Opinion Conspiracy Theorists Are Out to Get Each Other Trump’s crazy election theories come after the media has been peddling similar fare for years.
2020-12-07 13:13:00 Opinion Americans Need Help While Awaiting a Vaccine Details of a Covid-19 relief bill are already negotiated. Time for Washington to act.
2020-12-07 13:00:00 Business Why Companies Should Stop Scaring Employees About Cybersecurity If they want workers to be more vigilant, fear doesn’t work. Fortunately, there are alternatives.
2020-12-07 12:11:00 Life & Arts Vintage Patagonia Fleeces: Fluff That’s Worth a Fortune A community of rabid collectors and resellers are amassing old Patagonia fleeces, driving up the price for jackets in manic patterns and with particularly plush shells.
2020-12-07 12:03:00 Life & Arts Proof That 2020 is Chaos: The Cleveland Browns Will Have a Winning Record A forlorn franchise is 9-3 and loudly knocking on the door of the playoffs for the first time since the 2002 season.
2020-12-07 11:56:00 Politics What Might Unite a Divided Washington Behind Joe Biden? Unsexy Infrastructure Roads, bridges, airports, subways, broadband—infrastructure might be the way to smash through the political roadblocks
2020-12-07 11:45:00 Opinion Locked Down in La La Land
2020-12-07 11:31:00 U.S. EPA to Retain Existing Soot Standards After Review Agency decides that soot-pollution rules are adequate; research suggests that tougher standards could save lives
2020-12-07 11:16:00 Business Who Gets Covid-19 Vaccine First? Hospitals Assess How to Divvy Up Shots With initial supplies expected to fall short, hospitals look to lotteries and risk assessments to prioritize early vaccines
2020-12-07 10:50:00 U.S. On Student Debt, Biden Must Decide Whose Loans to Cancel Debt forgiveness may help the economy but risks helping groups seen as privileged and widening political fault lines
2020-12-07 10:46:00 World Former Sen. Paul Sarbanes of Maryland Dies at 87 Democrat represented the state for 30 years in the Senate
2020-12-07 10:28:00 Business Conagra to Sell Peter Pan Peanut Butter Brand to Post Holdings Conagra has been shifting away from making and selling peanut-butter spreads sold under private brand names
2020-12-07 09:03:00 Markets Kodak, Lyft, Exxon Mobil: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today U.S. stock futures edged lower as investors worried about elevated Covid-19 infection levels
2020-12-07 09:00:00 Business How to Protect Your Privacy When Working From Home There are ways to keep colleagues from intruding on your home life, and family members from intruding on your work life
2020-12-07 08:44:00 World AstraZeneca and Pfizer Ask India for Emergency-Use Covid-19 Vaccine Authorizations Approval would circumvent a long trial and application process and help speed up production
2020-12-07 08:31:00 Markets Foreign Investors Can Learn to Love Japan Again The country’s stocks have been outperforming, and the combination of many cheap cyclical stocks and strong balance sheets offers reason to believe they will continue to
2020-12-07 08:00:00 Life & Arts Exposed to Covid-19 During the Holidays? Here Are Safe Tests and Practices Experts at top medical centers discuss quarantining, testing and informing people that you may be infected
2020-12-07 08:00:00 World Biden Win Raises Pressure on Brazil’s Bolsonaro to Protect Amazon Trump administration had largely kept silent about deforestation. The incoming U.S. president wants Brazil to change course.
2020-12-07 07:56:00 Markets U.S. Stock Futures Slide as Covid-19 Cases Rise Restrictions to slow the spread of coronavirus went into effect in California in a fresh sign of dimming economic prospects
2020-12-07 07:49:00 World Covert Chinese Trade With North Korea Moves Into the Open China is no longer trying to hide smuggling activity as it seeks to help Pyongyang endure sanctions, U.S. officials say
2020-12-07 07:00:00 Business Bob Dylan Sells Entire Songwriting Catalog Universal Music Publishing Group acquires iconic singer-songwriter’s music
2020-12-07 07:00:00 Markets Energy Pipelines’ Bad Year Has a Silver Lining The downturn in the oil markets isn’t all bad news for pipeline operators
2020-12-07 06:03:00 Markets The Trouble With Riding the Coattails of Billionaires Patrick Drahi’s opportunistic offer to take Altice Europe private highlights the governance risk when investors play second fiddle to a controlling shareholder
2020-12-07 06:02:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Model Portfolio Surge, Corporate Cash Hoards, Digital Payment Plans Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2020-12-07 06:00:00 Politics WSJ CEO Council 2020: Key Things to Watch Interviews planned with Elon Musk, Jake Sullivan, Cedric Richmond, Mark Milley, Deborah Birx, Anthony Fauci, Justin Trudeau and more
2020-12-07 05:30:00 Politics Trump-Era Tax Rule Benefiting Some Multinationals May Get Revised Under Biden New administration may seek to revise or repeal rule that limits reach of the U.S. minimum tax on foreign profits
2020-12-07 05:30:00 Markets Some Small Hedge Funds Reap Big Gains in Tough Times As volatility hurts many investing strategies, a few of the smallest funds are putting up some of the biggest returns
2020-12-07 05:30:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Whistleblowers Worry SEC’s Interpretation of ‘Independent Analysis’ Could Discourage Tipsters New guidance from the regulator states that a tip must offer insight ‘beyond what would be reasonably apparent’ from publicly available information
2020-12-07 05:30:00 Derby’s Take: Fed Official Wonders If Much Larger Balance Sheet Needed
2020-12-07 05:30:00 Pro VC Industry News Overvalued Startups Could Be ‘Shorted’ by New Firm Apeira Capital wants to bring hedge-fund-style techniques to startup investing
2020-12-07 05:30:00 Markets Farmers, Buyers Tussle Over Cocoa Prices Cocoa futures recently hit a nine-month high in November, despite the pandemic’s blow to demand
2020-12-07 04:22:00 Markets China’s Record Exports Are the Flipside of the Pandemic in the U.S. Few would have pegged surging Chinese exports to the U.S. as a likely outcome for 2020 a year ago. But that looks likely to persist a while yet.
2020-12-07 04:13:00 Markets ‘Crude Oil Treasure’ Debacle Leads to Fine for Chinese Bank Investment product generated big losses for individual investors when U.S. oil prices briefly went negative
2020-12-07 03:48:00 Markets Shares of Chinese Companies on U.S. Blacklist Fall as Index Eviction Looms FTSE Russell’s decision hits shares of companies including Hangzhou Hikvision Digital
2020-12-07 01:54:00 World China Exports Generate Record Trade Surplus With November exports up 21% from a year earlier and import growth slowing, surplus hit $75.42 billion
2020-12-06 22:59:00 Politics Georgia Sen. Loeffler, Challenger Warnock Spar in Debate With Senate Control at Stake Ms. Loeffler avoided questions about whether November’s election in Georgia was rigged
2020-12-06 22:00:00 Deals Exxon Under Pressure From New Activist Fund Engine No. 1 plans proxy fight for four Exxon board seats
2020-12-06 21:22:00 Politics Biden to Select Rochelle Walensky to Lead the CDC Walensky is chief of infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School
2020-12-06 21:00:00 IPOs Airbnb Boosts IPO Price Range to Between $56 and $60 a Share New price range for home-rental company’s public debut equates to $39 billion to $42 billion, fully diluted
2020-12-06 20:00:00 Life & Arts The Covid Risks in the Workplace Break Room Workers find extra stress at what was once a lunchtime sanctuary for friendly chatter with colleagues; here’s how to take a breather safely on the job during the pandemic
2020-12-06 19:38:00 Life & Arts Your Boss Can Restrict Your Holiday Plans in the Pandemic Employers have latitude to know how workers are spending their off hours and can take away vacation time to protect the workplace from Covid-19
2020-12-06 19:27:00 Politics Lawmakers Look to Short-Term Funding Measure as Spending Talks Continue A vote is likely this week on a one-week continuing resolution
2020-12-06 19:03:00 Politics Biden to Nominate Xavier Becerra as Health and Human Services Secretary The California attorney general has waged legal battles to preserve the Affordable Care Act
2020-12-06 19:00:00 U.S. Fight for Upstate New York House Race Continues in Court Republican Claudia Tenney holds razor-thin tentative lead over U.S. Rep. Anthony Brindisi
2020-12-06 18:48:00 Politics Rudy Giuliani Tests Positive for Covid-19, Admitted to Hospital President Trump’s personal attorney has been leading effort to overturn last month’s election results
2020-12-06 18:14:00 World Venezuela’s Maduro Tightens Grip as Opposition Boycotts Elections Ruling party politicians are expected to take most of the 277 seats in the National Assembly
2020-12-06 18:01:00 Politics Chinese Arms Industry Ranks Second Behind U.S., Report Says The country’s global sales are larger than those of Russia and European nations
2020-12-06 17:58:00 Opinion The Curious Case of Mexican General Cienfuegos The former defense minister is released in another loss for the drug war.
2020-12-06 17:56:00 Opinion The U.A.E. Needs U.S. Arms to Ward Off Iran Misguided opposition in the Senate bodes ill for U.S. Mideast policy in the Biden administration.
2020-12-06 17:56:00 Opinion Trump Runs the Stacey Abrams Playbook Evidence-free charges of election fraud are corrosive no matter who makes them.
2020-12-06 17:55:00 Opinion Who’ll Get the Covid Vaccine First? The best option may be to inoculate those over 65 with a focus on low-income communities.
2020-12-06 17:55:00 Opinion Holocaust Survivors Deserve Their Day in Court Congress has made clear that Nazi expropriation victims can bring lawsuits.
2020-12-06 17:53:00 Books ‘One Billion Americans’ Review: More People, Fewer Problems To stay on top, says a progressive writer, the U.S. must triple its population. Maybe so. But does he mean it?
2020-12-06 17:45:00 Opinion First Cuomo, Now Newsom The Supreme Court extends in scrutiny of orders limiting the free exercise of religion to California and Kentucky.
2020-12-06 17:43:00 Opinion The Other Arizona Election Challenge Can voters ignore the state constitution when passing an initiative?
2020-12-06 17:43:00 Opinion A Weak Visa Case Against Facebook Government labor lawyers have clearly never run a business.
2020-12-06 17:42:00 Opinion Trial Lawyers vs. Arab-Israeli Peace Schumer and Menendez block a deal to bring Sudan closer to the West.
2020-12-06 16:17:00 Business Chick-fil-A Sues Poultry Suppliers, Alleging Price-Fixing Lawsuit adds one of the U.S. chicken industry’s biggest customers to expanding litigation that alleges long-running collusion among poultry processors
2020-12-06 16:00:00 Life & Arts The Challenges—and Rewards—of Deferring College During Covid Without traditional campus life and classes, some students postpone education; ‘You need to have a plan,’ a counselor says, but even part-time jobs are hard to find
2020-12-06 15:00:00 Economy Economy Week Ahead: Inflation, Stimulus and Layoffs Observers expect China’s exports accelerated in November as surges in Covid-19 cases in Europe and the U.S. supported demand for medical goods
2020-12-06 14:08:00 Politics Georgia Rejects Trump’s Request to Reverse His Election Loss President had asked Georgia governor to call a special legislative session and push lawmakers to appoint pro-Trump electors
2020-12-06 14:00:00 Markets Should Investors Buy a Stock After It Splits? Buying a stock that has just split generally pays off. But in some years it’s a losing move.
2020-12-06 13:28:00 Opinion A Stimulus Dollar Is Only a Dollar Democrats devise magic ‘multipliers’ to justify spending, but the returns never show.
2020-12-06 13:27:00 Business Watchdog for U.S. Agency That Brokered Controversial Kodak Loan Deal Finds No Wrongdoing Sen. Elizabeth Warren had called for an investigation into the now-halted $765 million loan for the one-time photo giant to produce drug ingredients in the Covid-19 fight
2020-12-06 13:27:00 Opinion Schumer’s Wages of ‘Resistance’ Senate Democrats did everything they could to delay Trump’s nominees. Republicans won’t forget.
2020-12-06 13:13:00 A-hed Everest Gets an Altitude Adjustment: Nepal and China Agree on Height The world’s highest peak is about to get a new, unified official measurement from the nations it straddles
2020-12-06 13:10:00 Politics U.S. Diplomats’ Illnesses Likely Linked to Pulsed Energy Attack Panel releases findings on medical symptoms experienced by those working in Cuba, China
2020-12-06 13:00:00 Politics Pompeo to Head Home to Kansas With Plenty of Alternatives After championing Trump’s worldview, secretary of state is described by supporters as being well positioned for domestic political pursuits
2020-12-06 12:52:00 World Facing War, Virus and Locusts, Ethiopia’s Once-Golden Economy Loses Its Luster Nation’s economy has expanded at an average of almost 10% in recent years, but growth has ground to a halt: ‘Fighting for our very existence’
2020-12-06 12:44:00 Opinion The GOP Needs to Have a Health-Care Plan If the U.S. were able to create a health-care system from scratch there is no doubt that it would be a vast improvement over the mishmash we have today.
2020-12-06 12:43:00 World Saudis and Israelis Publicly Clash Over Palestinian Rights Unusually blunt remarks came during a regional security forum held against the backdrop of U.S.-brokered normalization deals between the Jewish state and Gulf Arab neighbors
2020-12-06 12:41:00 Opinion ‘Urgent’ Stimulus Package Isn’t That Urgent It’s hard to believe that the economy could survive and thrive during the state lockdowns preferred by Democrats in the last eight months, but it cannot scrape by for eight weeks until Bidenomics arrives and the spending floodgates reopen.
2020-12-06 12:00:00 Politics After 2020 Losses, Some Democrats Question Party’s Health-Care Focus Some former candidates and strategists say Democrats should have focused more on people who were losing their jobs and struggling to pay rent
2020-12-06 10:05:00 Tech Google Spars With Barry Diller’s IAC on Marketing Practices Alphabet unit considers penalties after its audit faulted IAC’s treatment of Chrome browser extensions
2020-12-06 10:00:00 Markets Inside the Retreat of Jamie Dinan’s York, a One-Time Star Hedge Fund Energy bets gone wrong and a rocky succession played roles in the firm’s pullback from hedge funds
2020-12-06 10:00:00 Economy Europe Seeks to Boost Pandemic-Damaged Economy by Spending Don’t cut budgets—spend more. That is the prescription the European Union is giving its member governments.
2020-12-06 09:00:00 Tech Five Pricing Moves Companies Made in 2020, From Zoom to Peloton From free video calling to a $2,495 stationary bike, here’s a look at how companies used pricing to respond to the coronavirus crisis
2020-12-06 09:00:00 CFO Journal Companies Could Face Pressure to Disclose More ESG Data The Biden administration may push for rules that require companies to clearly spell out climate-change related risks, as well as other sustainability metrics
2020-12-06 08:34:00 World Long a Holdout From Covid-19 Restrictions, Sweden Ends Its Pandemic Experiment Government imposes mandatory measures after failing to contain new surge in infections
2020-12-06 08:00:00 Business Pandemic Pushes Fuel Makers in Richer Countries to the Brink Covid-19 has accelerated a wave of refinery closures, igniting concerns about energy supply
2020-12-06 08:00:00 Politics Trump’s Possible 2024 Bid Leaves Other GOP Candidates in a Bind Republican hopefuls will need to lay the groundwork for potential campaigns of their own without alienating the president and his supporters
2020-12-06 07:00:00 Markets Thank the Fed for the Stock Market’s Run—And the Plodding Pace to Come Shares have won big this year, not primarily because earnings went up but because the cost of money went down almost to zero
2020-12-06 05:30:00 Business These Gas-Station Entrepreneurs Favored Food Over Fuel and Got Rich Britain’s Issa brothers became billionaires by emphasizing retail at filling stations. Now they are expanding in the U.S.
2020-12-06 05:30:00 Markets Jack Ma’s Ant Group Ramped Up Loans, Exposing Achilles’ Heel of China’s Banking System Partnering with the fintech giant has higher risks for smaller lenders, which are already on shaky ground
2020-12-05 21:10:00 World Japan’s Asteroid Odyssey: 3 Billion Miles for a Pinch of Dust Hayabusa 2 space probe delivers capsule of material from asteroid Ryugu back to Earth
2020-12-05 18:30:00 Politics Biden Eyes Three Candidates to Lead U.S. Health Agency New names underscore president-elect’s interest in choosing people who have defended Affordable Care Act
2020-12-05 16:30:00 World Photos of the Week: Couple Behind BioNTech’s Covid Vaccine, California Order Prompts Covid Tests, Bond Fire Ravages Silverado and More Selection of photos from Nov. 29 to Dec. 5 by The Wall Street Journal’s photo editors
2020-12-05 15:40:00 Politics Trump Renews Push to Overturn Georgia Presidential Vote President calls Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Saturday to urge the state legislature to reverse President-elect Joe Biden’s win in the state
2020-12-05 13:21:00 Business Gene Editing Shows Promise in Sickle-Cell Disease Companies investigate how therapies including Crispr might treat a debilitating genetic disease
2020-12-05 12:01:00 Life & Arts How Our Food Vocabulary Reflects the Evolution of Taste The words we use to praise and insult dishes have changed dramatically over time.
2020-12-05 12:00:00 World Mexico’s President Pushed Hard for Release of General Arrested in U.S. Ex-defense minister had been accused of aiding a drug cartel, sparking anger among top Mexican military officers
2020-12-05 12:00:00 Life & Arts A Life-Changing Ferrari 458 Spider A car named Coco inspired a biotech consultant to launch the first all-female Ferrari rally as well as a foundation that helps young women.
2020-12-05 12:00:00 Markets Abu Dhabi’s $230 Billion Man Bet the World Would Overcome Covid-19 Khaldoon al-Mubarak made an assessment in March that this challenging year would bring new opportunities to lessen his homeland’s dependence on oil. He spent billions backing up that belief.
2020-12-05 12:00:00 Tech How Some Black Startup Founders Are Thriving in a Pandemic Year An unexpected side-effect of lockdowns: It can be easier to get a meeting with a venture capitalist. For minority founders in tech, that’s made a big difference as Silicon Valley reckons with race issues.
2020-12-05 11:31:00 Markets Stock Buybacks: What Every Investor Needs to Know They have been attacked by many academics and progressive politicians. Now, with a new administration, the battle could soon get even more heated.
2020-12-05 10:00:00 World Venezuela’s Regime Challenges Biden With Sham Election Vote for National Assembly will give Maduro control of every institution as country slides into chaos
2020-12-05 08:17:00 World Russia Begins Rolling Out Sputnik V Coronavirus Vaccine Doctors, teachers and social workers in Moscow are among the first to receive the shot
2020-12-05 08:00:00 Life & Arts For Covid-Era Wedding Dresses, Anything Goes Whether it’s for a backyard ‘minimony’ or a public-park ‘micro-wedding,’ ‘corona brides’ are getting creative with jumpsuits, short dresses and other options that Grandma would hate
2020-12-05 08:00:00 Business One Answer to America’s Recycling Problems—Make Big Brands Pay Consumer-product makers are under pressure to pitch in as customers and lawmakers pay more attention to plastic waste
2020-12-05 07:00:00 Art Review ‘Degree Zero: Drawing at Midcentury’ Review: Sketching a Path Into a New Era An exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art shows how artists used the most elemental of creative practices—drawing—to reinvent their world.
2020-12-05 07:00:00 Film Review Films From a Vanished World The films collected in a new Blu-ray set are precious records of the Yiddish cinema that was virtually extinguished by the Holocaust.
2020-12-05 06:05:00 Markets These Investors Are Riding the Bitcoin Wave to New Highs As the digital currency approaches $20,000, new buyers benefit from their crypto passion
2020-12-05 06:03:00 World Scientists Investigate Whether Exposure to Earlier Coronavirus Helped Asia Fight Covid-19 Some researchers looking at theory to explain why East Asia has experienced fewer cases, deaths than U.S. and Europe
2020-12-04 23:04:00 Business Sanford Health Deal to Create Regional Hospital Powerhouse Collapses After CEO’s Exit Sanford’s combination with Intermountain Healthcare would have created a giant with 69 hospitals across six states
2020-12-04 21:59:00 Politics Trump Campaign Suffers Fresh Legal Defeats Judges rule against president and supporters as federal deadlines loom for final election results
2020-12-04 21:51:00 Politics Federal Student-Loan Borrowers Get Another Month’s Reprieve Millions of borrowers won’t have to start repaying their student loans until February
2020-12-04 20:57:00 Politics Federal Judge Orders Government to Fully Restore DACA Order concludes three-year legal battle over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program
2020-12-04 20:22:00 Politics Bribery-for-Pardon Investigation Involved Prominent Washington Lawyer California billionaire GOP donor enlisted Abbe Lowell to push for friend’s pardon with White House
2020-12-04 19:16:00 Politics Chinese Professor Pleads Guilty in Huawei Theft Case Bo Mao admitted to lying to federal agents involved in a Justice Department probe of the Chinese technology giant
2020-12-04 19:13:00 Business Chance the Rapper Sued by Former Manager In lawsuit, Pat Corcoran alleges he is owed millions in unpaid commissions, expenses
2020-12-04 18:59:00 Politics Supreme Court Agrees to Consider Medicaid Work Requirements Federal program allowing states to make Medicaid recipients work has been blocked by lower courts
2020-12-04 18:30:00 Opinion Payrolls Take a Covid Break Job growth slowed but much of the recovery remains strong.
2020-12-04 18:29:00 World Saudi Arabia, Qatar Near Deal to End Gulf Dispute, Officials Say After White House-brokered talks, Gulf leaders see progress resolving three-year-old rift between Qatar, neighbors
2020-12-04 18:29:00 Opinion Pennsylvania Vetoes Help for Business The legislation offered liability protections for good-faith actors.
2020-12-04 18:27:00 Opinion Now Who’s Contesting Elections? The Democratic House could overturn results in Iowa and New York.
2020-12-04 18:18:00 Business Activision Blizzard Sues Netflix for Allegedly Poaching Its Former Finance Chief The videogame publishing company said Netflix illegally recruited Spencer Neumann in late 2018, prompting a contract breach
2020-12-04 18:15:00 National Security U.S. Will Move Nearly All Troops Out of Somalia, Officials Say Relocation of 700 troops from Somalia reverses administration course; move follows troop cuts in Iraq, Afghanistan
2020-12-04 18:13:00 Life & Arts Fudge Cookies If there were ever a year to ship our loved ones cookie tins brimming with cheer, this is it. With these top techniques from pro bakers, festive treats arrive fresh, intact and full of sparkle.
2020-12-04 17:56:00 Life & Arts Bulla Cookies If there were ever a year to ship our loved ones cookie tins brimming with cheer, this is it. With these top techniques from pro bakers, festive treats arrive fresh, intact and full of sparkle.
2020-12-04 17:46:00 Life & Arts Pistachio Pinwheels If there were ever a year to ship our loved ones cookie tins brimming with cheer, this is it. With these top techniques from pro bakers, festive treats arrive fresh, intact and full of sparkle.
2020-12-04 17:42:00 Books Conservatism and Liberalism: Two Books on the Great Divide Two strikingly different ways of seeing the world, ordering society and understanding human destiny.
2020-12-04 17:35:00 Opinion Elite Public Schools Are the Poor’s Best Hope Children from wealthy families will always have access to high-achieving schools, but for low-income families of all races the exam schools are their best chance for an equally high-level education.
2020-12-04 17:34:00 Books ‘Prince Philip Revealed’ Review: Ever at Her Side From his chaotic childhood to a lifetime as consort to the queen, Prince Philip has remained irrepressibly himself.
2020-12-04 17:34:00 Politics Biden Says Inauguration Will Resemble Virtual Convention President-elect deems ‘a gigantic inaugural parade down Pennsylvania Avenue’ as unlikely
2020-12-04 17:32:00 Opinion Why Do We Still Count by Race Like We Do? There is only one race: the human race.
2020-12-04 17:32:00 Books ‘Proustian Uncertainties’: Where Memory Leads The shifts and ambiguities in the novelist’s work resonate with a historian who has chronicled the shadowy forces of persecution.
2020-12-04 17:20:00 World U.S. Pulls Some Embassy Staff From Iraq as Regional Tensions Rise Concerns about possible retaliation around one-year anniversary of U.S. killing of Iran’s Soleimani prompts reduction in civilian presence in Baghdad
2020-12-04 17:14:00 Autos Industry About 150 U.S. Cadillac Dealers to Exit Brand, Rather Than Sell Electric Cars About 17% of Cadillac’s 880 U.S. dealerships decide against spending for necessary upgrades
2020-12-04 16:57:00 Opinion The Price of Turkey’s Russian Dalliance Trump should impose sanctions against Ankara for purchasing the S-400.
2020-12-04 16:56:00 Opinion Mask Wars Revisited Use of face coverings increased impressively right into the current national outbreak.
2020-12-04 16:56:00 Opinion An Explosion, a Relief Effort and Canadians’ Enduring Gratitude Every year, Nova Scotia sends a Christmas tree to Boston in appreciation of the heroism of 1917.
2020-12-04 16:53:00 Markets Chevron, General Motors, Zoom, AT&T: Stocks That Defined the Week Here are seven major companies whose stocks moved on the week’s news
2020-12-04 16:41:00 Politics Weakening Jobs Numbers Spur Covid-19 Aid Efforts Lawmakers are currently negotiating details of a roughly $900 billion plan
2020-12-04 16:38:00 Logistics Report Logistics, Parcel Hiring Soars Ahead of Expected Holiday E-commerce Rush Package carriers added 81,900 jobs in November, their largest monthly gain in 23 years
2020-12-04 16:20:00 Markets Investors Circle Largest Corporate Cash Hoard Ever Alternatives for companies include buybacks, capital projects, employee hiring, reducing debt and M&A
2020-12-04 16:19:00 Politics Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp Backs President Despite His Attacks on State GOP Leaders Trump heads to state Saturday to campaign for Sens. Perdue and Loeffler in runoffs amid deep rifts in Republican ranks
2020-12-04 16:09:00 Politics Trump’s Campaign Went Into Debt But Raked in Postelection Cash President’s finances were boosted by an email-and- text-message fundraising drive tied to his court battle
2020-12-04 16:04:00 Markets Fed Readies More Guidance on Bond-Buying Plans Officials aren’t inclined to provide more stimulus by increasing the pace or changing the composition of their asset purchases
2020-12-04 15:56:00 Politics Anti-Money-Laundering Measure Poised to Clear Congress Overseas companies registered in U.S. would have to declare their true ownership
2020-12-04 15:40:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Foreign Bribery Enforcement on Track for Record-Breaking Year A large portion of the $7.76 billion in total fines were paid to foreign authorities, underscoring a growing trend toward greater international cooperation
2020-12-04 15:37:00 Economy U.S. Exports, Imports Rise for Fifth Month as Shipments to China Hit a Record A continued recovery in global commerce is being driven by a strong economic rebound in China
2020-12-04 15:18:00 Economy Fed’s Evans, Disappointed by Jobs Data, Isn’t Ready for More Fed Stimulus Chicago Fed leader says government aid is quickest way to deliver new support to the economy
2020-12-04 15:13:00 World Europe Relaxes Covid-19 Rules For Christmas France, Spain, the U.K. and parts of Germany will ease restrictions to let families get together, despite still-high contagion
2020-12-04 14:53:00 World Race to Vaccinate World Against Covid-19 Intensifies Governments scramble to secure limited vaccine supplies, and only a small sliver of the population will receive a shot for months to come
2020-12-04 14:49:00 Life & Arts Holiday Cookies: Best Recipes for Shipping and Gifting If there were ever a year to ship our loved ones cookie tins brimming with cheer, this is it. With these top techniques from pro bakers, festive treats arrive fresh, intact and full of sparkle.
2020-12-04 14:45:00 Experience Report Scooter Firms Invest in Rider Training Schools Companies such as Lime and Tier are boosting training programs to reduce accidents—and placate city officials
2020-12-04 14:13:00 Politics House Passes Bill Decriminalizing Marijuana at Federal Level Measure, which would leave cannabis laws to the states, isn’t expected to be taken up by Senate
2020-12-04 13:53:00 Opinion ‘The Squad’ Faces a ‘Freedom Force’ Trump lost badly in New York and California, but Republican candidates picked up House seats in both states. Here’s how two of them did it.
2020-12-04 13:51:00 Opinion Oregon’s Segregated Covid Relief Fund Is Blatantly Unconstitutional Maria Garcia applied for aid and was denied simply because she doesn’t ‘identify as Black.’
2020-12-04 13:51:00 Life & Arts Artist Ed Ruscha Spent More Than 50 Years Photographing the Same Los Angeles Street ‘12 Sunsets,’ his new interactive digital archive, includes 65,000 images covering all 22 miles of Sunset Boulevard
2020-12-04 13:24:00 Business Glencore CEO Ivan Glasenberg to Retire After 18 Years at the Helm A successor to one-time-fugitive Marc Rich, he spearheaded the company’s dominant position in coal mining
2020-12-04 13:11:00 Economy Your Covid-19 Shopping Habits Are Changing What Jobs Are Available The pandemic is accelerating a shift in the labor market to warehouse and delivery jobs supporting ecommerce
2020-12-04 13:03:00 Markets I Started Trading Hot Stocks on Robinhood. Then I Couldn’t Stop. Spinning prices, scratch-off rewards and flying confetti? Even the most skeptical investor can be drawn in.
2020-12-04 13:00:00 Business Temple Settles With U.S. Over Falsified M.B.A. Rankings Data University agrees to pay $700,000 to Education Department without admitting wrongdoing
2020-12-04 12:55:00 Masterpiece Gateway to a Saint’s Story The 28 reliefs in Andrea Pisano’s doors for the Florence Baptistery depict the Virtues and scenes from the life of John the Baptist.
2020-12-04 12:21:00 Business SEC Settles with Cheesecake Factory Over Covid-19 Effect Claims Restaurant chain agrees to $125,000 penalty without admitting to findings that it made misleading disclosures
2020-12-04 12:01:00 Markets Employment Picture Darkening, Even More than Jobs Figures Suggest Situation has already gotten worse since the November jobs report was compiled
2020-12-04 12:00:00 Opinion Democratic Leaders Go Wild Public officials defy their own virus rules.
2020-12-04 11:33:00 Books ‘Dark, Salt, Clear’ Review: The Sing of the Sea Out on the water or down in the pub, Cornish fishermen hold on to an ancient way of life.
2020-12-04 11:32:00 Books ‘Singular Sensation’ Review: Broadway Reborn, Again From ‘Rent’ to ‘The Producers,’ the 1990s proved a decade of stage hits from unexpected sources.
2020-12-04 11:30:00 Books Five Best: Lynne Truss on British Literary Murders Selected by the author of the Constable Twitten mystery series.
2020-12-04 11:29:00 Books Fiction: Moral Hazzard Reading Shirley Hazzard’s fiction and essays is a bracing confrontation with a fearless mind.
2020-12-04 11:28:00 Books Children’s Books: Picture Books Perfect for Hanukkah and Christmas Six new books to help make at-home holidays bright.
2020-12-04 11:26:00 Books Mysteries: Tom Nolan on Christie for Christmas A holiday feast of cozy mayhem from Agatha Christie, John Banville and Anne Perry.
2020-12-04 11:25:00 Markets If Covid Doesn’t Scare You, Then Neither Should This Plane Americans have said they were more concerned about flying on a Boeing 737 MAX jet than they were of catching Covid on a flight
2020-12-04 11:25:00 Books Science Fiction: Another Round in Oasis Ernest Cline returns to a virtually puzzling future with ‘Ready Player Two.’
2020-12-04 11:22:00 World Denmark to End Oil Exploration in Shift Away From Fossil Fuels Scandinavian country’s move is among the most drastic yet to curb carbon emissions
2020-12-04 11:09:00 Economy Kudlow Calls for Extension of Enhanced U.S. Jobless Benefits President Trump’s top economic adviser urges lawmakers to strike a stimulus deal
2020-12-04 10:17:00 Business Meatpacker JBS Removed At-Risk Workers from Beef Plant Amid Covid-19 Surge Company said it sent home about 200 employees as virus cases rise at its Colorado processing facility
2020-12-04 09:42:00 World Bangladesh Moves Rohingya Refugees From Camps to Remote Island Authorities see the newly developed island of Bhasan Char as a solution to overcrowding but advocacy groups oppose the strategy
2020-12-04 09:39:00 Politics Split Senate Means Narrow Path for Biden’s Nominees Republican senators signal they plan to show deference to president-elect’s picks, but no ‘rubber stamp’
2020-12-04 09:20:00 Markets Model Portfolios Surging as Advisers Seek Quick Ways to Invest Client Money Assets in these pre-baked investment kits recently surpassed $4 trillion to reach a new high
2020-12-04 09:07:00 Markets Cheesecake Factory, Boeing, Ulta Beauty, DocuSign: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today U.S. stock futures were higher despite weaker-than-expected jobs numbers
2020-12-04 08:15:00 Life & Arts 27 Great Holiday Gift Ideas From Truly Chic Hotel Boutiques Out of distinct, delectable holiday ideas? Hit the hotel gift shop—no flight required.
2020-12-04 08:08:00 World North Korea Shows Its Softer Side. ‘It’s Finally Kimchi Season.’ Kim Jong Un’s propaganda machine turns off the vitriol and turns on the charm
2020-12-04 08:02:00 World China’s Digital Response to Covid-19 Hits a Glitch—Seniors Don’t Understand It Pandemic deepens digital divide in largely cashless, smartphone-driven society, prompting Beijing to order public services to make exceptions for elderly
2020-12-04 07:56:00 Life & Arts The Question Dogging MLB’s Job Market: Will the National League Use the DH? The NL used the designated hitter to help pitchers stay healthy during the 2020 pandemic season. No one knows yet whether it will be back next season.
2020-12-04 07:33:00 Markets Lyft’s Path to Profits Could Stall in Traffic While Covid-19 has damaged company’s ride-share volume, it may have boosted margins somewhat
2020-12-04 07:03:00 Markets Big Tech’s Auto Dreams Are Stuck in the Slow Lane Tech’s future in cars will likely be more evolutionary than revolutionary
2020-12-04 06:48:00 Markets Dividends Aren’t Always a Reliable Guide to Bank Health Investors need to look beyond the cash when restrictions are lifted on shareholder payouts from European banks
2020-12-04 06:02:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Worrying About 2022, Retirement Contributions Return, Airline Credit Card Decline Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2020-12-04 06:00:00 CMO Today 9-Year-Old YouTube Star Ryan Kaji Opens Virtual World on Roblox ‘Ryan’s World,’ which boasts a $500 million retail empire, is coming to one of the hottest game platforms of 2020
2020-12-04 05:30:00 Markets Weather-Upending La Niña Is Headache for Farmers World-Wide Characterized by cooler-than-normal waters in the Pacific, it causes dry conditions in some parts of the globe, heavy rains in others
2020-12-04 05:30:00 Life & Arts Phoenix Gave Youth Sports a Pandemic Escape—Until Covid Surged Hundreds of teams flocked from more restrictive states to play in the area in recent months—and thousands more were set to arrive. But that changed this week.
2020-12-04 05:30:00 Derby’s Take: Report Hints at Earlier Need to Raise Rates
2020-12-04 05:30:00 Markets For Remote Workers, Time Is Running Out to Fix State-Tax Messes Act now if you’ve worked remotely from another state in 2020—or else
2020-12-04 05:30:00 Politics Democrats Push to Fill Postal-Service Board Seats to Stymie DeJoy, Reverse Cuts Fate of postmaster general may hinge on outcome of Senate runoffs in Georgia
2020-12-04 05:30:00 Economy U.S. Labor Market Still Healing From Pandemic Losses Economists expect job growth continued in November, but at slower pace
2020-12-04 05:30:00 Markets Investors Seek Growth Now in Paying Later Payments stocks are getting a boost from retailers’ embrace of buy now, pay later options at checkout
2020-12-04 05:12:00 Markets U.S. Stock Futures Inch Higher Ahead of Jobs Report Futures tied to the S&P 500 point to relatively muted gains, while oil jumps to its highest level since March
2020-12-03 22:22:00 Politics Congress Moves to Block Trump’s Troop Cuts in Germany A provision in the National Defense Authorization Act would defer a decision to the incoming Biden administration
2020-12-03 21:50:00 Politics Trump, RNC Raised $207.5 Million After Election Day The president, who is eyeing another run in 2024, got a fundraising windfall in opposing the 2020 results
2020-12-03 19:12:00 Opinion Who’ll Be 2020’s Margaret Chase Smith? Seventy years ago, Maine’s first female senator distinguished herself for her courage and integrity.
2020-12-03 18:46:00 Politics White House Communications Director Alyssa Farah Resigns Trump administration official is departing even as president refuses to concede losing to Biden
2020-12-03 18:45:00 Life & Arts Re-Releasing the ‘Kraken’: Mythical Beast of the Sea, Movies and Now, Election Disputes An Old Norse word for a twisty underwater creature has surfaced in a Liam Neeson meme and a pro-Trump legal threat
2020-12-03 18:41:00 Politics How Jenna Ellis Rose From Traffic Court to Trump’s Legal Team The 36-year-old’s career includes six months as a local prosecutor and a book interpreting the Constitution through a biblical lens
2020-12-03 18:38:00 Opinion Trump and the Georgia Runoffs The President will get the blame if the GOP loses the Senate.
2020-12-03 18:37:00 Opinion The Biden Terrorism Account Small investments help prevent major distractions later on.
2020-12-03 18:35:00 Opinion The FDA’s Political Inoculation Why the U.K. has approved a vaccine faster than the U.S.
2020-12-03 18:29:00 Tech U.S. in Talks With Huawei Finance Chief Meng Wanzhou About Resolving Criminal Charges Justice Department is discussing an arrangement that would allow her to return to China in exchange for admitting wrongdoing
2020-12-03 18:25:00 U.S. Five Current and Former MTA Employees Charged with Overtime Fraud One worker claimed more than $300,000 in overtime in one year
2020-12-03 18:23:00 Politics U.S. Boosts China Spying Budget to Meet Growing Economic, National-Security Threat Director of national intelligence said shift involves ‘money and manpower,’ and suggested some analysts focused on counterterrorism would be refocused on Beijing
2020-12-03 18:17:00 Tech Prominent Critic of Bias in AI Says Google Fired Her After Research Dispute, Impolitic Email Departure of Timnit Gebru, a Black employee who said her ‘humanity’ wasn’t valued, is another instance of worker strife at company
2020-12-03 18:16:00 Risk & Compliance Journal South Carolina Utility Agrees to $137.5 Million Settlement to Resolve Fraud Charges SEC charged Scana and a subsidiary with misleading investors after a $9 billion nuclear power plant expansion was canceled
2020-12-03 18:16:00 Opinion McConnell’s Spending Line Can he hold it? The answer will set the course of Biden’s presidency.
2020-12-03 18:15:00 Opinion Macron Seeks an Enlightened Islam Laïcité worked well with Catholicism, but how hard is it to tame a domestic religion?
2020-12-03 18:14:00 Markets International Oil Benchmark Weighs Adding U.S. Crude to Mix The widely followed Brent gauge could get a makeover to include prices for Texas crude, highlighting the importance of U.S. exports
2020-12-03 18:13:00 Opinion Unemployment Bonus Proves Its Harm Job openings declined sharply in August, after the $600 weekly payments stopped.
2020-12-03 18:12:00 Books ‘The National Baseball Hall of Fame Collection’ Review: A Choice of Players An oversize, lavishly illustrated celebration of America’s favorite trading-card icons and the shrine created for them in Cooperstown, N.Y.
2020-12-03 18:10:00 Opinion Software Ate the World, and Soon It Will Write Itself Developers are in short supply, but their products may acquire the capacity to replace them.
2020-12-03 18:09:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: Harvard Law Review ‘The second way to pursue a fairer Senate apportionment would be simply to ignore the constitutional provision mandating two senators for every state.’
2020-12-03 17:53:00 CIO Journal Data Science Focus Delivers for Pitney Bowes Shipping services firm plans to ramp up AI used to help automate a growing e-commerce business
2020-12-03 17:41:00 Markets HBO Max Needs the Kick from Warner’s Flicks First-run movies may help overcome confusing strategy that has limited adoption of the stand-alone streaming service
2020-12-03 17:38:00 CFO Journal Capital One CFO to Leave for Health-Insurance Startup Financial holding company names the finance chief of its business segments as successor
2020-12-03 17:21:00 Experience Report Fitness Platform Obé Rolls Out Workout Parties for Remote Friends New feature comes as the fitness industry heads toward its usual winter bump
2020-12-03 16:56:00 Politics Senate Confirms Fed Economist Christopher Waller to Board Seat Confirmation secured with fewer votes for any Fed governor since at least 1980
2020-12-03 16:54:00 Business Luminar Rises in Market Debut, Making 25-Year-Old Founder a Billionaire Austin Russell started the maker of sensor tech for self-driving cars when he was 17. Today, it went public via a SPAC
2020-12-03 16:45:00 Opinion Can Biden Bring Unity, Restrain Far Left? To reunite America, we must return to legitimate governing that respects our system and the laws as they exist.
2020-12-03 16:44:00 Opinion What Do We Expect From Our Corporations? Andrew Abela says that success of a corporation “cannot be reduced solely to profitability.” And why not?
2020-12-03 16:37:00 Opinion What’s Wrong With Accurate Voter Rolls? Ohio has done the right thing in cleaning up its voter rolls as an effective method of ensuring fair and honest elections for all its citizens.
2020-12-03 16:34:00 Politics Biden Faces Pressure From His Party Over Cabinet Picks Black, Latino lawmakers are discussing tactics to elevate preferred contenders, possibly including aligning their endorsements
2020-12-03 16:34:00 Politics Biden Expected to Tap Zients as White House Coronavirus Coordinator Jeffrey Zients served previously as Obama administration economic adviser
2020-12-03 16:34:00 Opinion Yes, Cheers for Dow 30,000 but Consider the Debit Side What happens when all this forward spending ceases or, heaven forbid, has to be paid back?
2020-12-03 16:23:00 World Egypt Frees Human Rights Advocates After International Pressure Arrest of prominent human rights defenders raised tensions with incoming administration of Joe Biden
2020-12-03 16:16:00 Pro Bankruptcy Reeling U.S. Coal Industry Sends Two More Producers to Bankruptcy White Stallion Energy and Lighthouse Resources filed for chapter 11 as Covid-19 has exacerbated the downturn in coal markets
2020-12-03 16:03:00 Business Warner Bros. to Release All 2021 Films on HBO Max, in Theaters Simultaneously With venues closed around the U.S., WarnerMedia seeks to lure subscribers to HBO Max service
2020-12-03 16:03:00 Politics Wisconsin’s Highest Court Turns Away Trump Lawsuit Challenging Election Defeat Setback is latest for president’s campaign as deadline approaches for states to finalize results
2020-12-03 15:58:00 Life & Arts Why Wine in Half Bottles Is Big This Holiday Season Smaller celebrations still demand good wines. Scaled to suit this moment, half bottles offer other benefits, too. Here, our wine columnist’s top 5 smaller-format picks.
2020-12-03 15:57:00 Film Review ‘The Prom’ Review: Sitting This One Out The screen adaptation of the recent Broadway musical has a full dance floor of star power but is far from a night to remember.
2020-12-03 15:55:00 Television Review ‘Your Honor’ Review: Crashing Into a Crime Family Bryan Cranston stars in a Showtime series about a New Orleans judge whose son is the culprit in a hit-and-run that kills the child of a vicious mobster.
2020-12-03 15:54:00 Arts What to See, Read and Listen To During the Holidays From Mariah Carey to ‘Wonder Woman,’ the entertainment season brings with it a host of options to enjoy from home
2020-12-03 15:52:00 Film Review ‘Another Round’ Review: Raising a Glass to Self-Improvement Mads Mikkelsen stars in a Danish comedy about a group of friends who try to better their lives by tweaking their blood-alcohol levels.
2020-12-03 15:50:00 Opinion ‘The Half-Life of Marie Curie’ Review: Fallout of an Affair Arkansas’s TheatreSquared offers a well-performed webcast of a play about the Nobel laureate’s persecution by the French press for her relationship with a married man.
2020-12-03 15:47:00 Television Review ‘Nurses’ Review: Essential Workers, Inessential Show Set in a pre-pandemic Toronto hospital, NBC’s series features an appealing cast and a healthy dose of hospital-drama clichés.
2020-12-03 15:43:00 Tech Trump Administration Claims Facebook Improperly Reserved Jobs for H-1B Workers Justice Department lawsuit says social-media company didn’t sufficiently advertise open positions, overlooked U.S. residents
2020-12-03 15:40:00 Film Review ‘Ammonite’ Review: Opening Up a Closed Heart A romance blossoms between an English fossil hunter and her unexpected guest in this film starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan.
2020-12-03 15:40:00 Politics Sean Patrick Maloney Wins Race to Head House Democrats’ Political Arm The representative from New York campaigned on courting voters whom the party failed to reach in the 2020 cycle
2020-12-03 15:40:00 Pro Bankruptcy Distress AMC Says It Might Go Bankrupt if You Don’t Buy Its Stock The world’s largest movie theater chain is aiming to sell enough shares to give it a bridge until the coronavirus vaccine is rolled out
2020-12-03 15:36:00 Logistics Report Pfizer Slashed Its Original Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout Target After Supply-Chain Obstacles Pharma giant expects to ship half the doses it had originally planned after finding raw materials in early production didn’t meet its standards
2020-12-03 15:19:00 Books Bestselling Books Week Ended November 28 With data from NPD BookScan
2020-12-03 15:07:00 Business Southwest Outlines Plans for Potential Furloughs Next Year Furloughs would be a first for Southwest as airlines continue to grapple with the pandemic
2020-12-03 15:00:00 Life & Arts The Covid Pandemic Produces a Kinder, Gentler Performance Review “Empathetic leadership” has some companies easing up in evaluations; “You should just be giving a pat on the back to your employees for showing up.”
2020-12-03 14:30:00 Tech Tech Tips to Celebrate Holiday Traditions—When Your Family’s Far Apart Faced with Christmas in quarantine, far-flung families are finding ways that their smartphones, tablets and other tech can help them maintain traditions
2020-12-03 14:25:00 Markets Energy Trader Vitol to Pay $90 Million to Settle U.S. Corruption Charges Company accused of using bribes to gain advantage when bidding for oil in Brazil, Mexico, Ecuador
2020-12-03 14:24:00 Tech Salesforce’s Deal for Slack Faces Post-Pandemic Test Remote working prompted the purchase but led to a premium price, analysts say
2020-12-03 14:22:00 Markets Dollar Stores Start Moving Upmarket Dollar General and Dollar Tree see a bright future in the treasure-hunt shopping experience
2020-12-03 14:03:00 Politics GOP Worries Over Georgia Senate Races Intensify Ahead of Trump’s Visit With control of the Senate in the balance, the president is attacking Georgia Republican leaders and some of his supporters are urging voters to boycott runoff elections
2020-12-03 14:01:00 Markets The Boeing 737 MAX Question Is About Price, Not Sales Ryanair’s decision to buy another 75 units of the plane is good for Boeing, but the deal probably comes at a discount
2020-12-03 13:56:00 World France Probes 76 Mosques Suspected of ‘Islamist Separatism’ Controversial action aims root out what President Macron says is a campaign to foster a parallel society where religious laws take precedence over civil ones
2020-12-03 13:56:00 Politics Coronavirus Stimulus Talks Moving in Right Direction, Party Leaders Say State and local aid as well as liability protections remain hurdles in negotiations
2020-12-03 13:38:00 Opinion Cuomo’s Political Self-Inoculation The New York Governor now wants people to take a vaccine he said they should be skeptical of.
2020-12-03 13:20:00 Opinion China Is National Security Threat No. 1 Resisting Beijing’s attempt to reshape and dominate the world is the challenge of our generation.
2020-12-03 13:16:00 Opinion Look Forward to a Biden on the Rhine Merkel’s successor will be a figurehead, but Germany will at least get a credible left-wing opposition.
2020-12-03 12:59:00 Business 3M Cuts Jobs After Coronavirus Pandemic Dents Sales Surging demand for conglomerate’s N95 masks has been offset by lower sales to offices, dentists
2020-12-03 12:56:00 Life & Arts The Clock Paradox of Quantum Physics How does an unstable nucleus ‘know’ when it’s time to decay? The answer may lie in the fabric of space itself.
2020-12-03 12:56:00 Markets Snowflake’s Cloud is Particularly Dense Fast-growing company’s business model makes forecasting a challenge and nosebleed valuation risky
2020-12-03 12:53:00 Politics Biden Names Former Obama Adviser to Lead Economic Council Brian Deese helped oversee the 2009 federal rescue of General Motors and Chrysler and helped negotiate the Paris climate accord
2020-12-03 12:47:00 Politics Senate Passes Bill to Clear Green-Card Backlog for Indian Immigrants Legislation differs from House version, leaving prospects of new law unclear
2020-12-03 12:34:00 Business California Company’s Cell-Grown Chicken Gets Nod From Singapore Singapore Food Agency deems Eat Just’s no-slaughter product safe for human consumptions
2020-12-03 12:21:00 Business Walmart, Like Amazon, to Pay U.S. Workers Holiday Bonuses Retailers make special payments during pandemic as they battle for staff during peak season
2020-12-03 12:15:00 Markets Delisting Chinese Stocks in the U.S. Won’t Sever Their Access to Global Capital U.S. action against Chinese companies on audit grounds likely won’t do the damage that it would have a decade ago
2020-12-03 12:13:00 Life & Arts Holiday Dressing for a Very Weird Festive Season When you’re more likely to Zoom than party, what kind of gay apparel should you don? Here, Yuletide looks for three types of merrymakers—and a chic Scrooge, too.
2020-12-03 12:12:00 Tech Facebook to Remove Covid-19 Vaccine Misinformation From Platforms The company is pushing back against claims it isn’t doing enough to protect its users
2020-12-03 11:58:00 Business Kroger Reports Strong, But Slowing, Sales Growth Grocer says it has built up inventory to handle high winter demand; shares fall
2020-12-03 11:01:00 Business Boeing Wins First Big 737 MAX Order Since Grounding Ended Irish discount airline’s deal for 75 MAX jets comes after waves of canceled orders for the jet, which regulators banned from flight for nearly two years
2020-12-03 10:40:00 Politics Kamala Harris Names Senior White House Staff Vice president-elect announces three women for top roles
2020-12-03 10:00:00 Markets Stripe to Offer Banking Services in Deal With Goldman Sachs, Citigroup Shopify, a Stripe customer, will begin offering the service to its merchants early next year
2020-12-03 09:59:00 Real Estate Why You’ll Want a Simpler Christmas Wreath in 2020 Over-the-top traditional wreaths seem tone-deaf this holiday. After the year we’ve had, refreshingly stripped-down, natural versions are trending
2020-12-03 09:52:00 Business Dry Ice Demand Swells as Covid-19 Vaccines Prepare for Deployment Coronavirus shots requiring ultracold temperatures, coupled with holiday food shipments, kick off ‘mad scramble’ for solid carbon dioxide
2020-12-03 09:40:00 Life & Arts How Harry Styles Became 2020’s Biggest Fashion Icon A recent Vogue photoshoot showing the singer in a full-length frock nearly broke the internet—underscoring the almost unprecedented influence he has over young men’s fashion decisions
2020-12-03 09:37:00 Markets Treasury Volatility Boosts Tradeweb Volatility and remote trading fueled near-record November; market share of corporate trading crossed 10% threshold
2020-12-03 09:16:00 Markets The Market Should Worry About 2022, Not 2021 Covid-19 vaccines make it likely that next year’s profit expectations will be met. Forecasts for a boom in 2022 are more of a stretch.
2020-12-03 09:13:00 Life & Arts Is Land Rover’s New Defender SUV More Trouble Than It’s Worth? With overlanding power and a three-foot wading depth, the handsome Defender can conquer the Andes. But the brand has well-documented reliability issues. Dan Neil on whether the benefits outweigh the risks
2020-12-03 09:05:00 Markets Canadian Banks, Led by TD and RBC, Get Boost From Stimulus Despite economic slowdown from the coronavirus pandemic, Canada’s major banks have avoided big loan losses and boosted deposits
2020-12-03 09:04:00 Experts Blog How Seniors Can Get the Most Out of  Zoom Calls
2020-12-03 08:58:00 World France Mourns Former President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, a Modernizing Force in Europe Statesman helped develop European Union, influenced centrist leaders who followed
2020-12-03 08:47:00 Economy U.S. Unemployment Claims Fell Last Week After Recent Rise Weekly initial claims fell by 75,000 after two consecutive increases as economy continues to recover from spring coronavirus shutdowns
2020-12-03 08:45:00 Markets U.S. Stock Futures Wobble as Unemployment Claims Drop S&P 500 futures waver a day after the benchmark inched up to a record close
2020-12-03 08:39:00 Business Chevron Slashes Spending Plans as Coronavirus Hammers Oil Demand The U.S. oil giant followed rival Exxon in cutting its annual spending budget following the outbreak of the pandemic
2020-12-03 08:35:00 Markets CrowdStrike, Splunk, Kroger: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today U.S. stock futures wavered ahead of a full slate of economic data as investors keep an eye on a potential exile for Alibaba and other Chinese stocks
2020-12-03 08:07:00 World Covid-19 Vaccines Are ‘Liquid Gold’ to Organized Crime, Interpol Says Police group says organized crime groups may attempt to fake or steal supplies of new Covid-19 vaccines
2020-12-03 08:00:00 World U.K.’s Covid-19 Vaccine Program to Test Its National Health Service Covid-19 vaccine rollout will aim to inoculate everyone in the country over 50 in just a few months
2020-12-03 07:33:00 Business Sorry, Millennials. Boomers Are In at Gucci. Italian fashion house has toned down its pop-culture-infused designs to court older, wealthier shoppers
2020-12-03 07:32:00 Markets Airline Cards Lose Luster as Coronavirus Persists The cards have for years helped attract big-spending customers, but their perks are less compelling in a global pandemic
2020-12-03 07:28:00 Economy Covid-19 Drags on Europe’s Economies as Asia’s Recovery Continues Europe seems set to end 2020 as the global economy’s weak spot
2020-12-03 07:25:00 U.S. Covid-19 Disbelief Saddles Health-Care Workers With Another Challenge Doctors and nurses worry that community skepticism about coronavirus will hurt efforts to limit it
2020-12-03 07:18:00 Markets Ahead of U.S. Audit Bill, Chinese Companies Are Finding Their Way Home Legislation awaiting president’s signature would ban trading in shares of U.S.-listed foreign companies that don’t allow inspection of papers
2020-12-03 07:09:00 World Hong Kong Media Baron Jimmy Lai Denied Bail in Fraud Case Decision comes a day after three activists, including Joshua Wong, were given prison sentences
2020-12-03 07:00:00 Business 2020 Holiday Sales: How, Where and When Consumers Are Buying Spending patterns this shopping season show in-store purchases down 16% at department stores but up 212% online
2020-12-03 07:00:00 Real Estate E-Commerce Surge Spawns $2 Billion Warehouse Deal Stockbridge, Korean partner acquire 23 properties across U.S. as coronavirus pandemic drives demand for distribution facilities
2020-12-03 07:00:00 Markets Etsy Can Stay Healthy Without Face Masks Platform’s design could help company stay in limelight after Covid-19 pandemic subsides
2020-12-03 06:33:00 Markets Covid-19 Vaccine Contest Isn’t Over Pfizer and Moderna might be first past the finish line with vaccines, but others could still grab market share
2020-12-03 06:08:00 Life & Arts An Unexpected Title Challenge at Tottenham, Starring José Mourinho as Himself A season poised for disaster instead has Spurs at top of the league ahead of the North London Derby against rival Arsenal
2020-12-03 06:02:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Appliance Hygiene Makeover, Options Trading Risks, European Ski Tourism Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2020-12-03 05:30:00 World U.S. Tech Giants Face Tighter Regulation in Europe The EU is completing rules on content, competition that are likely to apply to Google, Facebook and Amazon
2020-12-03 05:30:00 Pro Bankruptcy Friendly’s Owner Hastens Exit From Restaurants With String of Sales Private-equity firm Sun Capital Partners has all but exited investing in restaurant deals following several bankruptcies over the last decade
2020-12-03 05:30:00 Pro Bankruptcy November Bankruptcies Hit 14-Year Low With Steep Drop in Personal Filings While corporate bankruptcy filings ticked up for the month, personal filings declined amid a continued government ban on home evictions
2020-12-03 05:30:00 Markets Many Companies Turn 401(k) Retirement Contributions Back On Employers are reversing course as their businesses rebound and a Covid-19 vaccine is on the horizon
2020-12-03 05:30:00 CFO Journal U.S. Audit Watchdog Could Ramp Up Oversight Under New SEC Leadership Changes at the top of the SEC don’t automatically trigger management turnover at the PCAOB, but the securities regulator can wield influence over its agenda
2020-12-03 05:30:00 Derby’s Take: Powell Says Fed Only Starting to Understand Climate Change Issues
2020-12-03 05:30:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Health-Care Industry Faces Greater Scrutiny Around Payments to Doctors to Promote Products A special fraud alert by Health and Human Services casts skepticism on a longstanding industry practice
2020-12-03 04:35:00 Markets OPEC, Allies Near Agreement for Small Production Increase Boost of no more than 500,000 barrels a day starting next month is a compromise between Saudi Arabia and Russia
2020-12-02 21:51:00 World In China, a #MeToo Case Gets Its Day in Court Crowds cheered a woman accusing a well-known TV host of sexual misconduct as a Beijing court heard her case
2020-12-02 19:18:00 Politics U.S. Bans Cotton Products From Chinese Firm Linked to Alleged Forced Labor Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps is state-owned paramilitary organization
2020-12-02 19:09:00 U.S. FDA Head Defends Covid-19 Vaccine-Approval Process Stephen M. Hahn says the agency’s vetting will meet the ‘gold standard of safety and efficacy’
2020-12-02 18:26:00 U.S. Justices Consider Retroactivity for Decision Requiring Unanimous Juries for Criminal Convictions In Louisiana, Oregon and Puerto Rico, hundreds or thousands of convictions could be overturned
2020-12-02 18:22:00 Opinion Shelton and Fed ‘Independence’ Lamar Alexander misses the political nature of the current Fed.
2020-12-02 18:20:00 Politics Census Delays Would Prevent Trump Immigrant Exclusion Plan House panel says internal schedules indicate bureau is scheduled to deliver apportionment figures after Trump leaves office
2020-12-02 18:20:00 Opinion Nasdaq vs. Warren Buffett The famous investor on what he looks for in a corporate director.
2020-12-02 18:19:00 Opinion Jimmy Lai, China’s Lie In today’s Hong Kong, promoting democracy makes you a criminal.
2020-12-02 18:16:00 Opinion The White House Favors a Bridge to Recovery Federal relief so far has exceeded expectations, and a new round could sustain growth until vaccines arrive.
2020-12-02 18:14:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: Saving the Senate ‘We don’t need a change of rules. The Senate needs a change of behavior.’
2020-12-02 18:13:00 Opinion Pharma Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for the Covid Vaccines The pharmaceutical industry scientists who created the coronavirus vaccines deserve the world’s gratitude.
2020-12-02 18:12:00 Opinion The Election Went Down to Georgia Sens. Perdue and Loeffler are the last line of defense for conservatives.
2020-12-02 18:10:00 Opinion Some Acts of God Are Better Than Others I’ll take a fallen tree over water damage or a fire anytime.
2020-12-02 18:09:00 Books ‘Salazar’ Review: Odd Man Out, and Proud of It Portugal’s strongman didn’t go in for bombastic display or ideological extremes. Franco thought his only fault was his modesty.
2020-12-02 17:58:00 Markets Congress Sets Stage for Exiling Chinese Stocks From U.S. Over Audit Dispute The U.S. has long battled Beijing’s resistance to overseas inspections of Chinese companies’ audits
2020-12-02 17:57:00 Politics Democrats’ Unease Mounts as Biden Considers a CIA Director Michael Morell’s views about interrogation tactics prompt criticism, and a new candidate emerges
2020-12-02 17:55:00 Politics Trump Reasserts Fraud Claims Despite Lack of Evidence, Losses in Court In White House address, the president again said he won the election, even as states move forward certifying Joe Biden’s victory
2020-12-02 17:43:00 CFO Journal Access and Identity Management Firm Okta Names New CFO Mike Kourey is set to take over as finance chief in March, succeeding Bill Losch, who plans to retire
2020-12-02 17:42:00 Politics Can President Trump Pardon Himself and His Family? Legal experts say the president’s pardon powers are wide-ranging, but they do have limits
2020-12-02 16:57:00 World Iranian Arms, Fighters Bolster Maduro Government in Venezuela, U.S. Says Top U.S. military commander for Central and South America cites ‘alarming and concerning’ presence of elite Quds Force
2020-12-02 16:57:00 Opinion What Communists Do The Beijing dictatorship finds another way to crack down on a courageous dissident.
2020-12-02 16:53:00 Media & Marketing Amazon in Talks to Buy Podcast Maker Wondery Venture-backed audio startup is discussing potential sale at valuation exceeding $300 million
2020-12-02 16:48:00 U.S. Which Schools Leave Parents With the Most College Loan Debt? Typical families at dozens of institutions are borrowing almost $100,000 to finance student education, new data show
2020-12-02 16:39:00 Opinion Treating Covid Patients Effectively and Safely Physicians do want to see at least reasonable evidence that drugs help patients with the diseases for which they are prescribed, but it is incorrect to state that “certainty” is always required.
2020-12-02 16:37:00 Opinion On Decriminalizing Small Amounts of Drugs Two grams of cocaine is easily quartered for four classmates to afford a half-gram each, plenty to get amped up with.
2020-12-02 16:36:00 Business UPS Slaps Shipping Limits on Gap, Nike to Manage E-Commerce Surge Delivery giant instructed drivers not to pick up some packages on Cyber Monday as pandemic fueled online shopping
2020-12-02 16:36:00 Markets Dyal Capital in Talks to Combine With Owl Rock Capital Deal, via SPAC, would value combined entity at around $13 billion
2020-12-02 16:33:00 Opinion The Court, Coronavirus and the Constitution The governor of New York and Mayor of New York City continue to engage in a pattern of promulgating unconstitutional orders, then withdrawing them when the Supreme Court agrees to hear the case.
2020-12-02 16:25:00 Politics Disappointed House Democrats to Choose New Leader for Political Arm Sean Patrick Maloney faces Tony Cárdenas to run DCCC, after weak 2020 showing among Latino voters and in competitive suburbs
2020-12-02 16:24:00 Tech Judge in Google Antitrust Case Weighs How to Protect Business Secrets Companies such as AT&T and Amazon don’t want Google to see certain information they provided to Justice Department
2020-12-02 16:14:00 Logistics Report XPO Logistics to Split Company in Two, Spin Off Contract Logistics Business The plan to separate transportation and logistics operations comes after strategic review that also considered selling off parts of the company
2020-12-02 16:12:00 Life & Arts A Jambalaya by Way of Spain This recipe takes only 35 minutes to make. The result is a sumptuous stew with just enough starch and spice.
2020-12-02 16:12:00 World Gunmen in Brazil Lay Siege to Small City in Second Such Raid in Two Days Gang armed with explosives and military-style weapons robs bank, kills one
2020-12-02 16:01:00 Politics Senate Republicans Move Ahead With Defense Bill Despite Trump’s Veto Threat Lawmakers are wary of using annual bill to repeal social-media protections opposed by president
2020-12-02 15:59:00 Life & Arts A Quick and Comforting Chicken-Noodle Stew This recipe takes only 35 minutes to make. The result is a sumptuous stew with just enough starch and spice.
2020-12-02 15:49:00 Economy Pace of U.S. Recovery Picked Up This Fall, Fed’s Beige Book Says Report says growth began to slow in November in parts of Midwest and Northeast as coronavirus cases increased
2020-12-02 15:30:00 Life & Arts With the Ravens and Broncos, the NFL Punts on Competitive Fairness Just a few hours before kickoff, the three-times delayed Ravens-Steelers showdown got the green light—in another game that spotlights the NFL’s acceptance of pandemic-caused competitive inequities
2020-12-02 15:24:00 Politics Senate Moves to Confirm Trump Fed Nominee Waller, But Shelton’s Candidacy Hits Likely Dead End Seating of Democratic Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly makes it unlikely one of Trump’s picks will win confirmation
2020-12-02 15:00:00 Arts What to Watch During the Holidays From ‘Wonder Woman’ to movies filled with A-Listers like Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Chadwick Boseman and Tom Hanks, the holiday movie season is on
2020-12-02 14:42:00 U.S. New PPP Data Show Coronavirus Aid Flowed to Large and Small Firms Alike Judge ordered SBA to release detailed loan information in response to lawsuit by news organizations under Freedom of Information Act
2020-12-02 14:35:00 Politics Coronavirus Stimulus Efforts Show Momentum Top Democrats say $908 billion bipartisan proposal should be basis of negotiations on new relief bill
2020-12-02 14:35:00 Markets ECB Official Defends Private Calls to Investors and Banks After Policy Meetings Philip Lane says private calls to the likes of BlackRock, Goldman aimed to address questions on policy decisions and seek feedback
2020-12-02 14:31:00 World Ethiopia: What We Know About the War in the Tigray Region Conflict in the north of Africa’s second-most-populous nation is spreading across borders, threatening stability in a strategic region
2020-12-02 13:55:00 Life & Arts How to Drive Safely in Winter, According to the Pros Many people are opting for road trips over flights this winter, but icy roads can be risky too. Here, crucial tips from driving experts.
2020-12-02 13:45:00 Opinion Special Counsel John Durham Barr makes it harder for a Biden AG to bury the truth about FBI abuses.
2020-12-02 13:40:00 Opinion What Are the GOP’s Views on Health Care? The party needs to spend the next few years doing more than opposing Medicare for All.
2020-12-02 13:38:00 Opinion Walter Williams, R.I.P. His research was rigorous, and he was one of the few economists who know how to engage with the public.
2020-12-02 13:32:00 Economy Mnuchin Defends Decision to End Fed Lending Programs Congressional Democrats said the Treasury secretary relied on a faulty interpretation of the law that enabled emergency loans
2020-12-02 13:28:00 Politics CDC Shortens Recommended Covid-19 Quarantine Period to Seven to 10 Days Guidance, down from 14 days, reflects new pandemic science and aims to encourage compliance
2020-12-02 12:57:00 Markets Trip.com is Finally Ready for Takeoff Resilient domestic travel in China helped the company survive the worst of 2020. Investors are betting a vaccine will add some fuel to the tank.
2020-12-02 12:52:00 Business Discovery Launches Streaming Service as It Looks Beyond the Cable Bundle Discovery+ will feature shows from channels including Food Network, TLC and Animal Planet
2020-12-02 12:05:00 Markets The Covid-19 Days of Our Lives Daytime TV is attracting more and wealthier viewers because of the coronavirus pandemic
2020-12-02 12:01:00 U.S. Big Companies Urge Biden, Congress to Address Climate Change Amazon, Citigroup, Ford and others support a U.S. return to Paris accord from which Trump withdrew
2020-12-02 12:00:00 Arts How Mariah Carey Built ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ Into a Holiday Juggernaut With a new Apple TV+ special featuring Ariana Grande, Snoop Dogg, Misty Copeland and more, the singer is expanding on the institution she created
2020-12-02 11:57:00 Logistics Report Container Rates From Asia to Europe Climb to 10-Year High The soaring prices on the world’s busiest trade lane add to the strains from a rush in retailer restocking demand
2020-12-02 11:44:00 Politics Georgia Secretary of State Urges Trump to Tone Down Rhetoric Amid Threats Raffensperger says election workers face threats to their safety as president questions results
2020-12-02 11:20:00 Economy Biden to Have a Better Economy in 2021 Than in 2009, But Worse Options President-elect inherits a Fed largely out of ammo and faces a potentially divided Congress
2020-12-02 11:01:00 Business M.B.A. Applicants, Brace for ‘Most Competitive Year Ever’ Business schools are expected to be more selective, as applications surge after programs granted record deferrals earlier in pandemic
2020-12-02 10:53:00 World Netanyahu’s Rivals Raise Specter of Fourth Israeli Election Coalition partners pull their support for the government, potentially leading to another election
2020-12-02 10:37:00 Economy Dallas Fed President Kaplan: Guidance Will Be Needed on Asset Purchases Officials need to ‘start thinking about’ conditions that could lead to a reduction in buying Treasury and mortgage securities
2020-12-02 10:21:00 A-hed Wyatt Earp or Ringo Starr? Facial Recognition Meets Its Match With Old West Photos Amateurs collectors use software to identify famous figures, but experts are skeptical
2020-12-02 10:14:00 Life & Arts The Best Holiday Light Show? Ogling the Skyline from New York’s Observation Decks A comparison of the city’s sky-high observatories, from the renovated Empire State Building to the new Edge in Hudson Yards
2020-12-02 10:06:00 Politics Biden’s Planned Health-Care Law Reboot Could Stall Under GOP-Controlled Senate Proposals include lowering Medicare enrollment age to 60 and instituting a public-option health plan
2020-12-02 10:00:00 Business CVS, Walgreens Gear Up to Deliver Covid-19 Vaccines to Nursing Homes Effort will need to navigate rollout details that may vary by state and potential reluctance by staffers to get the novel shots
2020-12-02 09:28:00 Life & Arts The Pro Cyclist Who Caught Covid Twice Eight months after his first bout with the virus, Colombia’s Fernando Gaviria tested positive again in October, making him one of the world’s first known cases of apparent reinfection.
2020-12-02 09:16:00 Markets Salesforce.com, Slack, Pfizer, BioNTech: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today U.S. futures point to a pause in the stock market rally, while Pfizer and BioNTech jump pre-market on U.K. Covid-19 vaccine approval
2020-12-02 09:00:00 U.S. New York City Police Solve Fewer Crimes in Pandemic Criminal investigations yielded fewer clearances as city saw crime rise
2020-12-02 09:00:00 Life & Arts Audiobooks and Podcasts to Bring You Holiday Cheer How social media would cover Jesus, reviewers’ takes on Hallmark movies and a Hanukkah rom-com
2020-12-02 08:29:00 Markets U.S. Stock Futures Pull Back After S&P 500 Record Major indexes poised for muted declines a day after the Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 closed at all-time highs
2020-12-02 08:00:00 Markets African Borrowers Turn On Cellphones for Covid-19 Financial Lifelines The coronavirus pandemic has supercharged growth of mobile money—and credit—on the continent
2020-12-02 07:51:00 Business Refrigerators, Ovens Get a Hygiene Makeover During Covid-19 Pandemic Manufacturers roll out home appliances featuring sanitizing heaters and ultraviolet light as shut-in consumers seek upgrades
2020-12-02 07:09:00 Markets China’s Covid-19 Comeback Lifts Iron Ore Iron-ore prices have risen to a seven-year high as China’s economic recovery drives demand for steel
2020-12-02 07:03:00 Markets DoorDash Loyalty Program Should Deliver Eaters may be racing to subscribe to DoorDash’s monthly DashPass at just the right time
2020-12-02 07:00:00 National Security Homeland Security Watchdog to Probe Department’s Use of Phone Location Data Inspector general to investigate legality of tracking Americans without a warrant
2020-12-02 07:00:00 Advent Launches Programs to Promote Diversity Among Its Portfolio Leadership Advent International aims to increase racial, gender and sexual orientation diversity across its portfolio companies
2020-12-02 06:43:00 Markets Driverless Cars Are Coming, But Not Yet to Take Over Autonomous taxi projects are starting to take backup drivers out of their vehicles, an important but very early milestone on the road to commercialization
2020-12-02 06:02:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Hospital Stocks Soar, Business Travel Drop, Tranquil Japanese Laundromat Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2020-12-02 06:00:00 Tech DoorDash Is Set to Deliver SoftBank a Big Hit Tech-focused Vision Fund poured money into startup in 2018, helping it expand its reach and outpace rivals’ growth
2020-12-02 05:30:00 World Mexico’s Leftist President Becomes Fiscal Hawk in Midst of Pandemic President López Obrador takes pains to avoid a fiscal crisis, as austerity deepens the economic fallout from Covid-19 and fuels poverty
2020-12-02 05:30:00 Business How a Couple’s Quest to Cure Cancer Led to the West’s First Covid-19 Vaccine Vaccine is one of the fastest developed ever, but it was also 30 years in the making, starting with two Turkish-born scientists in a small German town
2020-12-02 05:30:00 EU Encourages Auto Industry Data-Sharing for Connected Cars Car makers have been concerned about losing control of how customers access entertainment, repair services
2020-12-02 05:30:00 Markets Bets on More Fed Bond-Buying Help Contain Treasury Yields Bond market weighs whether the central bank will purchase more later-dated Treasurys to provide additional stimulus
2020-12-02 04:58:00 Markets A V-Shaped Recovery Doesn’t Mean a V-Shaped Jobs Market Manufacturing is leading the bounce back in economic activity, but the recovery in the services sector will mean everything to the labor market
2020-12-02 03:58:00 Markets JD Health Raises $3.5 Billion From Hong Kong’s Red-Hot Capital Markets More than 120 companies have raised $44.6 billion through IPOs and secondary listings in Hong Kong this year, the highest since 2010
2020-12-02 03:35:00 World Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 Vaccine Wins U.K. Authorization Britain becomes first nation in West to get a coronavirus shot; earliest doses to go to most vulnerable
2020-12-02 02:50:00 World Hong Kong Activist Joshua Wong Jailed for More Than a Year Over 2019 Protest Former student leader among three imprisoned as authorities crack down harder on political opponents
2020-12-02 02:43:00 World North Korean Hackers Are Said to Have Targeted Companies Working on Covid-19 Vaccines At least six pharmaceutical companies in the U.S., the U.K. and South Korea targeted
2020-12-01 22:54:00 Politics Trump Threatens to Veto Defense Bill If Tech Liability Provision Stands President is demanding termination of the broad legal immunity that social-media companies enjoy
2020-12-01 21:39:00 U.S. California Boat Captain Indicted in Fire That Killed 34 Jerry Boylan indicted on federal manslaughter charges for one of the deadliest maritime disasters in recent U.S. history
2020-12-01 21:26:00 Politics Federal Prosecutors Investigated Alleged Bribery-for-Pardon Scheme Justice Department was pursuing an inquiry as recently as this summer, according to court filing
2020-12-01 21:08:00 CFO Journal Salesforce CFO Mark Hawkins Plans to Hand Over Reins Company names Chief Legal Officer Amy Weaver as his successor
2020-12-01 21:07:00 Economy SBA Releases Detailed Information on More Small Business Borrowers Under Pandemic Relief Effort Judge ordered release of detailed PPP data in response to lawsuit by news organizations under Freedom of Information Act
2020-12-01 20:53:00 Tech Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Leave Silicon Valley for Texas Tech giant, which traces its roots to the origins of Silicon Valley, is latest company to move away from area long considered hub of innovation
2020-12-01 20:52:00 Politics Georgia Official Urges Trump to Condemn Threats Against Election Workers Gabriel Sterling of the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office said a worker received death threats
2020-12-01 20:13:00 U.S. Federal Judge Strikes Down Trump’s H-1B Visa Rules on Highly Skilled Foreign Workers Chamber of Commerce and others challenged administration’s visa rules issued in October
2020-12-01 20:10:00 U.S. JFK Airport’s Busiest Terminal Seen Recovering From Covid-19 Slowly Operator of Terminal 4 says pandemic forces it to scale back or delay $3.8 billion refurbishment and expansion
2020-12-01 20:08:00 Politics CDC Panel Recommends Giving First Covid-19 Vaccines to Health Workers, Nursing Homes A decision could come Wednesday, as drug makers await word in coming weeks of emergency-use authorization of two vaccines
2020-12-01 19:27:00 CFO Journal Howard Hughes Turns to Finance Chief to Fill CEO Position About 7% of chief executives at S&P 500 and Fortune 500 companies come directly from the CFO post, says the
2020-12-01 19:16:00 Markets Nasdaq CEO Pushes Corporate Boards to Diversify Adena Friedman discusses the exchange operator’s diversity plan with The Wall Street Journal.
2020-12-01 19:06:00 Opinion ‘Just a Start’ Biden hints at the taxpayer fleecing to come.
2020-12-01 18:53:00 Politics China Panel Calls for More Federal Trade Commission Authority in Approving Mergers Involving Foreign Money The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission proposes the FTC conduct a deeper study of a potential deal
2020-12-01 18:41:00 Opinion How Joe Biden Can ‘Heal the Nation’ If the president-elect wants to make good on his campaign pledge, students have some advice.
2020-12-01 18:40:00 Opinion Trump’s Fraud Claims Hit a Barr The AG says the feds have seen no evidence that would overturn Joe Biden's victory.
2020-12-01 18:39:00 Markets Salesforce Plus Slack Doesn’t Equal Microsoft Deal-weary Salesforce investors may need to brace for more acquisitions
2020-12-01 18:39:00 Opinion The Woke Nasdaq The exchange decides it is in the gender and racial quota business.
2020-12-01 18:38:00 Opinion Whole Foods Capitalism Believe it or not, a CEO steps up to defend free markets.
2020-12-01 18:37:00 Opinion Ajit Pai Bids Adieu Thank the departing FCC chairman for your fast internet in the pandemic.
2020-12-01 18:31:00 Life & Arts U.S. Soccer, Women’s Team Agree to Settle Portion of Lawsuit Related to Working Conditions The agreement clears the way for the players to appeal a pay-discrimination claim that was rejected by a federal judge in May
2020-12-01 18:16:00 Pro VC New Money SoftBank Makes Another Bet on Freight Shipping Technology Volvo also joins the financing as sector has remained resilient during pandemic
2020-12-01 18:11:00 Politics CDC Plans to Recommend Shorter Quarantine for People Exposed to Covid-19 Agency Chief Robert Redfield to counsel seven- to 10-day isolation in place of 14-day period now recommended, administration official says
2020-12-01 18:03:00 Opinion We Decide How Much Covid The U.S. promoted the illusion of control instead of the wisdom of risk management.
2020-12-01 18:01:00 Opinion Liberty’s Last Line of Defense State attorneys general best serve when they eschew partisanship.
2020-12-01 17:59:00 Books ‘Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy’ Review: A Big-Thinking Executive The U.S. Constitution, a pair of political scientists contend, is not a document to be revered but an obstacle to good governance.
2020-12-01 17:58:00 Opinion The Myth of ‘War Weary’ Americans Our poll finds the public ambivalent about the war in Afghanistan, not in a hurry for withdrawal.
2020-12-01 17:57:00 Opinion How to Understand Trump’s Democrats A new book examines the phenomenon that still has political pros and the press scratching their heads.
2020-12-01 17:55:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: Russians ‘Bloomberg and Sheldon Adelson call your political operatives! You’ve been ripped off.’
2020-12-01 17:07:00 Opinion BLM and Inauthenticity in Racial Relations Acknowledging and dismantling systemic racism isn’t a vestige of “the old victim-focused racial order,” but an essential step toward reaching a new one.
2020-12-01 17:06:00 Opinion Shame May Make Misbehaving Pols Repent Perhaps if we all complained more often and vociferously, the political elite would at least make and attempt to be less hypocritical.
2020-12-01 17:05:00 Opinion Trump’s Abraham Accords Change Palestinians’ Plans Normalization of relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan has removed the Palestinians from the nexus of Israeli-Arab relations.
2020-12-01 16:56:00 U.S. Former Judge Seeks to Shorten Mandatory Prison Terms He Once Imposed John Gleeson, now in private practice, is in a legal fight to secure early release for what could be thousands of federal inmates serving decadeslong sentences
2020-12-01 16:55:00 U.S. Supreme Court Voices Doubts Over Suit Alleging Nestle, Cargill Liable for Child Slavery Ivory Coast plantations supply food makers with cocoa
2020-12-01 16:55:00 World Nuclear Scientist’s Killing Prompts Iranian Lawmakers to Act Proposal would push government to increase uranium enrichment, block U.N. inspectors from certain sites
2020-12-01 16:52:00 Politics Barr Appoints Durham Special Counsel for Investigation Into Origins of Russia Probe Decision ensures prosecutor will keep investigating FBI inquiry into 2016 Trump campaign during the Biden administration
2020-12-01 16:51:00 Politics Joe Biden Introduces Team He Says Will Help Economy Recover After Coronavirus President-elect urges Congress to pass a robust relief package and says more stimulus efforts will be needed later
2020-12-01 16:51:00 Business Shoppers Spent Less Over Black Friday Weekend National Retail Federation says early promotions and fewer visits to stores offset online gains
2020-12-01 16:44:00 Politics Supreme Court Justices Question IRS Shield in Tax-Shelter Case Case involves requirement that taxpayers and advisers disclose certain questionable transactions when filing returns
2020-12-01 16:25:00 Tech Salesforce Confirms Deal to Buy Slack for $27.7 Billion Transaction is Salesforce’s largest ever acquisition and forms one of the biggest players in the business-software market
2020-12-01 16:09:00 Music Review ‘Cuttin’ Grass Vol. 1 (The Butcher Shoppe Sessions)’ by Sturgill Simpson and ‘Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs’ by Gillian Welch Reviews: Roots-Music Retrospection Two singer-songwriters find rich rewards in revisiting their catalogs.
2020-12-01 16:04:00 New York Fed Staffer Warns of Possible Downward Pressure on Money Market Rates The Federal Reserve has the ability to keep borrowing costs in line, the staffer adds
2020-12-01 16:04:00 Markets U.S. Treasury Yields Climb on Renewed Coronavirus Stimulus Talks Yield on 10-year note notches its highest close since Nov. 10
2020-12-01 15:57:00 Television Review ‘Baby God’ Review: Horrid History, Hidden in a Family Tree An HBO documentary follows the story—and a few of the progeny—of a fertility doctor who used his own sperm to impregnate women without their knowledge or consent.
2020-12-01 15:57:00 Politics Barr Says No Evidence Voter Fraud Changed Election Outcome The attorney general’s comments contradict President Trump, who pressed forward with legal challenges
2020-12-01 15:35:00 Economy Partisan Fight Over Fed Lending Programs Escalates The Fed and Treasury disagreed publicly over a decision not to renew a suite of emergency lending facilities
2020-12-01 15:18:00 Real Estate How to Avoid the 5 Worst Holiday-Decorating Mistakes From poorly scaled Christmas trees to a slavish devotion to green and red, architects and interior designers share the goofs they see most often—and what to do instead
2020-12-01 15:06:00 World Global Stock-Market Fever Drives Even Reluctant Brazilians to Invest Amid pandemic, more than a million investors, many young and spurred by social-media stars, have entered Brazil’s equities market
2020-12-01 15:02:00 Television Review ‘Trafficked With Mariana van Zeller’ Review: Uncovering the Underworld National Geographic’s documentary series delves into black markets around the globe, from Peruvian counterfeiting to Jamaican phone scams.
2020-12-01 14:57:00 CFO Journal Wary of New Lockdowns, CFOs Stand Ready With Covid Contingency Plans Finance chiefs say they are better prepared to navigate inventory challenges and cost cuts than they were last spring
2020-12-01 14:52:00 Opinion A Christmas Compromise on Covid Relief? Americans need help only government can provide to weather the next few months.
2020-12-01 14:50:00 Opinion An Unfunny Thing Happened on the Way to 2021 Polarization, political correctness and Covid-19 have produced a hostile environment for humor.
2020-12-01 14:44:00 Markets BlackRock Emerges as Wall Street Player in Biden Administration Two executives who have worked at the money manager are set to take roles at Treasury and the National Economic Council
2020-12-01 14:00:00 CIO Journal Amazon Is Beefing Up Its Cloud Call-Center Tools as More Customer-Support Staff Work from Home More than 5,000 contact centers were set up on Amazon Connect during March and April
2020-12-01 13:57:00 World South Korea Changes Law to Allow K-Pop’s BTS to Defer Military Service for Two Years Seoul relaxed terms of military draft as group’s global popularity surges, but debates over conscription continue elsewhere in Asia
2020-12-01 13:45:00 World Iran’s Nuclear Scientist: How Will the Killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh Affect Tehran’s Nuclear Program? The killing was a strike against Iran’s nuclear capabilities and risks fueling hostilities in the Middle East
2020-12-01 13:42:00 Markets Airbnb Sets IPO Terms Sending Valuation as High as $35 Billion San Francisco home-rental company to sell 50 million shares at $44 to $50 apiece
2020-12-01 13:33:00 Markets OPEC+’s Lose-Lose Equation Oil producers face risks no matter which route they choose to take on output
2020-12-01 13:04:00 Life & Arts Cricket Style Will Help You Break Your Sweatpants Habit American men may not know the rules of the sport, but that doesn’t mean they can’t borrow its polished look, as Tyler, the Creator, and Harry Styles recently did
2020-12-01 12:59:00 Markets Manufacturing Spurt Has Room to Run Low inventory levels suggest manufacturers can keep increasing output
2020-12-01 12:47:00 World Canada’s Covid-19 Response Is to Spend Heavily and Ignore the Deficit—for Now Canada’s fiscal position has deteriorated the quickest among its G-20 peers because of its pandemic stimulus, but officials say supporting the economy comes first
2020-12-01 12:40:00 U.S. New York City Urges At-Risk Residents to Stay Home to Avoid Covid-19 Advice comes as hospitalizations in city reach level not seen since early June
2020-12-01 12:03:00 World NATO Should Expand Its Focus to Include China, Report Says Alliance to update strategy document that predates Russia’s seizure of Crimea and China’s military buildup
2020-12-01 12:02:00 World China Lands a Probe on the Moon as It Pursues Space Ambitions Mission aims to bring back lunar samples, and Beijing plans manned base on moon in coming years
2020-12-01 12:00:00 Tech Amazon Makes Mac Commitment, Opening Door to Apple Developers Amazon’s cloud-computing arm is installing Macs, allowing software for Apple devices to be created and tested remotely
2020-12-01 11:47:00 World Gang of Gunmen Sow Mayhem in Brazil Bank Robbery Group takes hostages and robs bank, leaves behind unexploded bombs and streets littered with cash
2020-12-01 11:16:00 Economy Biden Economics Team’s Views, in Their Own Words President-elect’s picks for top economic-policy jobs have focused on inequality, education and climate
2020-12-01 10:58:00 World Egypt Rights Advocates Appear in Court Amid Global Outcry Arrests have set up a possible clash with the incoming Biden administration
2020-12-01 10:47:00 Markets China and Korea Clash Over Pandas and Pickled Vegetables Internet users get heated over symbols of national pride for the two nations
2020-12-01 10:00:00 Real Estate Jason Butler Harner: A Daredevil-Turned-Drama Club President The ‘Ozark’ and ‘Next’ actor had to overcome self-consciousness to become a performer
2020-12-01 09:24:00 Finance Top ECB Official Privately Called Investors, Banks After Key Policy Decisions Calls from Chief Economist Philip Lane to the likes of Goldman, JPMorgan, BlackRock began in March when President Christine Lagarde flummoxed traders
2020-12-01 09:01:00 Life & Arts Sports Keep Playing Through the Covid Surge. It’s Getting Ugly. The worst stretch of the pandemic is coming. Sports leagues are trying to plow ahead as outbreaks and postponements are making it harder to proceed.
2020-12-01 09:00:00 Tech Tech Beats Toys for Holidays Despite Covid Screen Fatigue Parents and children are at odds, as wish lists fill with game and app requests, not tangible toys
2020-12-01 09:00:00 Media & Marketing Google, Facebook and Amazon Gain as Coronavirus Reshapes Ad Spending Digital ads to account for more than half of year’s U.S. advertising expenditures for first time
2020-12-01 08:48:00 Life & Arts The Covid Pandemic Could Cut Business Travel by 36%—Permanently Between 19% and 36% of all business trips could disappear, given efficiencies developed during the lockdown, our Middle Seat columnist and airline experts estimate
2020-12-01 08:30:00 Business Sephora to Set Up Shop Inside Kohl’s Beauty retailer set to wind down partnership with J.C. Penney and plans to install 850 shops at Kohl’s locations
2020-12-01 08:27:00 Business Nasdaq Proposes Board-Diversity Rule for Listed Companies Exchange operator seeks to require companies to have at least one female board member, plus one from an underrepresented minority
2020-12-01 08:23:00 World After Culling Millions of Mink to Combat Covid-19, Denmark Weighs Digging Them Up Again Local residents and opposition lawmakers worry that decomposing bodies could pollute water supplies
2020-12-01 08:11:00 Markets U.S. Stock Futures Point to Fresh Records for Major Indexes The S&P 500 is on track to erase Monday’s muted losses and extend the November rally
2020-12-01 08:00:00 Real Estate Retailers Seize on Pandemic Fallout to Become Property Owners Rental opportunities for businesses also open up amid turmoil in commercial real estate
2020-12-01 08:00:00 Real Estate Developer Aims to Raise $1 Billion for Investing in Minority Communities Martin Muoto’s new Black Impact Fund to focus on opportunity zones and nearby areas
2020-12-01 08:00:00 Business Pfizer, Moderna Request Covid-19 Vaccine Authorization in Europe EU agency says its officials will work through Christmas to review data from trials
2020-12-01 07:54:00 Politics Trump Is Wild Card in Coronavirus, Spending Talks Congress faces looming deadlines in lame-duck session
2020-12-01 07:54:00 Markets Bank Mergers Are No Panacea As domestic deals become a popular strategy for dealing with Europe’s low banking returns, the resignation of Unicredit’s CEO highlights the risks
2020-12-01 07:11:00 Markets Credit Suisse Taps Lloyds Boss as Next Chairman António Horta-Osório nominated to replace Urs Rohner who steps down in April
2020-12-01 07:00:00 Markets Restaurant Stocks Have Less Under the Tree This Year Weak gift card sales could be an obstacle to full recovery for chains like Cheesecake Factory and Outback Steakhouse
2020-12-01 07:00:00 Markets These Tech Startups Want to Sell You Their Life Insurance Insuretech companies Bestow and Dayforward say they will become direct-to-customer life insurance carriers
2020-12-01 06:32:00 Economy Global Economy Faces Hard Winter Despite Covid-19 Vaccine Hopes Pandemic is seen speeding China’s ascent as an economic power, with recent case surges holding back recovery in Europe, U.S.
2020-12-01 06:30:00 CMO Today Reddit Claims 52 Million Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms The disclosure comes as the tech company pursues new advertisers
2020-12-01 06:02:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Appetite for Debt, Pandemic Football, At-Home Ergonomics Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2020-12-01 05:30:00 Real Estate A New Setback for Big Cities as Return to the Office Fades The low level of employees back at their workplaces is intensifying pain for cities geared toward office life
2020-12-01 05:30:00 Economy Over Fed Objections, Lending Programs Will Expire. Here’s What Happens Next. Decision not to renew programs funded by Congress could lead to a partisan political fight during the Biden administration
2020-12-01 05:30:00 Markets Hospital Stocks Are Heading Higher. So Are Covid-19 Cases. Shares of hospital operators soared in November, thanks to postelection optimism and expectations they can better weather the recent coronavirus surge
2020-12-01 05:11:00 Finance U.K. Court Freezes Up to $5 Billion Tied to Alleged Kazakhstan Bank Theft The order, related to a long-running legal saga, goes after stakes in fancy hotels, Burger King restaurants and bank accounts in half a dozen countries
2020-11-30 20:37:00 Politics Trump Coronavirus Adviser Scott Atlas, Who Called for Ending Lockdowns, Resigns Atlas joined the White House team in August as Trump sparred with other health advisers
2020-11-30 20:19:00 Experience Report Five Customer-Service Lessons From the Late Tony Hsieh The former chief executive of Zappos, the online shoe retailer, had a unique approach toward customers
2020-11-30 19:38:00 Markets Zoom Fatigue Sets In Early Another blowout earnings report and forecast can’t keep up pandemic’s hottest stock
2020-11-30 19:01:00 Markets Tesla to Enter S&P 500 at Full Weight in December Weaving Tesla into the S&P 500 means shifting weightings of many other stocks to include the electric-vehicle maker
2020-11-30 18:54:00 Politics Biden’s Economic Team Draws on Deep Experience With Focus on Jobs, Wages, Inequality Many are from ranks of Obama and Clinton Administrations, Biden’s presidential campaign
2020-11-30 18:43:00 U.S. Former Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s Death Is Ruled Accident by Medical Examiner Tech entrepreneur died from complications of smoke inhalation, office says
2020-11-30 18:19:00 Pro PE Deals Vista Equity Partners Backs Business Software Company Gainsight The deal values the customer-relationship software maker at $1.1 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter
2020-11-30 18:18:00 Opinion Return of the Obama Economists Biden’s policy advisers were in charge during the secular stagnation years.
2020-11-30 18:16:00 Opinion Trump’s Fair Banking Rule Pushing back against the left’s red-lining of unpopular industries.
2020-11-30 18:15:00 Opinion De Blasio Gets Schooled on Reopening He reopens some schools as public pressure beats the teachers union.
2020-11-30 18:14:00 CIO Journal Northwestern Mutual Targets Resources to Black Tech Founders Insurer launched accelerator and $20 million pool exclusively for Black entrepreneurs
2020-11-30 18:13:00 Opinion China’s Wolf Warriors Try Wine Coercion New tariffs against Australia send a menacing message.
2020-11-30 18:01:00 Life & Arts Baltimore Ravens’ Outbreak Forces Third Postponement The Ravens were supposed to play the Pittsburgh Steelers on Thanksgiving but the game is now scheduled for Wednesday in a disruption that lays bare the turbulence the NFL will face
2020-11-30 17:47:00 Opinion Trump’s March to Atlanta No one has a bigger stake in keeping the Senate Republican than the president.
2020-11-30 17:45:00 Business Exxon Slashes Spending, Writes Down Assets Battered by three straight quarterly losses, oil giant pulls back from CEO Darren Woods’s aggressive plan to increase production by 2025
2020-11-30 17:45:00 Opinion Germany Won’t Take Portugal’s EU Split Prime Minister Costa veils his plan with pretty words about European values.
2020-11-30 17:44:00 Opinion Ancient History Isn’t Colonialism Students at Brown nonsensically accuse Roman emperors of ‘white supremacy.’
2020-11-30 17:44:00 Opinion Biden’s Blind Spot His economic advisers share a belief in the power of federal regulation and spending.
2020-11-30 17:43:00 Books ‘South to Freedom’ Review: México Libre The little-told story of runaway slaves in Mexico, and of relations between the U.S. and its southern neighbor in the antebellum period.
2020-11-30 17:41:00 Opinion How Biden Can Break the Senate Stonewall Start with issues that cross party lines. For some ideas, look to November’s state ballot measures.
2020-11-30 17:40:00 Markets S&P Upgrades Itself to Data Juggernaut With IHS Markit Deal Merger gives S&P boost in indexing, commodities and fixed-income data
2020-11-30 17:38:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: School’s Out ‘How to help kids understand why school inexplicably opens and closes.’
2020-11-30 17:21:00 Markets The Market Expects That Everything Will Be Awesome Optimism is high, but investing also involves comparing the future with what’s priced in
2020-11-30 17:19:00 Opinion Biden Brings Traditional Values to Diplomacy America heads back to the future with a Biden-Harris reboot of Obama-Biden international agreements and alliances.
2020-11-30 17:17:00 Opinion Remediating Student Debt’s Failing Grades The expected taxpayer losses on student-loan debt highlight the disastrous consequence of shielding the higher-education industry from the loan losses incurred for its services.
2020-11-30 17:15:00 Opinion Assassinations and Iran’s Nuclear Program The assassination of an official of a U.N. member state in its territory is a dangerous game.
2020-11-30 16:58:00 Music Review ‘Plastic Hearts’ by Miley Cyrus Review: Back to the Future The star’s new album mines the sounds of the ’80s and tracks by artists like Billy Idol to craft a contemporary pop course in music history.
2020-11-30 16:56:00 CFO Journal Bombardier Hires New CFO as It Works to Transform Its Business The Canadian plane and train maker is shedding assets and shrinking its operations
2020-11-30 16:54:00 World Cuban Leadership Confronts a Rare Dissident Movement Musicians, writers, painters and Black activists peacefully challenge Communist government’s grip on expression
2020-11-30 16:48:00 Tech Zoom’s Pandemic-Fueled Boom Continues Videoconferencing company lifted its outlook for a third time as it reported record sales
2020-11-30 16:44:00 Economy Powell Says Fed Actions Unlocked $2 Trillion to Support Economy Fed chief, Treasury secretary are set to testify Tuesday at congressional hearing
2020-11-30 16:40:00 Markets Lloyds Bank Names HSBC’s Nunn as CEO
2020-11-30 16:37:00 U.S. Pandemic Cuts Foot Traffic in New York’s Top Business Districts Once-thriving Flatiron, Union Square neighborhoods see storefront vacancies surge from 9% to 36%; ‘It’s definitely a shadow of its normal self’
2020-11-30 16:35:00 Economy Biden Economics Team’s Views, in Their Own Words President-elect’s picks for top economic-policy jobs have focused on inequality, education and climate
2020-11-30 16:35:00 Markets OPEC Defers Decision on Extending Output Curbs Cartel to meet Thursday with Russia and its other oil producers to agree on a plan
2020-11-30 16:33:00 Politics OMB Pick Neera Tanden Draws GOP Fire Head of the Center for American Progress has been a regular critic of Republicans on Twitter
2020-11-30 16:20:00 Politics Supreme Court Weighs Breadth of Computer Hacking Law Officer allegedly used law-enforcement database for personal purposes in a case that has drawn widespread attention
2020-11-30 16:17:00 Risk & Compliance Journal SBM Offshore Faces Swiss Probe Over Legacy Bribery Allegations Notice by Swiss prosecutors comes as Dutch oil-services company completes three-year agreement with U.S. Justice Department
2020-11-30 16:17:00 Politics Labor Department Published Flawed Estimates of Weekly Jobless Claims, Watchdog Says Government Accountability Office also says jobless-benefits program underpaid millions amid the pandemic
2020-11-30 15:57:00 World Iran Nuclear Scientist Was Killed With ‘New Method,’ Tehran Says Security official blames Israel, which he said had sought to kill Mohsen Fakhrizadeh for 20 years
2020-11-30 15:48:00 World U.S. Blacklists Chinese Defense Firm for Sales to Venezuela Trump administration says China National Electronics Import & Export Corp. sold goods that aided repression by Maduro regime
2020-11-30 15:41:00 Politics Arizona Certifies Narrow Victory for Biden Wisconsin also expected to finalize results, cementing president-elect’s wins in battleground states that decided the race
2020-11-30 15:37:00 Markets UniCredit CEO Jean Pierre Mustier to Leave Bank in April Mustier’s decision to depart at the end of his mandate follows disagreements with the board over the lender’s strategy
2020-11-30 15:32:00 Politics Navy Will Decommission Ship Damaged in Five-Day Blaze USS Bonhomme Richard, outfitted to carry and launch F-35 fighter jets, will be scrapped, Navy says
2020-11-30 15:22:00 Politics Trump Expected to Name New Indo-Pacific Command Head Shift in military’s Asia command tracks schedule for an expected change in leadership
2020-11-30 15:14:00 Politics FCC Chairman Pai to Step Down, Giving Biden Clearer Path to Reshape Agenda January departure allows new administration to choose next head of telecommunications regulator
2020-11-30 15:03:00 World China Complains of U.S. Harassment of Chinese Airline and Ship Crews Beijing says it lodged complaints about questioning of arriving workers about Communist Party membership
2020-11-30 14:40:00 Pro Bankruptcy NPC’s Canceled Auctions Pave Way for Sale Of Wendy’s, Pizza Hut Chains to Flynn Wendy’s is in talks to drop its opposition to a sale to Flynn, the largest restaurant franchisee in the U.S.
2020-11-30 14:22:00 Markets Nikola Teaches GM a Lesson Tesla’s disruption story may be the exception rather than the rule in the auto industry’s shift to electric vehicles
2020-11-30 14:15:00 Music Review ‘Dimensional Stardust’ by Rob Mazurek Review: Futuristic Big-Band Sounds The cornetist and composer leads his Exploding Star Orchestra on an album that deftly incorporates electronics into its rich, contrapuntal arrangements.
2020-11-30 14:15:00 Markets DoorDash Sets IPO Terms Pushing Valuation as High as $32 Billion San Francisco food-delivery company to sell 33 million shares at $75 to $85 each
2020-11-30 14:05:00 Politics Georgia Secretary of State Investigates Voting Groups But Denies Widespread Fraud Raffensperger says machine recount on track to be completed Wednesday
2020-11-30 13:43:00 Politics Government’s Lawyer Urges Justices to Delay Ruling on Census Plan President Trump is seeking to exclude illegal immigrants from count used to apportion congressional seats
2020-11-30 13:42:00 World Thailand Uses Controversial Lèse-Majesté Law Against Pro-Democracy Protesters At least five activists are accused of defaming the monarchy, an offense punishable with up to 15 years in prison
2020-11-30 13:39:00 Life & Arts For Covid Long-Haulers, a Little-Known Diagnosis Offers Possible Treatments—and New Challenges A disorder called POTS offers some treatment paths, but they are often arduous.
2020-11-30 13:36:00 Markets Bitcoin Price Hits All-Time High Above $19,000, Topping 2017 Record Digital currency’s rise is driven by wave of new investors seeking big gains
2020-11-30 12:53:00 Tech Facebook to Buy Kustomer, Startup Valued at $1 Billion Target company, which specializes in customer-service platforms and chatbots, fits Facebook’s move into ‘social commerce’
2020-11-30 12:47:00 Markets A Fine Payoff for Reading the Ingredients Companies are being hit with class-action lawsuits by people who claim not to have read the packaging
2020-11-30 12:39:00 Politics Joe Biden Chooses Brian Deese as Top Economic Adviser Former Obama adviser to direct National Economic Council; his post doesn’t require Senate confirmation
2020-11-30 12:07:00 Economy U.S. Banks Urged to Stop Using Libor on New Loans by End of 2021 Regulators support plan to end benchmark in June 2023, allowing most existing transactions to mature
2020-11-30 12:01:00 World Measures of Chinese Economic Activity Signal Widening Recovery Manufacturing and nonmanufacturing reach highest levels in three and eight years, respectively
2020-11-30 11:57:00 Opinion Media Treat Trump’s Team Like Dogs, Biden’s Like Puppies The largely celebratory coverage unwittingly emphasizes the triumph of the press’s own class.
2020-11-30 11:56:00 Opinion Fake Claims About Dominion Voting Systems Do Real Damage Our machines have no secret ‘vote flipping’ algorithm. We have no ties to dictator Hugo Chávez.
2020-11-30 11:23:00 Life & Arts How Harry Styles Became 2020’s Biggest Style Icon A recent Vogue photoshoot showing the singer in a full-length frock nearly broke the internet—underscoring the almost unprecedented influence he has over young men’s fashion decisions
2020-11-30 11:09:00 Life & Arts Meet the Mets: The Most Interesting Team in Baseball While baseball retrenches in the wake of the pandemic, new Mets owner Steve Cohen appears ready to act aggressively
2020-11-30 10:32:00 Politics Here’s Where Biden Will Face Early Foreign-Policy Decisions President-elect must weigh whether to undo some of Trump’s executive actions—on Iran, Afghanistan and climate change, among others
2020-11-30 09:14:00 Life & Arts Hi, It’s the Denver Broncos. Can You Play Quarterback Tomorrow? A coronavirus scramble thrusts an unknown into a starring role after a team loses four QBs. Now what happens with the Ravens and the Steelers game?
2020-11-30 09:08:00 Markets Nikola, IHS Markit, Moderna: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today U.S. stock futures are down Monday, but the Dow is set to round out its best month since 1987
2020-11-30 08:55:00 National Security Lebanon’s Central Bank Fuels Corruption, Extremism Concerns U.S. and allies seek a forensic audit to check for money laundering, corruption and ties to Hezbollah
2020-11-30 08:38:00 Business GM, Nikola Agree to Scaled-Down Supply Agreement Auto maker will no longer take equity stake in electric-truck startup, as previously planned
2020-11-30 08:16:00 Politics Facebook, Google to Face New Antitrust Suits in U.S. Federal and state authorities, probing whether the tech giants abused their power in the internet economy, are preparing as many as four cases
2020-11-30 08:15:00 World In Europe’s Nursing Homes, a Soaring Covid-19 Death Toll and the Pain of Isolation Many facilities on the continent resist isolating residents, saying prolonged solitude is also harmful
2020-11-30 08:13:00 Life & Arts What Are the Health Risks of Disinfectants? Disinfecting cleaners used against Covid-19 generally are safe, doctors and medical researchers say, but here’s what you need to know about potential health hazards.
2020-11-30 08:05:00 Markets Dow on Track to Finish Best Month in Over Three Decades Stocks have soared in November, briefly pushing the blue-chips index over 30000 for the first time in its history
2020-11-30 07:51:00 Business How NIO, a Chinese EV Startup, Rose, Fell and Rose Again After nearing bankruptcy, NIO has recently surged to become the world’s fourth most valuable auto maker, surpassing GM and Daimler
2020-11-30 07:19:00 World Chinese ‘Wolf Warrior’ Diplomat Enrages Australia With Twitter Post Australian prime minister demands apology for official’s use of a photo, which Australia says is doctored, showing an Australian soldier apparently threatening an Afghan child
2020-11-30 07:05:00 Markets Emissions Clampdown Sends Rhodium Prices on Explosive Rally Already the most expensive precious metal and one of the rarest elements on Earth, rhodium prices have more than doubled in 2020
2020-11-30 07:00:00 Business Moderna to Ask Health Regulators to Authorize Its Covid-19 Vaccine Timing could make shot the second for U.S. use by year-end, alongside Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine
2020-11-30 07:00:00 Markets Extended Stay America Is a Pandemic Sleeper Hit The lodging chain has outperformed peers and should continue to do well despite a subdued holiday season
2020-11-30 06:02:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Investors Seek New Election Data, Grads Look for Work, Home Office Gifts Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2020-11-30 05:51:00 World Tokyo Stock Exchange’s CEO Resigns Over Daylong Shutdown Regulator says TSE’s ‘never stop’ slogan left it unprepared to restart when glitches happened
2020-11-30 05:47:00 Markets China’s Sour Grapes Spell Trouble for Australian Wine Australian wine is the latest commodity in Beijing’s crosshairs, leaving companies like Treasury Wines with few palatable options
2020-11-30 05:30:00 CFO Journal Weight-Loss Firm Noom Names First CFO Michael Noonan joined the company earlier this month from Booking Holdings
2020-11-30 05:30:00 Companies Urged to Adjust Hiring Requirements for Cyber Jobs Researchers say cyber talent is available but often not considered
2020-11-30 05:30:00 Business Troubles in the Oil Patch: Low Prices to Lost Jobs Despite a recent oil rally, energy companies are riding out a historic downturn. Collectively, they have lost more market value, on a percentage basis, than any other major sector this year.
2020-11-30 05:30:00 Markets The Stock Market’s Rally Is Finally Widening More companies in the S&P 500 are rising as technology stocks share the stage
2020-11-30 05:30:00 Markets The World’s Appetite for Debt is Smashing Records Companies and governments have issued $9.7 trillion of debt this year
2020-11-30 05:27:00 Finance Credit Suisse Spied on More Employees Than Previously Disclosed As Swiss bank moves to recover from spying scandal, two prior instances of physical surveillance emerge
2020-11-30 04:53:00 Markets Driver Data Is a Help and a Hazard for Auto Insurers Auto insurers will need to partner with digitally savvy startups as the explosive growth of vehicle data empowers new competitors
2020-11-30 03:47:00 Markets Hong Kong’s Bankless Leader Reveals the Long Arm of the U.S. Treasury International lenders fear secondary sanctions; here’s why
2020-11-29 22:38:00 Deals S&P Global Nears Deal to Buy IHS Markit for About $44 Billion Landmark deal would combine two of the largest providers of data to Wall Street
2020-11-29 21:59:00 Politics Joe Biden Fills Out His Economic Team President-elect’s picks include Neera Tanden to head the Office of Management and Budget and Cecilia Rouse to chair the Council of Economic Advisers
2020-11-29 20:28:00 Politics Biden Injures Ankle Over Thanksgiving Weekend Hairline fractures will require the president-elect to wear a walking boot for several weeks
2020-11-29 20:00:00 Life & Arts Your Home-Office Ergonomics Are Still a Mess—Do Something About It With the pandemic not slowing down and many workplaces shut down for winter, your long-term health may depend on getting your desk set up well
2020-11-29 19:08:00 Markets Investors Pile Into Risky ETFs During Wild Market Rally A hunt for bigger returns has led investors to plow money into funds offering a chance to double or triple daily returns but at sizable risk
2020-11-29 18:48:00 Business Airbnb, DoorDash Aim for Higher-Than-Expected Valuations Ahead of Debuts Airbnb plans to target a range of around $30 billion to $33 billion, while DoorDash will seek a valuation of around $25 billion to $28 billion
2020-11-29 18:37:00 Business Thanksgiving Draws Travel to a Pandemic Peak Airport screenings were elevated this weekend, and some chose to drive rather than fly
2020-11-29 17:37:00 World Iran’s Nuclear Efforts Pose Growing Threat to Its Foes Despite Setbacks Friday’s killing sets back country’s nuclear program, but U.S. and its allies still face major challenges in trying to constrain Tehran’s nuclear ambitions
2020-11-29 17:25:00 World Former Zappos Chief Tony Hsieh Exalted Customer Service, Set High Bar for Rivals Entrepreneur nurtured online shoe seller, was bestselling author and management guru
2020-11-29 17:16:00 Politics Trump Calls Justice, FBI ‘Missing in Action’ on Election Allegations Federal officials and state election authorities agree they have seen no evidence of tampering with voting systems
2020-11-29 17:10:00 Opinion Canceling Student Debt Would Be a ‘Brahmin Bailout’ The Democratic Party looks to build policy around the interests of its educated elite voters.
2020-11-29 17:08:00 Opinion Deploying Big Data to Determine How Well Vaccines Work As the initial rollout starts, it’s time to start planning a registry to monitor health outcomes.
2020-11-29 17:06:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: Trump ‘The problem for Trump’s reelection was not that his response was too anti-lockdown and loosey-goosey. On the contrary.’
2020-11-29 16:18:00 Opinion Venezuela’s Guide to Election Theft Americans have a legal path when a vote is disputed. Chávez denied all recourse.
2020-11-29 16:16:00 Opinion How to Stop the Paris Climate Accord Trump should submit it for the Senate to ratify, or rather reject.
2020-11-29 15:54:00 Business Black Friday Was a Bust for Many Stores, Better for Online Foot traffic plunges by half amid coronavirus pandemic while online sales jump; consumers turn to Amazon and big-box chains that offer one-stop shopping
2020-11-29 15:14:00 World Ethiopia’s Tigray Group, Once Powerful, Now Battles Government Forces in Bid for Survival Deepening conflict has led to hundreds of civilian deaths and displaced tens of thousands as some analysts fear the country could slide into civil war
2020-11-29 15:04:00 World White House Aide Kushner to Hold Talks in Saudi Arabia, Qatar Focus of talks expected to be on mending rift between Qatar and other Arab states, officials say
2020-11-29 15:00:00 Life & Arts How Transit Agencies Are Trying to Make Your Commute Safe Masks, social distancing and public-private partnerships can help mass transportation systems weather the impact of the Covid pandemic
2020-11-29 15:00:00 Economy Economy Week Ahead: November Jobs Report, Trade, Manufacturing Data out this week is likely to show the U.S. labor market continuing to heal slowly
2020-11-29 14:59:00 World French Police Officers Face Assault Charges in Beating of Black Music Producer Prosecutors want three of the accused to stay in jail as probe determines if trial should take place
2020-11-29 14:56:00 Books ‘Inferno’ Review: From Hell-Raiser to Hero For once in his error-prone life, an airman does everything right—as his bomber is consumed by fire and a crashing landing seems inevitable.
2020-11-29 14:42:00 Opinion Can Republicans Regroup on Health Care? The party needs to address its biggest policy vulnerability.
2020-11-29 14:41:00 Opinion Team Obama’s Iran Illusions Its gurus have learned nothing in their years out of power.
2020-11-29 14:40:00 Opinion The Election Lost in Pennsylvania Court She was up by four votes, until the state Supreme Court ruled.
2020-11-29 12:53:00 Opinion Another Bold Strike Against Iran The killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh demonstrates Israel’s capabilities and constrains Biden’s options.
2020-11-29 12:52:00 Opinion Beware the Dow 30K Euphoria The market always dives en route to long-term rises. And tech stocks look wobbly.
2020-11-29 12:22:00 World India’s Farmer Protests Challenge Modi’s Market Deregulations Prime minister’s push to overhaul agricultural markets in an effort to boost growth meets resistance
2020-11-29 12:00:00 U.S. State, Local Governments Slashed Spending After Covid. Next Year Could Be Worse. After drawing on reserves and federal aid, Kansas City leaders cut staff, turn off the city’s fountains and brace for 2021
2020-11-29 10:58:00 Opinion School’s Out, But It’s Not About the Children The decision to close schools in New York is far from a “data-driven, science-driven” decision.
2020-11-29 10:57:00 Opinion Bad Polling and the Accuracy of Predictions Guesses by political pollsters, the CBO, the World Health Organization or the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change deserve the same assumption of scientific accuracy that a forecast for weather a week from now deserves.
2020-11-29 10:55:00 Opinion Actors’ Equity Errs; More Eyeballs Build Demand Equity Association is ignoring a fundamental marketing insight that was demonstrated in Chicago by the contrasting views of William Wirtz (Chicago Blackhawks) and P.K. Wrigley (Chicago Cubs).
2020-11-29 10:00:00 Markets Platinum Draws Investors as Gold Rally Stalls Disruptions caused by the pandemic are expected to lead to the largest shortage of platinum on record
2020-11-29 09:18:00 Life & Arts The NFL’s Thanksgiving Weekend Has Become a Covid Crisis The league will shut down for two days to regroup from a weekend in which top teams were sidelined, a local government rendered the San Francisco 49ers homeless and the Denver Broncos played without a quarterback
2020-11-29 09:00:00 U.S. Restaurant Holdouts Defy Covid-19 Shutdown Orders Rising coronavirus cases pose new threat to battered restaurant businesses
2020-11-29 08:00:00 U.S. Biden Plans to Roll Back Trump-Era Education Policies President-elect wants to expand resources for public schools and reinstate several civil-rights guidelines that were rescinded
2020-11-29 08:00:00 Shipping Matters Britain Braces for Logistics Havoc as Brexit’s Final Act Looms Customs checks, tariffs and more paperwork are coming after Jan. 1, and shipping specialists expect rattled supply chains
2020-11-29 07:34:00 World Australia Threatens WTO Action Against China as Trade Row Intensifies Australian barley exports to China have mostly stopped after Beijing imposed tariffs in May
2020-11-29 07:00:00 Life & Arts Do You Have E-Charisma on Zoom? Here’s How to Get It The flair and charm that works for in-person meetings doesn’t come across the same way on a video chat; ‘E-charisma involves a completely different set of skills’
2020-11-29 07:00:00 Business Pharmacies Add Freezers, Train Staff to Handle Covid-19 Vaccination Drive Retailers are preparing to administer coronavirus shots, but many guidelines remain uncertain
2020-11-29 05:30:00 Markets Tesla’s S&P 500 Debut Is Set to Put $100 Billion in Trades in Motion Asset managers and trading desks will be scrambling next month to account for the market juggernaut
2020-11-29 05:30:00 Economy Disparity in Jobless Rates Suggests Black Workers Face Slower Recovery For Black Americans to have the same job prospects as whites, they often need to hold more-advanced credentials
2020-11-28 21:14:00 Politics Pennsylvania High Court Rejects Lawsuit Challenging Election Justices throw out a lower court’s order preventing state from certifying dozens of contests
2020-11-28 20:00:00 World Iran Vows to Avenge Slain Nuclear Scientist, Says It Won’t Be Lured Into Conflict Tehran accuses Israel of trying to sow chaos as it weighs possible diplomatic re-engagement with the Biden administration
2020-11-28 19:51:00 World Former Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh Dies at 46 From Injuries Connected to House Fire The Harvard-educated son of immigrants was a pioneer of e-commerce and well known for his quirky management theories and customer obsession
2020-11-28 18:28:00 Life & Arts Vanderbilt’s Sarah Fuller Achieves College Football Milestone With Kickoff Soccer goalkeeper becomes first woman to play a down of football in one of the five major conferences
2020-11-28 13:43:00 World In France, Thousands Protest Macron’s Effort to Restrict Images of Police Demonstrations are a test of civil liberties in an era of coronavirus-linked curbs
2020-11-28 13:00:00 WSJ. Magazine The Perfect Garden Home You’ve Been Dreaming of All Year Landscape and garden designer Luciano Giubbilei finds a new creative retreat in the former home of a Mallorcan country potter.
2020-11-28 12:23:00 World Ethiopian Forces Launch Offensive on Tigray Capital Shelling begins in Mekelle, moving the three-week conflict into a new phase that could destabilize the wider region
2020-11-28 12:07:00 U.S. Texas Attorney General’s Legal Woes Potentially Hinder Google Case Republican Ken Paxton has been accused by some former staffers of illegally using office to benefit donor
2020-11-28 12:01:00 Life & Arts After Covid-19, Broadway’s Next Comeback It won’t be easy, but New York theater will recover from the current shutdown—just as it weathered the Depression, the AIDS crisis and 9/11.
2020-11-28 11:00:00 Business Solar Power Booms in Texas The state, a leader in wind energy, will be home to the nation’s largest solar farm, part of an expected surge in development
2020-11-28 10:02:00 Markets The Economy Is Still Vulnerable. Trade Could Be a Refuge. Exporters are recovering strongly even as domestically focused services industries suffer amid Covid-19’s resurgence
2020-11-28 09:03:00 Markets Stocks Say Covid Recovery Is Nigh. Bonds Tell a Different Story. All-important Treasury market is a holdout in reflecting increased economic optimism from Covid-19 vaccine news
2020-11-28 08:00:00 Tech Tesla’s Delayed Semi Truck Tests Elon Musk’s Ability to Scale Up Silicon Valley car maker set bar higher after the pandemic hardly dented growth plans
2020-11-28 07:00:00 Opinion Dave Brubeck, Beyond ‘Take Five’ Born 100 years ago, the pianist and composer found immense success melding musical classicism with polyrhythmic experiment.
2020-11-28 07:00:00 Film Review Federico Fellini: Iconically Italian A new collection of the auteur’s films from Criterion celebrates the humor, compassion and style that make his work unforgettable.
2020-11-28 06:00:00 Life & Arts This Doctor Elevated His Yoga Practice—20 Feet Off the Ground A chance encounter with aerial silks helped Dr. Robert Sullivan build his core strength and overcome his fear of heights
2020-11-28 05:33:00 World Biden’s NATO Amity Sparks Debate Among European Allies President-elect’s reassurance of the U.S.’s commitment to NATO has prompted disagreements among Europe’s leaders
2020-11-28 05:30:00 Politics States Explored Litigation to Challenge U.S. Policy on Climate Change Options included getting courts to require federal action to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, documents show
2020-11-28 05:30:00 Politics Biden Aims to Appoint Liberal Judges After Trump’s Conservative Push President-elect will seek nominees who see robust role for judiciary in addressing national problems, protecting individual rights
2020-11-28 05:30:00 Markets Pausing Loan Payments During Coronavirus Is Producing Uneven Results Federal relief programs for mortgages and student loans were relatively easy to get and flexible. Programs for credit cards, auto and personal loans were more happenstance.
2020-11-28 05:30:00 Business China Is Ready to Restart Cruises, but Big Companies Are Left Out Royal Caribbean and Carnival spent the past decade carving out China’s cruise market, but can’t yet participate in its revival
2020-11-27 22:19:00 Politics Milwaukee County Vote Recount Gives Biden Small Boost A conservative group in Wisconsin has already filed a lawsuit against election officials, seeking to block the state’s certification of results
2020-11-27 18:32:00 Opinion Who Is an American ‘Person’? The Supreme Court considers the Census and undocumented immigrants.
2020-11-27 18:28:00 Opinion Home Is No Haven for Iran’s Regime The killing of a top nuclear scientist dramatizes the ayatollahs’ domestic vulnerability.
2020-11-27 18:27:00 Opinion Biden, Iran and the Bomb Will he throw away Trump’s Mideast gains to return to a bad nuclear deal?
2020-11-27 18:24:00 Opinion Edward P. Lazear A pioneer in labor economics and a Journal contributor.
2020-11-27 18:23:00 Opinion The Social Media Fact-Check Farce A study says Twitter’s anti-Trump ‘corrections’ make some people more likely to believe Trump.
2020-11-27 18:21:00 Opinion When the Experts Fail, Everyone Else Pays the Price What happens when the most respected authorities get it wrong and ruin lives and economies? Not much.
2020-11-27 18:20:00 Opinion Covid Was Hiding Among Colds and Flus Too much focus on Washington and magic fixes has impeded grass-roots adaptation.
2020-11-27 18:19:00 Opinion Notable & Quotable: Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock ‘I fully acknowledge that I have urged everyone to stay home and avoid unnecessary travel.’
2020-11-27 18:16:00 Opinion Nobody Knows I’m a Bad Chess Player Online games are always available at any skill level—even none whatsoever.
2020-11-27 18:09:00 Business Salesforce, Delta Air Lines, Best Buy: Stocks That Defined the Week Here are seven major companies whose stocks moved on the week’s news
2020-11-27 18:09:00 Politics House to Vote on Booting Chinese Stocks From U.S. Over Audit Rules Alibaba, other companies could be forced to relocate listings overseas
2020-11-27 18:05:00 Opinion Hispanic Trump Voters Annoy Obama The former president is still working on an explanation.
2020-11-27 17:46:00 Business United Begins Flying Pfizer’s Covid-19 Vaccine Carriers are positioning doses for quick distribution if vaccines are approved by regulators
2020-11-27 17:37:00 Books ‘Veblen’ Review: Scourge of the Elites His critique of wealth struck a chord in a progressive era, and to some still does.
2020-11-27 17:35:00 Books ‘Big Girl, Small Town’ Review: Salt of the Earth The Troubles may be over, but Michelle Gallen’s heroine has problems all her own.
2020-11-27 17:34:00 Books ‘Time’s Monster’ Review: Empire of the Historians Does academic history always serve the ends of the powerful?
2020-11-27 17:31:00 Books Politics: Partisan Media and the Talk-Radio Revolution How a generation of populist broadcasters brought conservative ideas to a national audience.
2020-11-27 17:20:00 World Iran Says Its Top Nuclear Scientist Killed in Attack Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was widely regarded as the father of the country’s nuclear-weapons program
2020-11-27 17:05:00 Pro PE People Vista’s Sheth Resigns Weeks After CEO Smith Settles Tax Probe Brian Sheth left the technology investor barely a month after the yearslong tax investigation of Robert Smith ended
2020-11-27 16:53:00 Opinion Noonan Focuses on the Wrong Bogus Dispute I find Peggy Noonan’s concerns about the damage to our Republic to be about four years too late.
2020-11-27 16:49:00 Opinion American Idealism in Practice and Theory That “collective security and collective endeavors were in each nation’s self-interest” should be obvious to all.
2020-11-27 16:48:00 Opinion Trump at Least Tried to Get China, North Korea Deals President Trump has been adamant about leveling the playing field and requiring foreign countries like China to play the trading game fairly and honestly.
2020-11-27 16:16:00 Life & Arts Lamar Jackson Tests Positive as the Ravens Outbreak Tests the NFL Baltimore’s game against the Pittsburgh Steelers was already postponed, and getting the game in shows the high-wire act of smoothly finishing the NFL season
2020-11-27 15:31:00 Pro Bankruptcy Hertz to Sell Donlen Fleet Business to Athene for $875 Million Bankrupt rental-car company plans to use proceeds from the proposed sale to pay down debt
2020-11-27 15:25:00 World Secret Meeting in Desert Between Israeli, Saudi Leaders Failed to Reach Normalization Agreement Saudi crown prince backed away from U.S.-brokered deal to solidify bulwark against Iran
2020-11-27 15:24:00 World Video of Police Beating Black Music Producer Roils France Government plans to appoint commission to review bill restricting publication of images of law enforcers
2020-11-27 15:19:00 Markets Oil Prices Seen Remaining Subdued Into 2021 Next week’s meeting of OPEC and its partners may drive the market in the short-term
2020-11-27 14:43:00 Politics Court Denies Trump Campaign’s Appeal in Pennsylvania Ballot Challenge Ruling strikes latest blow to president’s efforts to overturn his defeat, saying claims lack merit and would cause ‘drastic and unprecedented’ voter disenfranchisement
2020-11-27 14:32:00 Life & Arts Shurabet El Eid (Holiday Soup) Even scaled-down celebrations call for exceptional spice and color. Paprika-rubbed roast chicken, pomegranate-flecked wheat berry pudding and more will satisfy a small gathering with outsize expectations.
2020-11-27 13:58:00 Life & Arts Designer Philippe Starck Finds Inspiration in the Uncanny Paintings of Neo Rauch Mr. Starck, whose designs range from chairs to a space station lounge, finds the work of Mr. Rauch ‘fertile soil’ for his imagination.
2020-11-27 13:46:00 Opinion The Constitution Will Survive Covid-19 The pandemic may justify extraordinary measures, but judges won’t accept the most draconian ones.
2020-11-27 13:44:00 Life & Arts Kubbeh Maqliyeh (Fried Kubbeh) Even scaled-down celebrations call for exceptional spice and color. Paprika-rubbed roast chicken, pomegranate-flecked wheat berry pudding and more will satisfy a small gathering with outsize expectations.
2020-11-27 13:44:00 Opinion Hunting Aims for a Comeback in Locked-Down Michigan The state has seen a 67% increase in new hunters prowling the forests this year—me among them.
2020-11-27 13:37:00 Life & Arts Burbara (Wheat Berry Pudding) Even scaled-down celebrations call for exceptional spice and color. Paprika-rubbed roast chicken, pomegranate-flecked wheat berry pudding and more will satisfy a small gathering with outsize expectations.
2020-11-27 13:21:00 Business Mirror Entrepreneur Sold Her Fitness Startup to Lululemon. Letting Go Meant Sticking Around. When Brynn Putnam sold her company for $500 million, she couldn’t walk away from what she created. She joins a list of prominent entrepreneurs who cashed in without checking out.
2020-11-27 13:19:00 Autos Industry GM Plans to Seek Banking Charter to Grow Auto-Lending Business Auto maker could file paperwork with federal and state regulators as soon as next month
2020-11-27 13:16:00 Opinion Fireworks Over Religious Liberty The Supreme Court says Cuomo’s restrictions on worship violate the First Amendment.
2020-11-27 12:00:00 Risk & Compliance Journal Bean Counters No More, Internal Audit Embraces Broader Risk Advisory Role Internal auditors are helping companies better manage an array of nonfinancial risks, the head of the Institute of Internal Auditors says
2020-11-27 12:00:00 Life & Arts The Resurrection of the Office Phone Call The Covid pandemic has brought back an old mode of communication that millennial workers used to shun; a happy medium between Zoom calls and instant messages
2020-11-27 11:36:00 Markets OPEC, Russia Alliance Lean Toward Keeping Oil Cuts in Place Oil-price recovery has strengthened the case of those pushing to eventually return some shut-in production to the market
2020-11-27 11:33:00 Business Amazon Promises $500 Million in Holiday Bonuses for Front-Line Staff Employees working full time for all of December will qualify for a $300 payment
2020-11-27 11:16:00 Books Five Best: On Decline and Fall From Adrian Wooldridge, co-author of ‘The Wake-Up Call: Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix It.’
2020-11-27 11:15:00 Books Fiction: A Beast Fable in the City of Light Novels from Jane Smiley and Ellen Cooney, and a collection of short stories by Pergentino José.
2020-11-27 11:08:00 Books ‘Sometimes You Have to Lie’: Louise Fitzhugh’s Rebellion The creator of ‘Harriet the Spy’ was a literary outsider herself.
2020-11-27 11:07:00 Books ‘I’m Gonna Say It Now’ Review: Troubadour and Troublemaker The legacy of Phil Ochs’s folk-music rebellion lives on in words that still spark fires.
2020-11-27 11:00:00 Politics Trump’s Payroll-Tax Deferral Creates Predicament for Congress Options for lawmakers and Biden administration to ease looming squeeze on workers include tax forgiveness, longer payback periods
2020-11-27 10:57:00 Life & Arts The Census Predicament: Counting Americans by Race The racial and ethnic categories used by the U.S. Census obscure the changing ways we think about identity and assimilation.
2020-11-27 10:52:00 Markets Black Friday Is Big in Taiwan, but Why? The holiday shopping frenzy there isn’t hampered by coronavirus, but also isn’t prompted by a holiday
2020-11-27 10:12:00 Real Estate The Best Christmas Tree Ornaments From Catalogs—as Chosen by Design Pros We asked picky interior designers to look at mass-market retailers’ offerings—and select affordable holiday decorations they’d hang on their own trees
2020-11-27 10:00:00 Markets Women Do Talk Money, With Their Text Group Pandemic-related issues spur women to join group chats to talk about emergency funds and investing
2020-11-27 10:00:00 Politics Medicaid Enrollment Surge During Pandemic Leaves States Looking for Cost Cuts State leaders consider reductions in services and health-care benefits for low-income and disabled Americans as budget crises loom
2020-11-27 09:30:00 CFO Journal Wary of New Lockdowns, CFOs Stand Ready With Covid Contingency Plans Finance chiefs say they are better prepared to navigate inventory challenges and cost cuts than they were last spring
2020-11-27 09:01:00 Life & Arts The Best Salad Recipe to Get You Through the Winter When sunshine is in short supply, citrus arrives to save us. It lights up this refreshing salad anchored with salty slices of cured meat.
2020-11-27 09:00:00 Markets Investors Seek New Election Data Alternatives to polling include watching betting markets, voter-registration changes and social media
2020-11-27 09:00:00 Business Covid-19 Vaccine Studies May Suffer as Volunteers Consider Dropping Out People who believe they got a placebo during testing say they want to leave to get the real shots once they are approved
2020-11-27 08:38:00 Markets How Property Booms Eat Our Economic Future Growing body of research looking at U.S. and Chinese real-estate markets suggests long booms may drag on productivity of the economy
2020-11-27 08:20:00 World India’s GDP Shrinks as Covid-19 Keeps Stranglehold on One of World’s Largest Economies Once a powerful engine of growth, consumer spending has been choked off by pandemic that is keeping people at home
2020-11-27 08:19:00 Markets Slack, Moderna, Burlington Stores: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today U.S. stock futures edge higher
2020-11-27 08:04:00 Markets Dow, S&P 500 on Track to End Week Near Record Highs Major technology stocks are poised to breach fresh all-time highs Friday, with Nasdaq-100 futures pointing to extended rally
2020-11-27 08:00:00 Economy Florida’s Approval of $15 Minimum Wage Sets Up Battle in Other States Advocates prepare to take up state-by-state fights with federal increase in doubt
2020-11-27 08:00:00 Markets Covid-19 or Not, Here Vimeo Comes As business increasingly moves online, Vimeo should have investors tuning in, even once they are physically back at work
2020-11-27 07:19:00 World Covid-19 Infections Surge at One of World’s Largest Medical Glove Makers Factories and workplaces across Malaysia are battling coronavirus outbreaks, a sign that industrial settings can become vectors of contagion as global demand recovers
2020-11-27 07:00:00 Masterpiece Adventure in Ambiguity E.B.
2020-11-27 07:00:00 Markets Spotify Needs More Than a Cup of Joe Joe Rogan’s podcast, about to go exclusive, will need to deliver a big boost in paid users to justify the stock’s run
2020-11-27 07:00:00 Tech Next Step in Government Data Tracking is the Internet of Things U.S. Air Force experiments with monitoring peripherals—from autos to fitness trackers
2020-11-27 07:00:00 Tech Slack Missed Out on the Pandemic’s Zoom Boom, Leaving It Vulnerable Without a strong video offering, the workplace collaboration tech pioneer failed to wow investors
2020-11-27 07:00:00 Life & Arts Why Statement Coats Are the ‘Going-Out Tops’ of 2020 As we continue to socialize outside, standout outerwear is the priority this winter—what’s underneath doesn’t matter
2020-11-27 06:23:00 World After U.S. Push, EU Set to Target Human-Rights Violators Doubts remain over how widely the European Union will wield sanctions, despite projecting itself as a champion of human rights
2020-11-27 06:18:00 World Kim Jong Un Doesn’t Want a Fight With Biden for Now, South Korean Lawmakers Say North Korea sees negotiations with President-elect Joe Biden as potentially more difficult than with President Trump, South Korean intelligence officials tell lawmakers
2020-11-27 05:56:00 Life & Arts The Power of Wi-Fi 6 Is Here—But Do You Really Need It? With more devices populating homes, updating to a Wi-Fi 6 router could help improve everyone’s internet experience. That said, they don’t come cheap.
2020-11-27 05:30:00 Politics Renewable Energy Industry Readies Wish Lists for Joe Biden Associations representing solar and wind power push new administration to take immediate steps, many of which don’t require congressional action
2020-11-27 05:30:00 Markets Cars Are Going Digital, But Detroit Has a Long Road Ahead It will be awhile until car makers can reap the benefits of turning your next vehicle into a giant smartphone
2020-11-27 05:30:00 Markets The Stock Market and Derivatives Are Sending Different Signals The Dow soared back to a record this week, but Wall Street’s fear gauge also remains elevated
2020-11-27 05:30:00 Tech The Ultimate Guide to the Best (Yet Boring) Home Office Gadget Gifts Give the gift of work-from-home productivity, from laptop stands to USB-C dongles to 4K monitors
2020-11-27 05:21:00 World China Escalates Australia Trade Dispute With Wine Tariffs Australia calls a Chinese finding that its exporters are dumping cheap wine ‘erroneous in fact and in substance’
2020-11-27 04:38:00 Markets Spanish Lenders BBVA and Sabadell Abandon Merger Talks Breakdown demonstrates difficulties in getting deals done despite predictions of a wave of consolidation in European banking
2020-11-26 21:10:00 Markets The Dollar Is Weak. Investors Bet It Will Slide Even More. Forecasts assume Covid-19 recedes, encouraging investors to step back from the relative safety of U.S. assets
2020-11-26 19:00:00 Life & Arts Backcountry Skiing: A Beginner’s Guide to the Sport of Covid Winter You needn’t be a daredevil to go backcountry skiing—just willing to clomp up a hill. Around the U.S., several new spots are easing newcomers into a sport where utter seclusion is the whole point.
2020-11-26 18:09:00 Politics GOP Sees Georgia Senate Races as ‘Firewall’ After Trump’s Loss With president’s role uncertain, McConnell directs colleagues to aid effort to keep Senate in Republican hands
2020-11-26 18:00:00 Life & Arts Black Friday? What About Sock Friday? Cozy Holiday Gifts Make Comfy Return Amid a stubborn, stay-at-home pandemic, basic gifts outclass luxury items
2020-11-26 17:13:00 U.S. Supreme Court’s Ruling Blocking Cuomo’s Covid-19 Order Could Influence Other Cases Up to 20 lawsuits involving houses of worship could be affected by high-court decision
2020-11-26 16:56:00 World Mexico Arrests Alleged Mastermind of Massacre That Killed American Women and Children Capture of suspect in 2019 attack on members of breakaway Mormon community draws mixed response from relatives of victims
2020-11-26 14:58:00 Opinion A Speedy Recovery Depends on More Aid. Will Trump Deliver? The economy can’t wait until January for more help for states, businesses and the unemployed.
2020-11-26 14:57:00 Opinion Woke Capitalism in a Secular World Principles grounded in faith or existential commitment should guide companies.
2020-11-26 14:55:00 Books ‘Escape Artist’ Review: Great Expectations As a journalist in the early years of the 20th century, Harry Perry Robinson played eyewitness to many historical events. Does that make him ‘great’?
2020-11-26 14:51:00 Opinion The Truth About Chinese Bonds Beijing’s latest stab at financial reform is one of its riskiest.
2020-11-26 14:46:00 Markets German Prosecutors Examine Ernst & Young’s Role in Wirecard Collapse Prosecutors in Munich are assessing a report from Germany’s accounting watchdog, ratcheting up pressure on the audit firm
2020-11-26 14:22:00 World Ethiopian Forces Begin Decisive Battle in Tigray’s Capital Western officials call for immediate end to fighting between government and restive region
2020-11-26 13:37:00 World Ethiopia: What We Know About the War in the Tigray Region Conflict in the north of Africa’s second-most-populous nation is spreading across borders, threatening stability in a strategic region
2020-11-26 12:00:00 Gas Markets U.K.’s Centrica Seeks to Sell Liquefied Natural Gas Portfolio Possible sale, say people familiar with the matter, comes as natural-gas prices show renewed life after hitting a low in June
2020-11-26 11:52:00 Pro Bankruptcy Sycamore Bids $540 Million for Ann Taylor, Other Ascena Brands Private equity firm moves to acquire Ann Taylor, Lane Bryant, Loft and Lou & Grey stores out of bankruptcy
2020-11-26 11:15:00 Tech Amazon Web Services Hit by Outage Company says it has resolved issues with cloud-software programs in its region covering Eastern part of U.S.
2020-11-26 10:07:00 Tech Fly-Fishing the Ernest Hemingway Way A new fly-fishing heritage collection inspired by the ‘Old Man and the Sea’ author’s favored gear lets anglers cast lines like the legend
2020-11-26 10:00:00 Markets Offices and Malls Will Look Different After Covid-19 Commercial properties will be helped by a coronavirus vaccine, but long-term pressures may accelerate postpandemic
2020-11-26 10:00:00 Politics Social Media’s Liability Shield Is Under Assault There is growing pressure to revise Section 230 to make internet businesses more accountable for online content
2020-11-26 09:33:00 Real Estate How the Snail-Mail Renaissance Is Soothing Americans Tired of Zoom Isolated, stressed and weary of screens, people are reaching out with super-creative letters delivered by the U.S. Postal Service
2020-11-26 09:15:00 World With Baby Steps, Chinese Parents Test Strictness of the Two-Child Policy While Beijing hasn’t signaled it is ready to give up birth limits altogether, there are signs punishments have become less strict in some places; ‘one eye open, one eye closed’
2020-11-26 08:50:00 World South Korea’s Central Bank Says Covid-19 Rise Won’t Derail Economic Recovery Bank of Korea issues a brighter outlook, forecasting a 1.1% contraction this year rather than the 1.3% it had expected
2020-11-26 08:35:00 World In Italy’s South, War Zone Doctors Are Called to the Rescue Amid Covid-19 Upsurge Humanitarian group best known for assisting war and Ebola victims will help confront the crisis in Italy’s poorest region
2020-11-26 08:00:00 Politics Biden Has Early Chances to Show Allies His Global Trade Agenda Removing Trump’s tariffs, calling Group of 20 meeting among possible moves by new president
2020-11-26 08:00:00 U.S. Midwestern Governors Seek More Federal Covid-19 Aid for Businesses Restaurants and others, hit with new restrictions as virus surges, point to grim months ahead without financial help
2020-11-26 07:54:00 World Mexico Confirms Its Economy Rebounded in Third Quarter GDP expanded a seasonally adjusted 12.1% in the third period following a record 17% contraction in the previous quarter
2020-11-26 06:25:00 Economy Japan’s Stock-Playing Central Bank Racks Up $56 Billion Gain Bank of Japan under Haruhiko Kuroda scores after boosting investments at stock-market bottom, but some say he shouldn’t play the market so much
2020-11-26 05:30:00 Markets This Black Friday, Avoid Credit-Card Pitfalls Here’s how to be strategic with your pandemic holiday spending—and debt
2020-11-26 05:30:00 Markets Outside Monitors Urge Deutsche Bank to Quit Russia Monitors appointed by New York regulators told the German lender it should drop plans to expand in Russia and shut its business there
2020-11-26 05:06:00 Markets JD Health IPO Will Set Hearts Racing Investors have already paid up for competitors and the regulatory environment looks less fraught than for Ant
2020-11-26 04:45:00 Markets Shopping Mall Activists Score an Early Win The owner of the Westfield chain issued new bonds cheaply, but still needs to sort out its $35 billion debt load
2020-11-25 19:14:00 Opinion Hindu Nationalists’ Crazy Crackdown on ‘Love Jihad’ Converts will need special permission to marry someone of a different religious background.
2020-11-25 19:11:00 Opinion Justice for Michael Flynn Trump’s pardon for his onetime national security adviser rights a grievous wrong.
2020-11-25 19:11:00 Opinion Blessings in a Hard Year Among the unexpected gifts of 2020 is a newfound appreciation for people who keep America running.
2020-11-25 18:59:00 Opinion GM Drives in Political Reverse Mary Barra drops support for a Trump suit against California.
2020-11-25 18:28:00 CMO Today Facebook’s Latest Error Shakes Advertisers’ Confidence Company quietly told advertisers earlier this month that its ‘conversion lift’ tool, used to measure outcomes, overestimated some campaign results
2020-11-25 18:25:00 Economy U.S. Unemployment Claims Rose to 778,000 Last Week Worker filings for jobless benefits are down sharply from a peak of nearly seven million in late March
2020-11-25 18:16:00 Economy U.S. Consumer Spending Grows for Sixth Straight Month, Albeit Slower Consumer spending rose 0.5% in October while household income fell sharply
2020-11-25 17:50:00 World Maradona’s Death Prompts Outpouring of Grief in Argentina, World Soccer star was revered in his native land
2020-11-25 17:49:00 Risk & Compliance Journal U.S. Blacklists Militia, Leader for Alleged Human Rights Abuse in Libya The sanctions come as the U.S. uses sanctions as a tool to target corruption and alleged human rights abusers—a trend likely to continue under Biden
2020-11-25 17:26:00 Economy Fed Signals New Guidance Coming on Asset-Purchase Program Ways that purchases could be changed to provide more stimulus to the economy, if needed, were discussed
2020-11-25 16:52:00 Markets Justice Department Clears Intuit to Buy Credit Karma Credit Karma agreed to sell its tax-preparation business to Square to win antitrust approval
2020-11-25 16:41:00 Television Review ‘Empires of New York’ Review: Big Apple, Bigger Characters A docuseries looks at the outsize and era-defining personalities of Ivan Boesky, Donald Trump, John Gotti, Leona Helmsley and Rudolph Giuliani in 1980s New York.
2020-11-25 16:34:00 Film Review ‘Zappa’ Review: A Rock Star Savant A compelling documentary delivers a comprehensive portrait of provocative musical polymath Frank Zappa.
2020-11-25 16:32:00 Television Review ‘The Flight Attendant’ Review: Taking Off From Reality A flight attendant struggles to return to the real world after waking up in a hotel room in Thailand and discovering a grisly scene.
2020-11-25 16:22:00 Business The Covid-19 Vaccine: When Will It Be Available for You? First U.S. rollouts of doses could start in December, but health-care workers, older Americans likely to take priority over general population
2020-11-25 15:25:00 Deals Salesforce Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Slack Technologies A deal would likely value Slack at more than $17 billion and mark Salesforce’s largest acquisition ever
2020-11-25 14:06:00 Markets Propane Is Cheap. Go Ahead, Buy a Patio Heater. Fortunately for those heating outdoor spaces during the Covid-19 pandemic, the U.S. has an ample propane supply
2020-11-25 13:30:00 Markets Covid Won’t Steal Christmas This holiday shopping season will be different, but there will be shopping
2020-11-25 13:20:00 Markets Department of Labor Regulation for Retirement Plans Is Now in Limbo Delays on proposed fiduciary rule have made it vulnerable to being scrapped under Biden administration
2020-11-25 13:17:00 Business There Are More Female CEOs Than Ever, and Many of Them Are in Retail Lauren Hobart’s appointment to helm of Dick’s Sporting Goods brings number of women running Fortune 500 companies to a record
2020-11-25 13:17:00 World Saudi Women’s Rights Activist Championed in the West to Face Terrorism Charges Loujain al-Hathloul became a focus of Western attention after her arrest in 2017
2020-11-25 13:08:00 World China’s Xi Congratulates Biden Weeks After Other Leaders Message, coming after Trump said administration will cooperate with transition, underlines Beijing’s desire to stabilize the relationship
2020-11-25 13:04:00 Life & Arts Recipes for a Smaller Holiday Meal With Big Flavor Even scaled-down celebrations call for exceptional spice and color. Paprika-rubbed roast chicken, pomegranate-flecked wheat berry pudding and more will satisfy a small gathering with outsize expectations.
2020-11-25 12:56:00 Logistics Report GE Appliances Turns Up the Speed on Supply-Chain Upgrade Coronavirus-driven disruptions in demand and production added urgency to an effort aimed at building visibility and flexibility
2020-11-25 12:46:00 Opinion Thanksgiving and the American Character A former colleague’s exploration of the great holiday.
2020-11-25 09:33:00 World European Powers Won't Push Biden for Swift U.S. Return to Iranian Nuclear Deal There is growing concern about Iran’s nuclear research, but European diplomats say they don’t want to rush new U.S. president to re-enter pact
2020-11-25 09:33:00 Experts Blog Why You Shouldn’t Ask a Charity How It Spends Your Donation
2020-11-25 09:23:00 Economy Global Trade Stages Rapid Recovery Led by China, the rebound in exports and imports of goods has been much quicker than in the aftermath of the global financial crisis
2020-11-25 09:20:00 WSJ Logistics Report Today’s Logistics Report: Building Vaccine Supply Chains; Delivery’s Uphill Climb; Farming Looks Up Today’s Top Supply Chain & Logistics News from WSJ
2020-11-25 07:59:00 World China Drugmakers Face Pressure to Prove Their Covid-19 Vaccines Work The companies haven’t released results of late-stage trials while data from Western drugmakers show three candidates to be highly promising
2020-11-25 07:36:00 Business Exxon Documents Reveal More Pessimistic Outlook for Oil Prices The oil giant has lowered its expectations for prices for much of the next decade, internal documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal show
2020-11-25 06:24:00 Markets Regulatory Pressure Mounts on Coal Miner that Rattled China’s Bond Market Investigation into state-owned Yongcheng Coal is escalated to country’s securities regulator
2020-11-25 06:02:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Bank Application Boost, Emerging Market Rebound, Vacation Gift Ideas
2020-11-25 05:40:00 Markets Behind Dow 30000: A Self-Perpetuating Upward Spiral Low interest rates and a buy-the-dip mantra have put stocks in an ascending pattern, defying the pandemic and economic woes
2020-11-25 05:34:00 World Europe Doubles Down on Data Protection to Ward Off Silicon Valley, Chinese Influence New EU proposal aims to offer protections for corporate and public-service data as GDPR covers individuals
2020-11-25 05:30:00 CIO Journal Climate Researchers Enlist Big Cloud Providers for Big Data Challenges Amazon, Google and Microsoft increasingly are providing the computing muscle scientists need to glean insights from vast stores of climate data
2020-11-25 05:30:00 CFO Journal Coca-Cola CFO Helps Company Make Cuts, Operational Changes The beverage giant is reducing the number of its brands and shrinking head count
2020-11-24 18:58:00 Opinion The Transition Begins But it’s still worth knowing what happened in Pennsylvania.
2020-11-24 18:14:00 Economy Yellen Will Confront a Cooling Economic Recovery, Uncertain Stimulus Prospects President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to head Treasury will need to forge a broad consensus on measures to maintain growth as virus cases rise
2020-11-24 18:07:00 Business What Questions to Ask in a Job Interview
2020-11-24 17:58:00 Books ‘Philanthropy’ Review: Thanks to the Givers Criticizing the wealthy for do-goodism is an old sport. Yet who but they are willing to put money behind activities that lack public support?
2020-11-24 17:56:00 CFO Journal Sealed Air Names New Finance Chief as Incumbent’s Contract Nears End The packaging company hires Christopher J. Stephens to take over its finances
2020-11-24 17:54:00 Opinion Media Hysteria Is the Trump Show Every election must end but a queasy feeling lingers in our mail-in experiment.
2020-11-24 17:49:00 Opinion The Political Class’s Hypocrisy Long Predates Covid-19 Cuomo’s Thanksgiving troubles remind me of an encounter years ago at Reagan National Airport.
2020-11-24 17:20:00 World U.S., Other Foreign Donors Pledge Billions in Aid to Afghanistan Kabul draws about $3 billion in pledges for 2021, depending on progress of peace talks with Taliban
2020-11-24 17:04:00 Risk & Compliance Journal JPMorgan Chase Unit to Pay $250 Million Penalty Over Poor Internal Controls Regulator cites bank’s weak risk-management practices and an insufficient framework for avoiding conflicts of interest
2020-11-24 16:50:00 Economy Upbeat Investors Look Past Covid-19, Related Woes Dow industrials close above 30000 for first time on hopes vaccines will set scene for economic recovery
2020-11-24 15:15:00 Life & Arts Are Some Wines Simply Impossible to Pair With Food? Our wine columnist took on some notoriously unpairable wines, attempting to find a happy match. With persistence and some professional advice, she made a few discoveries.
2020-11-24 15:14:00 Markets Accelerating Rally in Oil Prices Signals Optimism About Global Growth U.S. crude-oil hits highest level since early March following sixth gain in seven sessions
2020-11-24 12:29:00 Opinion Republicans Are Souring on Trump’s Antics Mitch McConnell should join colleagues urging the president to accept his loss.
2020-11-24 11:28:00 World India Bans More Chinese Apps as Part of Its Digital Campaign to Pressure Beijing Tensions continue to simmer between two countries following deadly border clash earlier this year
2020-11-24 10:32:00 Economy Consumer Confidence Dropped in November Amid Rising Covid-19 Cases Conference Board index falls to 96.1 this month as Americans’ outlook on the U.S. economy darkened
2020-11-24 09:53:00 Markets Covid Vaccine Hopes Send Record Funds to Emerging Markets Money managers look to life after Covid-19, betting on a big rebound in emerging economies
2020-11-24 09:10:00 Economy U.S. Home-Price Growth Accelerated in September Index of average home prices in major metropolitan areas rose 7% in year ended in the month
2020-11-24 08:13:00 Deals McCormick Buys Hot-Sauce Maker Cholula Seasonings company pays $800 million to private-equity firm L Catterton for the brand
2020-11-24 08:00:00 Tech Why Boys Are More at Risk of Falling Behind During Remote School Distractions and lack of motivation while learning at home might be hurting boys more than girls—and researchers say that could widen the gender achievement gap
2020-11-24 08:00:00 Real Estate U.K. Tax-Refund Repeal Is a New Headache for Retail Property Owners Business leaders worry that tourists will abandon London for other European shopping destinations
2020-11-24 07:30:00 CMO Today Salesforce Puts Money Into AppsFlyer The company, which says it is now valued at $2 billion, sells mobile analytics software that weighs the effectiveness of ad campaigns
2020-11-24 07:00:00 New Energy Capital Sees Renewable-Energy Incentives Gaining Under Biden The solar power investor expects the new president to extend incentives for renewable energy sources
2020-11-24 06:02:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Love and Money, Teens and Family Spending Moves, Rental ‘Nesting Fever’ Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2020-11-24 05:30:00 CIO Journal Coronavirus Pandemic Helps Speed More CIOs Toward Business Operations Accountability Chief information officers working in large, traditional enterprises will effectively become, as Gartner calls it, “COO by proxy”
2020-11-24 05:30:00 Business Some Peloton Buyers Are Sick of Waiting Demand is straining company’s supply chain, causing monthslong waits and customer defections to Bowflex bikes and NordicTrack treadmills
2020-11-24 05:30:00 Real Estate Stock-Market Titans Amazon, Google and Facebook Are Also Driving Commercial Real Estate Tech’s soaring property demand has been mostly a boon for cities, although it has fueled some concerns over rising rents and gentrification
2020-11-24 05:30:00 Tech Best Tech Gifts 2020: Our Favorite Gadgets From smart steam ovens and self-lighting candles to the best phones, laptops and headphones to buy, it’s the WSJ Personal Tech team’s annual list of tested, recommended products
2020-11-23 19:30:00 Markets BlackRock to Buy Equity-Index Provider Aperio for $1 Billion The all-cash deal is a move to add more personalization to its offerings
2020-11-23 19:14:00 Business Apple Security Chief Offered iPads to Police as a Bribe for Gun Permits, Prosecutors Allege Thomas Moyer denies allegations that he agreed to give the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office 200 iPads in exchange for four concealed carry licenses for Apple employees
2020-11-23 18:15:00 Books ‘Noble Volunteers’ Review: The Men Beneath the Red Coats Few caricatures from the American Revolution are as well-developed as that of the soldier who fought for Britain.
2020-11-23 16:54:00 Pro Bankruptcy U.S. Found Not Liable for Puerto Rico Bond Losses A Washington judge rules against bondholders seeking to hold Uncle Sam responsible for losses on a $3 billion bond
2020-11-23 16:00:00 Pro Bankruptcy Beyond Bankruptcy Regal Cinemas Owner Lands Financial Lifeline, Averting Bankruptcy Cineworld obtains a $450 million loan and other debt relief
2020-11-23 13:17:00 Tech Holiday Gift Ideas for Tech and Gear Fans—From Nintendo Collectibles to Smart Earbuds These under-$300 presents are clever and practical enough to be put to good use before the clock strikes midnight on 2020
2020-11-23 12:11:00 World What’s in Israel’s Deal With Bahrain and the U.A.E.? Pact marks third time Israel has reached diplomatic agreement with regional neighbors
2020-11-23 11:48:00 Business Cargill’s CEO on Preventing Covid-19 Surge From Disrupting the Food Supply David MacLennan discusses boosting employee safety while maintaining meat production, and why food-industry workers deserve priority vaccine consideration
2020-11-23 11:34:00 Economy U.S. Economic Activity Picks Up on Postelection Lift, Vaccine Results Europe falters as new lockdowns hit services industry hard
2020-11-23 09:59:00 Business Google Plans Fiber-Optic Network to Connect Via Saudi Arabia and Israel for First Time New fiber-optic network would connect the historical enemies and open a new corridor for internet traffic
2020-11-23 09:17:00 Politics For Trump and GOP, Risks in Postelection Fight Rise Undermining the legitimacy of a system that has benefited Republicans could leave president remembered more as a sore loser than consequential
2020-11-23 06:02:00 Moneybeat Blog WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Mortgages, Social Causes, Did America Tax Your Favorite Bordeaux? Curated news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients from WSJ reporters and columnists
2020-11-23 05:30:00 CFO Journal CFOs Adjust to Remote Due Diligence as Deal Making Soars Finance chiefs are reviewing company books, assets and facilities using virtual tours and digital collaboration platforms
2020-11-23 05:30:00 CIO Journal DHL’s Warehouse Management Business Makes It Easier to Onboard Robots Hub built by Blue Yonder removes need for custom software configurations at each warehouse
2020-11-23 05:30:00 Markets Bitcoin Trades Again Near Record, Driven by New Group of Buyers Cryptocurrency attracts billionaires Paul Tudor Jones and Stanley Druckenmiller plus momentum investors
2020-11-22 18:40:00 Real Estate CoStar to Buy Homesnap for $250 Million Purchase would mark the company’s first significant step into residential data
2020-11-22 16:38:00 Books ‘Vision or Mirage’ Review: Finding the Key to the Kingdom With a nuanced policy, American officials can encourage reform in Saudi Arabia without supporting its authoritarian tendencies.
2020-11-22 15:00:00 Economy Economy Week Ahead: Factories, Layoffs, Consumer Spending Surveys in the U.S., Europe are expected to indicate service-sector slowdowns amid new coronavirus restrictions
2020-11-22 10:00:00 Economy A Covid-19 Vaccine Could Unleash Pent-Up Demand, Bringing Along Inflation A return to pre-pandemic lives may bring a surge in spending, some analysts say
2020-11-21 12:00:00 Tech Four Reasons the Stay-at-Home Economy Is Here to Stay Even after a Covid-19 vaccine, changes to how we shop, dine, work out and entertain ourselves are likely to endure
2020-11-21 09:00:00 Markets How to Survive Pandemic Money Fights Amid Covid-19 crisis, advisers say they are helping couples better navigate financial turbulence by running numbers
2020-11-21 08:00:00 U.S. Economy Student Loan Losses Seen Costing U.S. More Than $400 Billion Projected toxic debt approaches subprime-mortgage losses incurred by lenders during financial crisis
2020-11-20 19:27:00 Economy PPP Borrowers Are Asked to Justify Need for Loans Over $2 Million Trade groups say agency is seeking disclosures that weren’t required when loans were first made
2020-11-20 18:34:00 Markets Zurich Insurance in Talks to Acquire MetLife’s Car, Home Insurance Unit Deal would be conducted through Zurich’s Farmers Group unit and expand its U.S. business
2020-11-20 17:25:00 World U.S. Considers Moving Forces Out of Somalia Relocation of 700 troops would shift course in Africa in waning weeks of Trump administration; move would follow troop cuts in Iraq, Afghanistan
2020-11-20 16:16:00 Logistics Report Maritime Regulators to Investigate Container Shortage Impact on U.S. Exporters The Federal Maritime Commission will probe shipping lines that agricultural exporters say are holding back containers needed to reach foreign markets
2020-11-20 14:15:00 Business How to Set Career Goals and Plan Out Your Professional Future
2020-11-19 19:23:00 Economy Mnuchin Declines to Extend Several Fed Emergency Lending Programs Fed’s corporate credit, municipal lending and Main Street Lending programs won’t be renewed
2020-11-19 18:27:00 Business BuzzFeed to Acquire HuffPost in Stock Deal With Verizon Media New-media companies have been exploring mergers as they try to jump-start growth
2020-11-19 10:14:00 World Turkey Lifts Rates After Erdogan’s Endorsement of Austerity Rate rise comes soon after the president signaled a change in approach on economic policy
2020-11-17 16:12:00 Business How to Build a Career Path in 3 Steps
2020-11-17 11:48:00 Experts Blog The Importance of Writing an Ethical Will–for You and to Those You Love
2020-11-17 09:00:00 Tech Apple’s M1 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Review: The Laptop’s Biggest Leap in Years Goodbye, loud fan noise, warm palm rests and multiple daily rechargings. Apple’s new chip fundamentally changes its 13-inch laptops.
2020-11-17 08:00:00 Tech Twitter Launches New ‘Fleets’ Feature for Posts That Disappear in 24 Hours Social media company is seeking more engagement from new, less experienced users
2020-11-16 10:20:00 Politics The Year of the Woman Really, Finally Did Arrive in 2020 As voters, as candidates and as campaign leaders, women were—and now are—in the driver’s seat as never before
2020-11-16 07:26:00 Business Companies Tiptoeing Back to the Office Encounter Legal Minefield White-collar workplaces face liability threats and complex compliance issues that until recently applied more to industrial settings
2020-11-14 10:35:00 World Opioid Deaths in Canada Were Falling, Then Came Coronavirus Public-health officials had made progress in curbing the death toll from overdoses, but lockdowns hindered users’ access to clinics and overdose-prevention sites
2020-11-14 05:30:00 Markets It’s Open-Enrollment Season. Is an HSA Still Right for You? Here’s how to run the numbers between high-deductible plans with HSAs and conventional offerings
2020-11-13 17:58:00 CMO Today JetBlue Explores Fresh Marketing for a Post-Pandemic World Airline seeks ad agency to help it put travelers back in seats
2020-11-11 12:18:00 Economy Biden, Beware: The Nationalist Moment Hasn’t Passed How president-elect handles trade, immigration and climate could soothe or inflame the backlash against globalization
2020-11-11 11:19:00 Tech Social-Media Companies Took an Aggressive Stance During the Election. Will It Continue? Platforms like Twitter and Facebook, which worked to slow the spread of misinformation, increasingly labeled posts during 2020 race
2020-11-05 14:04:00 Economics Blog Parsing the Fed: How the November Statement Changed From September
2020-11-01 11:00:00 World Two Dead in Quebec City Stabbing Rampage Police arrest mid-20s man on suspicion of killing two, injuring five others
2020-10-21 12:45:00 Experts Blog The Case for Delaying Social Security–Even if You Think Benefits Will Be Cut
2020-10-21 12:45:00 Experts Blog The Case for Delaying Social Security–Even if You Think Benefits Will Be Cut
2020-05-26 16:36:00 Markets Should We Forgive All Federal Student-Loan Debt? A debate between a proponent who says the government should fix the debt crisis it created, and an opponent who says high repayments rates suggest the program is working for most
2020-05-26 16:36:00 Markets Should We Forgive All Federal Student-Loan Debt? A debate between a proponent who says the government should fix the debt crisis it created, and an opponent who says high repayments rates suggest the program is working for most
2020-02-17 10:00:00 Markets People Don’t Save Enough for Emergencies, but There Are Ways to Fix That Small changes to company retirement plans can make a big difference
2020-02-17 10:00:00 Markets People Don’t Save Enough for Emergencies, but There Are Ways to Fix That Small changes to company retirement plans can make a big difference
2020-02-13 10:45:00 Markets When It Makes Sense to Review Your Will Estate plans should get a second look amid any significant financial changes in your life or changes in estate-tax law
2020-02-13 10:45:00 Markets When It Makes Sense to Review Your Will Estate plans should get a second look amid any significant financial changes in your life or changes in estate-tax law